[D]Patrol Micro to Avoid Clumping - Page 5

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nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

July 01 2010 20:26 GMT

#81

Good job on the OP! much appreciated.

Fyrewolf

United States1533 Posts

July 01 2010 20:39 GMT

#82

How can anyone think a poorly executed scatter is some earth-shattering great thing? It's useless if there are enemy units around because patrol is basically attack, so you can't use it to micro, which means you'll have plenty of time to actually position them right the regular way, which is both better and faster and more accurate for every single possible situation you would ever use it in. Patrol scattering is Useless.

The roach burrow on the otherhand isn't, but probably is difficult in large numbers. I like that during their cooldown when they can't do more damage, they regen some health underground. Kind of like dragoons or reavers using their cooldowns to advance on tanks or pop into shuttles. That kind of micro is actually good, squeezing some extra use from your units instead of just making them run like Tweedledee and Tweedledumb.

Vvarrior_

United States18 Posts

July 02 2010 03:58 GMT

#83

1. Running your drones away from hellions while moving/patrolling to keep them from clumps I imagine would be helpful. Has anyone ever watch replays where hellions roasts 6-10 drones in one shot cuz they are clumped ina line running away?

2. Quickly spreading out banelings to burrow them for baneling mines.
P then R is faster than selecting 2-3 groups, then moving them to spread them out, then burrowing.

Tried this with ultraling to see if it improves ultralisk pathing with lings, and it even gets worse. Ultralisk gets trapped inside the lings.

TDC

United States197 Posts

July 04 2010 16:49 GMT

#84

i think this is brilliant. i love how you discovered this and hopefully people can practice this and come up with a way to make this useful in the game, this might make SC2 a lot more micro intensive than it is right now if it can be used right

AncienTs

Japan227 Posts

July 04 2010 18:49 GMT

#85

the only drawback I would foresee is having a few rogue "patrollers" chase after the enemy if it's within aggression range. But this can be overcome with good control/ high APM i think.

can't wait to test this out in ladder-games... good work OP