| decker247777 United States. March 19 2012 16:12. Posts 62 | Profile Blog # |
you use 5-0 as hotkeys to your hatches. when you have more units than 1-4 can hold you use the 5-9 hotkeys and have 0 on a hatch in your base so you can go back to macro relatively fast or use the f keys and replace 0 with units.
I recommend not listening to anyone who is saying drag and click also get used to rehotkeying your troops fast. it helps you control the midgame/lategame extremely wellLast edit: 2012-03-19 16:13:36 |
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| sM.Zik Canada. March 19 2012 22:39. Posts 1696 | Profile # |
On March 19 2012 16:12 decker247777 wrote:
you use 5-0 as hotkeys to your hatches. when you have more units than 1-4 can hold you use the 5-9 hotkeys and have 0 on a hatch in your base so you can go back to macro relatively fast or use the f keys and replace 0 with units.
I recommend not listening to anyone who is saying drag and click also get used to rehotkeying your troops fast. it helps you control the midgame/lategame extremely well
Although I agree with you with the fact that you should get used to re hotkeying your troops often, I disagree with using more than 1-4 for units as zerg. If you needs more than 4 hotkeys for units you are just wasting time because zerg units are not supposed to last very long anyway. Analyze progamers replay like Jaedong, you will almost never see him use more than 1-3 for units. Drag and click with 1-4 for important units (lurk, muta, defiler) is the way to go as zerg past the mid game.
As for the hatches, it really depends of what you like the best. Most will use 4-6-7 for the first hatches, then they use Fkeys. I personally use 5-6-7-8 for my 4 first hatches then I start to use Fkeys. |
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 RaiD.RaynoR United States. March 20 2012 02:19. Posts 284 | Profile # |
| i do 1-5 units. 6-9 hatches. late game i just use the F function keys for mass hatch |
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| ReketSomething United States. March 21 2012 04:57. Posts 4012 | Profile Blog # |
You could also block your ramp with a drone on hold position and then mass units behind this choke point. When you want to attack, just move the drone and since the rally point is in the enemy base, all your units will charge at the enemy at the same time.
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| StarscreamG1 Portugal. March 22 2012 00:46. Posts 816 | Profile # |
On March 14 2012 17:38 Golgotha wrote:
Show nested quote +On March 11 2012 07:20 Ideas wrote:
back when day9 did BW replays/VODs for his dailies, he casted one replay of himself vs xellos at WCG. It was such a great example/explanation of how to control a huge lurker/ling army and flank etc. I would totally link that to you if I remembered what episode it was lol
is this it?
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| G3CKO Canada. March 24 2012 10:06. Posts 1087 | Profile Blog # |
| I use to do 5-9 key hatches, 1 and 2 are fodders lings, 3, 4, 5, are lunkers, defilers and scourges. |
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| Puyi United States. March 25 2012 05:41. Posts 161 | Profile # |
i heard its a good idea to use 1-6 as hatch and 7-0 as units
1-6 is closer to S for macroing and 7-0 is close to P for attacking not to mention U for lurks |
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| TiQ.SinGi Norway. March 27 2012 10:02. Posts 308 | Profile # |
Hi! Retiered BW player here, but used to be a zerg-only B+\A- when I was really into Broodwar.
Usually I hotkey my zerg army like this:
Early-Mid game of playing: (For a Lurker\Ling army)
1 Lurkers
2 Lings
3 Lings
4-9 Hatchery (4 was always the hatchery in the main)
Late game:
1-4 Units, Where 1-2 was defiler\lurker\Ultra
2-4 Hydra\Ling\Muta\Scourge
5-0 Hatcery
Also I agree with sM.Zik, (althought everyone has their own style of hotkeying). But beeing used to switch hotkeys on your units is important so that you are not dependent on one hotkey for one particular group of units. Also I rarely had more than 1-4 for unit control, and often just had 1-3 for unit control up until mid-late game. Zerg is about flanking and out manouvering the "blob" of T\P, when I did this I always made sure I had set it up so that the 1-4 most important unit groups would be sent just as I dragged the "leftover army" into the fight. This way I could focus on producing more units from hatcheries during the fight. Practice a lot and you will find what suits you best |
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| Skeggaba Korea (South). March 27 2012 19:23. Posts 1509 | Profile Blog # |
1-3 Units (defilers as the first person in group 1-2 usually and then rest lings, 3 is usually lurkers
4 main hat/switch to units in late game
5-nat
6-macro hat
7-third expo/switch to macro hat in main when that is built
8-expo
9-0 macro hat/fourth
f2-main
f3-collecting point for units from main and nat (and depending on map even third)
f4 - latest expo
Its not optimal, but too lazy to change it |
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| InFdude Bulgaria. March 27 2012 20:10. Posts 602 | Profile Blog # |
| What helps if you can't keep a high apm or be fast with the A moves or flanking is to just position the goups further away from each other. Then if let's say control 1 is at the back you start with attacking with control 1 and so on. Basically line them up and start attacking with groups moving from the back to the front. |
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| Eliwood21 United States. March 31 2012 11:54. Posts 40 | Profile # |
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