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Ploppytheman
Profile Joined April 2010
United States248 Posts
July 26 2010 14:44 GMT
#1
Ok so there are many different ways to get your units to attack from hold position, patrol, stop, and manually clicking. What is the best way (aka fastest) to do this? Are there even differences between them? Do certain units benefit more from certain commands? Any info esp regarding protoss would be nice. Thx.
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TheGreenMachine
Profile Joined March 2010
United States730 Posts
July 26 2010 15:03 GMT
#2
I prefer to right click, then A+click specific units for target firing while im kiting. Like if you are getting chased by a ton of zerglings you want to aim for the most efficient spot in the ball of lings. If you ran past a mineral line, pressed hold position, then theres a chance your hellions will just shoot each drone once which would be very wasteful.

If im micro'ing stimmed marauders ill just right click and A+click behind them to make them fire.

All this reminds me of my good old dota days :D
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FTemplar
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada70 Posts
July 26 2010 15:06 GMT
#3
It's probably not the fastest, but I do the following:

- Right-Click (Move)
- A+Left Click

(Repeat)
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shawabawa
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom417 Posts
July 26 2010 15:09 GMT
#4
On July 27 2010 00:06 FTemplar wrote:
It's probably not the fastest, but I do the following:

- Right-Click (Move)
- A+Left Click

(Repeat)

I do this, I find it's much easier to go from rightclick -> a-click to manually targeting than from rightclick -> h(or s).

Obviously manually targeting is the best if you're pro enough
philly5man
Profile Joined July 2010
United Kingdom356 Posts
July 26 2010 15:11 GMT
#5
On July 27 2010 00:06 FTemplar wrote:
It's probably not the fastest, but I do the following:

- Right-Click (Move)
- A+Left Click

(Repeat)


This is the way I do it too, although I'm sure that just using right click would be quicker and more useful if done correctly. The only problem with exclusively using right click is that you could have a nightmare if you click next to an enemy unit when you're saying to attack, as your army would just run towards them not attacking.
Corlag
Profile Joined June 2010
United States8 Posts
July 26 2010 15:23 GMT
#6
For my stalker blink micro I use right click move + s for stop, this allows for the most shots fired in the shortest amount of time. However, like others above me have stated, this relies on the AI to pick targets and almost always results in overkill in addition to not always picking the target you want.
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TSM
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Great Britain584 Posts
July 26 2010 15:27 GMT
#7
left click ahead of your victim and when the weapon cooldown nis finised right click the victim unit, that's mine but others may be different or better
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shawabawa
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom417 Posts
July 26 2010 15:31 GMT
#8
On July 27 2010 00:27 thespitfire wrote:
left click ahead of your victim and when the weapon cooldown nis finised right click the victim unit, that's mine but others may be different or better

That's really really risky, if you miss the right click on the victim you're just going to charge into them and take huge losses. You should a-click the victim if you're going to manually target because then even if you miss they'll still attack-move
Marou
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1371 Posts
July 26 2010 15:32 GMT
#9
depends the situation, if i'm kitting with few units (<= 5) i'll use right click move + right click on the unit i want to attack because these are the situation when you want badly to focus fire at one unit (example : vikings vs void rays).
The exeption is with marauders when you do often want them to shoot at all the units your kiting regardless of target priority in order to slow them all, in this case i use a+click the ground or hold position depending on my mood.

For large groups i always use a+click the ground since it's midgame and i have tons of things to macro that i can't already keep up doing correctly without focusing on kitting ^^
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25980 Posts
July 26 2010 15:52 GMT
#10
Fucking garbage thread.
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