I feel i loosing many games because the lack of micro management at my side. How do i improve micro management?
Practice.
How?
I want an answer more precise than just 'Play more games'. Playing more games will indeed help, but are there any other tricks?
How?
I want an answer more precise than just 'Play more games'. Playing more games will indeed help, but are there any other tricks?
What is stop micro?And, you can do 'stop micro' as well with xbows, but in the words of Nicov, its bot. I generally had better results with this than target firing. Think you know what I mean with stop micro.
What is stop micro?
Also, moving your units with cursor helps somewhere (usually in water wars). Like, if you move your cursor slightly past your units and right click there, the basic formation is rectangular (which is an important influence in unit efficiency I believe) and if cursor is far away and right click there, the basic formation becomes more cylindrical (where units don't seem as efficienct). Hope you understand that.
Just to expand on this point: It's sort of easier to describe with a shitty diagram imo. Where x is where you right click and the box is your units in formation. (I had to use dots to make the spacing not **** up)
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|....| ....x ........vs....|................ | ...................................... x
|....| ...................... |__________|
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When you command them to move close to their position they stay in the row formation, when you command them to move or attack far away they reform into a column.
The reforming into a column is bad for a couple of reasons:
1) Bad surface area for engagements. In ranged wars you want all of your units firing of course, and you generally want to stay at near max range (esp pre ballistics) to try and dodge their arrows like normal archer wars. If you're in a column then either you eat free hits waiting for your entire army to get in range or you lose dps as units aren't firing, particularly if trying to use stop micro. This matters a lot on water since ships are huge compared to xbow and unless stacked are typically in a much bigger spread formation, so getting the rows is really important for winning fights. The aim is essentially the same as getting concaves in starcraft.
2) When units reform into formations they don't move the way you want them to, they might even move the opposite direction to get into formation before actually following the move command. Again it's more visible on water due to unit size / wide formation. This really sucks hard when you want to gb and end up losing even more units for free because they run into the enemy before going away.
Hotkey them if possible, at least 4-6 monks on the hotkeys is always possibleIs there any advice about monk micro?
For <10 monks control group each one individually, for more than that use the idle military hotkey like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snGpjix6cR4Is there any advice about monk micro?
Basically number your monks 1-9 and when enemies approach, grab all your monks and right click any enemy. Then hit 1 and right click a different enemy. 2 and a different one, etc. That takes care of 10 conversions (the unnumbered one and the 9 numbered one).Is there any advice about monk micro?
Lol looks like I didn't update fast enough. I've been ninja'd.Basically number your monks 1-9 and when enemies approach, grab all your monks and right click any enemy. Then hit 1 and right click a different enemy. 2 and a different one, etc. That takes care of 10 conversions (the unnumbered one and the 9 numbered one).
Alternatively grab a bunch of monks, right click an enemy, Ctrl+left click a monk of yours that you have selected (to remove it from your group), then right click a different enemy, Ctrl+left click another monk of yours you have selected, etc.
There are other methods but these two are generally the best.