[Q] Learning to Micro Ghosts - Page 2

On November 09 2011 05:51 NaturalHacks wrote:


yup or you can go into control panel>keyboard. turn your keyboard repeatdelay speed right down and your repeatspeed right up

On November 08 2011 13:54 theBOOCH wrote:
I'm a diamond Terran (have a feeling I'll be in Plat soon if I don't improve ...) Anyway, I also have an awful time with ghosts. I've just been messing around with them vs AI, and I've found that,

First) of course, you MUST have them on a different hotkey. They're toxic to your army, because you can't stim quickly. I always keep my army on 1 and the ghosts on 2. Pick a consistent key and stick to it. Luckily, 2-E is a really easy maneuver for me, with the fingers I use and such. Also, you need to treat them as a separate army in a way. You need to be able to pull back after you get EMPs down so you don't lose them, but you don't want them behind your army because they might not get the EMPs off on time.

Second) you CANNOT shift-queue EMPs or Snipes. It's risky and enefficient. If you give them a shift command before you EMP, you the risk of them following through with their move or attack command. This could mean they run right up to your opponents army before they EMP. Of course you could be really careful and make sure you hit shift AFTER you command them to cast their first EMP, but this seems to slow them down. I'm pretty sure this is because they won't cast their next EMPs until after the one preceding it has been fully cast because they are all commanded to cast the full queue of EMPs as a unit. So what you have to do is quickly hit E-click, E-click, E-click, etc. this gives each individual ghost a separate EMP command and they're move within rage and cast their EMPs individually. I might be wrong on this next part, but I think if you shift command and your first (closest) ghost is killed before it casts it's EMP, the next closest ghost will cast the first EMP where you told it to be cast and the whole queue will reset meaning you might miss your first mark (because it comes later) and any subsequent marks, but you are more guaranteed that that particular spot will be EMPd even if you lose a ghost or so (and any subsequent spots until your queue runs out or you are out of energy). Again, this last bit might be wrong, but I think that's how it works. Anyway, the point is, don't hold shift while you cast EMP or Snipe.

Third) Plan your attacks. Keep your army in a position that will be good for you to engage, like spread at the bottom of a ramp, with your ghost ready in range of your opponent or where your opponent will be, and fire your EMPs right when he gets into range (if you aim for the edge of his army, you'll get more if he's moving toward you). If you're attacking him, move just forward enough so that you're on the edge of your EMP range before casting (so that they'll cast with the least delay) and if you get them off well, stim in your army (and if they don't go down, don't run in!). (If you're caught off guard, I think it's best to stim and get you army in a good position before you EMP, but that's crisis management that's hard to plan. Either way, pull your ghosts back asap so you don't lose them.

Finally) Practice and get familiar with the ghosts. Know their range and how they respond. Open up a custom game and just spam EMPs. Get an idea of their radius (which is about to get smaller) and their range and how they act when queued and not queued.

Hope any of that helped! At least these are the rules that I'm following as I try to get better at using ghosts!

Cheers,
_theBOOCH