switching to UD and using subgroup order modifier key
I have decided to switch to Undead because I think it’ll be a little easier than Elf to quickly improve with. Undead seems more straight forward and Elf has a bunch of different strategies.. or maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about; regardless.
During this transition, I’ll be changing a couple big things. First, I have set my Warcraft to a lower resolution. I wanted to make the in-game screen size smaller as well (I have a 19″ monitor) but my ATI control panel settings are not cooperating, so I don’t know if my mouse accuracy will improve at all =\
Second, I will be using less control groups and better utilize subgroup order modifier key. For example, instead of having
Group 1: DK + fiends
Group 2: DK
Group 3: fiends
and selecting group 3 if I want to only move my fiends, I will tab to fiends in group 1 and use subgroup order modifier key (ctrl, SGOMK is Blizzard’s term) to issue a command only to the fiends. The benefits of using less groups are obvious I think. 12 unit limit is a minor annoyance I hope to get used to. Removing units from groups should be easier now, adding them was never a big problems since I discovered shift-adding.
For those unfamiliar with subgroup order modifier key, I guess I’ll cover it briefly. First you need to enable it in Warcraft’s gameplay options. After it is enabled, you can use the ctrl key to issue commands only to the active subgroup. Examples:
Situation: You have a group of DK and fiends selected. DK is the default active subgroup.
To move DK using right click, hold ctrl and right click on the map.
To attack a target with fiends using right click, hit tab once to select the fiends subgroup, hold ctrl and right click on the target.
To move fiends using move-click, hit tab once to select the fiends subgroup, hit either the on-screen move button or the key for move, hold ctrl and left click to target location.
Hope this helps someone.
Well its hard to get used to it at least for me but well i use “A” for attack.
Its good example: hum vs ne if u have sorcs/priest/mort in group 2.tab on mort ctrl and right click on dryads tab sorc ctrl rightclick on bears and tab priest to heal heroes and units.
Excellent stuff, I learnt about sub group modifier, but just recently understood the intricacies.
BTW. WHY UNDEAD?? I didn’t read the previous posts.
/fp
Wouldn’t you do battle micro with mostly mouse? AFAIK that’s how the fairly intensive battle micro is done in SC.
well, in SC the interface isn’t as good as WC.. but yeah you’re correct most of the ‘battle micro’ is on screen with mouse. my clicking accuracy has always been pretty bad and instead of working to address the issue I tried to compensate with many control groups, using a-click instead of right click, etc. and in retrospect that wasn’t a very good idea.