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Iwas just curious how different players of different races setup their control groups 1-0 and F1-F1whatever. Post your race first, then your standard setup, feel free to discuss why if you like. For me:
Protoss
1 - Zealots, Sentries, Immortals, Stalkers, Archons
2 - Colossus
3 - High Templars or Phoenix/Void Ray if currently harassing (Stalkers if I'm currently Blink harassing, then I switch back)
4 - Nexuses
5 - Gateways/WarpGates
6 - Robotics Facilities
7 - Starports
8 - Forges
9 - Warp Prism/Observer
0 - Warp Prism/ Observer (0 goes to whichever one is mobile at the time and needs the most care)
F1 - Main Base
F2 - Natural
F3 - 3rd Base
F4 - 4th Base
F5 - Enemy Natural or closest expansion to me
F6 - Enemy Main
F7 - Dead Center of the map, or important Xel'Naga Watchtower
That's my standard setup, with group 3 changing the most (HTs for battles, or when harassing, DTs, Phoenixes, Void Rays, other air units, secondary army if flanking, etc). I consider 3 to be my versatile flex group, changing a lot based on what the situation calls for. Mid and lategame I ALWAYS keep an extra observer in group 1 with my "main army" for detection reasons.
So what about you guys? I'm curious to see everyone's different setups of different races and the reasons behind them.
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1 - main army (zealots, sentries)
2 - stalkers
3 - hts or obs
4 - robo/stargate
5- nexi
6 - obs
7 - whatever
8 - whatever
9 - rebound to W, general warpgate key unbound, this way my gates and warpgates can be on same hotkey at all times
0 - forges, tech, whatever
I don't use camera hotkeys, I just click on minimap, probably something I should work on.
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1- zealot/sentry/immortal
2- stalkers
3-collosi/ht or phoenix
4-nexus
5-robo
6- stargate
7- warp prism
8- obs
9- obs
0- nexus
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1- nexi
2- scouting probe then robos
3- all army
4- gateways then stargates
5,6,7,8,9,9- obs + whatever.
Control groups are way overated imo.
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Protoss
1 main army
2 stalker (if blink) or phoenix
3 ht/ collossi
4 stargate/robo
5 nexus
6 forge
7 obs
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I play terran 
1-Factory/Starport
2-Rax
3-CC
4,5,6- army
7,8,9,0- ebay,armory bla bla bla
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As Protoss
1- Nexus
2- Robos/Stargates
3 - Pheonix/Army
4-0 - other army
As Terran
1 - CC
2 - Rax/facts/Starports
3-6 - army
7-0 - any medvacs for dropping
As Zerg
1 - hatcheries
2 - Creep spreading queens
3-6 - army
7-0 - a hatch and a queen on each hotkey.
Army on 3-6 is so i can go 3a4a5a6a while pressing the "a" key with my pinky - much more comfortable than the usual 1a2a3a.
As zerg - queen injects are on "G" so I can press it with my pinky and go 77gClick88gClick99gClick00gClick - and inject everywhere really quickly.
As terran - unload is on "G" - so I can use the same hand position as with zerg injects but to unload units in several places at once.
I also use F keys for base positions and for proxy pylon as protoss.
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Mid - Late Game
1 - queens
2 - main army
3 - units that need my attention (mutas, infestors, etc.)
4 - hatcheries
5 - misc (usually overseers, or drops)
Early Game
1 - 1st OL
2 - scouting lings
3 - scouting drone / proxy hatch
4 - hatcheries
Anything past 5 feels uncomfortable to me, so I try to keep everything on the left side of the keyboard.
I have my queens on 1 because I have ~ set to "base camera". So when I inject I go ~, 1, V, hold shift, ~ click, ~ click, etc.
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1- Rax
2- CC
3- Facts
4- Starports
5-0 units
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1-CC
2-rax
3-SP
4- tanks (vikings in tvp)
5 -bio
6 -ghosts
f4- factory
I find it easier not to use anything above 6 as its hard to reach quickly.
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Protoss (main race):
1: entire ground army (minus HT)
2: stalkers
3: obs #2, later HT
4: obs #1
5: nexus
6: robo + stargate
7: forge + twilight
0 (tab): harass unit (warp prism, phoenix, etc)
In PvT trying to get in the habit of making the 1 hotkey more precise i.e. no stalkers or colossus in it, only zealot sentry immortal. Makes stalker + colossus vs viking dances less dangerous.
Terran (frequently played offrace):
Bio
1: MMM
2: vikings
3: ghosts
4: drop #1
5: orbitals
6: rax/factory/starport
7: ebay + armory
0 (tab): drop #2
Biomech
1: MMM
2: tanks
3: vikings
4: ghosts
rest the same
I wish I had the awareness/apm to control medivacs separately from marines/marauders but alas I don't 
F keys go to bases... base 1 = F1, base 2 = F2, etc
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As zerg:
1: Lings
2: Roach/hydras
3: Special units/harrass (this includes banes, muta's, infestors)
4: Overflow if 2 special units
5: SPARE
6: All hatches
7: All queens
0: Evo chambers
Also mapped "next base" to my mouse side wheel to quickly flick between each hatch. If I don't have any roach/hydra or any lings because of my build, all the army hotkeys move down one.
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Terran
1-bio
2-mech
3-command centres early game, and spellcasters(ghosts) late game
4-rax
5-fact
6-starport
0-cc's
Protoss
1-gateway units
2-robo/air units
3-nexus early game, spellcasters late game
4-gateways
5-robo
6-stargate
0-nexus
Zerg
1-ling/roach
2-spellcasters/bling
3-muta
4-all hatcheries
5-main hatch
6-first expo
7-second expo
For all races, F2-Main, F3-Expo, F4-2nd Expo
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i play zurg
`, 1, 2, 3 : army
4: all hatches
5: main
6: natural
7: third
8: fourth
etc
also remapped backspace to spacebar, generally i just cycle through this periodically to make sure my hatches have the little green eggs on them
i generally just use 1, 2 and 3 for my army for the majority of the game, but having the extra hotkey available makes tooling around with big lategame armies a little bit easier
i also don't hotkey my queens because im a boss
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I used to main Z in beta, and I never really saw a reason to hotkey my queens, since I cycled through my hatches constantly and the queens are usually sitting right next to them. I think as far as hotkeys go, or control groups rather, it seems a lot of people tend to have their main army on 1 and casters on 3. I think having CCs/Nexuses on 4 and Raxes/Gateways on 5 is very efficient, as well.
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I remapped almost everything 6 7 8 9 0 are E R F T X
my "lazy hands" setup :
1 - All CC
2 - All raxs
3 - All factores
4 - All starports
5 - Ebays/armory
E - main army (bio + medivacs)
R - siege tanks (TvZ) or ghosts (TvP), the R group is on following mode with E
F - Drop ship1
T - vikings
X - Drop ship2
F1-F4 : bases 1-4 (shift + Fkey for set camera location)
` : camera saving on my rally point (most of the time at natural) (set camera save is alt+`)
Trying to force myself to use everything for improve my mechanics
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Man I have such a bad hotkey setup haha
Protoss
middle mouse button - whole army
tab - mainly for phoenix and observers/warp prisms
1 - nexus
2 - robo
3 - stargate
~ - used when I have to split my army sometimes
I suppose I should use capslock as another hotkey but its really annoying having to make sure it's off whenever I want to speak. Is it possible to turn that off?
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Terran
` is rebound as my 0 key = ebays and armories
1 = army
2 = harass units (Banshees or hellions)
3 = other harass units or drop ships
4 = drop ships
5 = All CCs
6 = Barracks and Factories
7 = Starports
8 = Unused sadly
9 = Unused sadly
Protoss
` = 0 = Obs in their base
1 = army
2 = unused
3 = early game warp gates, then this gets redone differently each game
4 = warp prism
5 = nexuses (or is it nexii?)
6 = robo if no stargate, stargate if no robo
7 = stargate default
8,9 = unused
Zerg
My zerg is different
`= 0 = evo chambers
1 = all hatch
2 = all inject queens
3 = scout overlord
4 = main army
5 = mutas or infestors
6 = creep spread queen
7 = nydus network
8,9 = surprise, still unused.
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Protoss here
1- main army
2- hts
3- nexus
4- gateways
5- robo/stargate depending on what i am doing
6- obs
7- froge
8- any forward/proxy pylon
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Zerg :D
1 - Hatcheries
2 - Queens (For injects)
3 - Queens (For creep spread)
4 - Nydus (If I have one)
5 - Evo Chambers
6 - Sub-Army (mutas, infestors, other micro-able units)
7 - Main Army
8 - Sub-Army (mutas, infestors, other micro-able units)
9 - Any scouting unit (early game drone, overlords)
0 - Any building tech building (helps me remember to check on the progress of the building)
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