Hopefully this video helps make clear that Ling-bane Micro isn't all about spamming your mouse really fast and practicing 8 hours-a-day. It's a lot about mechanical techniques that simplify the process and organising your troops properly.
Here's the notes that go along with my coaching of these points, I normally reserve them for paid coaching but I figure these are a great resource along with the video:
Really really like the point about spreading banes perpendicular vs parallel (to their direction of attack).
Also, when sending banes into their mineral line, watch out for well positioned queens and spines. If your banes all get caught on a mini wall before they get to the mineral lline and detonate on a queen, you're gonna have a bad time.
if you use ctrl to select banes and assign them to group 2, and THEN use ctrl+shift to ungroup them from group 1, you can do all the grouping from the UI directly, which is easier to not misclick.
as zerg, i don't think there's a reason not to group eggs directly to ctrl groups? i could be wrong
On March 14 2015 05:13 Incognoto wrote: if you use ctrl to select banes and assign them to group 2, and THEN use ctrl+shift to ungroup them from group 1, you can do all the grouping from the UI directly, which is easier to not misclick.
as zerg, i don't think there's a reason not to group eggs directly to ctrl groups? i could be wrong
I group all larva into their respective control groups (except overlords). One thing I've noticed is that it's difficult to split off small groups to defend drops when you're used to having all your lings on certain hotkeys. I guess that's somewhat true of hotkeys in general, but without larva hotkeyed you can sometimes grab lings that are at the spawn rally to use for such a task.
On March 14 2015 05:13 Incognoto wrote: if you use ctrl to select banes and assign them to group 2, and THEN use ctrl+shift to ungroup them from group 1, you can do all the grouping from the UI directly, which is easier to not misclick.
as zerg, i don't think there's a reason not to group eggs directly to ctrl groups? i could be wrong
Good point, whenever you can use the UI rather than on-screen it's much better, I've mainly just been doing (and teaching) it this way out of habit. I'll make sure to tell people to do it that way in future
As for eggs not directly in groups, only situationally when dealing with a lot of multi-prong/counterattacks or a basetrade at which point you want to be manually adjusting rally points and telling different units from different spawns to go in seperate directions.
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