Micromanagement Part 2/2 [TTG] (Starcraft II Beginners Guide)

[topzlock23]

Does anyone know of a good substitute for the Unit Test Map on the EU server? It seems like it's not uploaded there atm. I have tried several other custom maps, but they don't work the way I want them to.

[crandallconceptart]

...ZEE-LOT? obnoxious, but rest of this video is pretty cool....

[unku]

@crandallconceptart I have that habit too, i know it's pronounced Zeh-lot, like zealous. But it's an old habit from being a little kid playing this back in 97'. It's one of those funky English pronunciation issues, because Zeal is pronounced the way the guy on the video is saying it. Zeal and Zealous are both pronounced totally different. He's probably been saying that since he was a kid too.

[wr4id619]

You don't have to a-click. You can just hit S for them to shoot.

[unku]

@wr4id619 'S' Makes them attack any unit around them.. A+Click to an area makes them travel to that area attacking anything on the way.

If you put an army at the minerals and A+Click somewhere, your army will hit the Miners AND the Command Center. If you press 'S' your army will focus on attacking the Miners.

Very useful difference.

[TamaNewb]

Micro = moving your units with intelligence

[helioshimojo1]

gostei

[cbuma]

isn't it best to use hold position then move when kiting?

[MrForthcoming]

IdrA vs DrunkBobby Stalker Micro Video was removed by user :(

[TheDouchebagery]

fail blinking stalkers man

[hobofromhelltp]

I find it to be more efficient to keep my stalkers in a row so when my stalkers are blinked to the back of the line the opponent only attacks the stalkers at the front of the line. I've found this helps prevent blinking a stalker back and it running right back to where it was and getting shot again.

[innerbeast415]

i don't know what race you play normally, but i've got a couple of revisions:

Kiting:

Try to move DIRECTLY away rom your melee opponents when kiting, only turning at an angle when you absolutely have to. If you outrange AND outspeed your opponent (specifically a melee opponent), AND you have enough space, you shouldn't lose ANY units.

Good advice tho.

[HyporiZ]

ur micro is extremeeelyyyy bad, but i guess this is a good beginners guide.

[dirint]

When Kiting your micro it is way easier to just press S, or have your units stop. When a unit is stopped it attacks the closest unit. Instead of A-Click, Move-Click. Just press S and move. S and move.

[wopspee]

@dirint if a couple of your units are out of range they wont attack, im no stacraft expert but that seems why they use A not S

[Rkidd17]

When you were microing with the mauraders against the zealots, how exactly are you doing that? Like, are you telling them where to go, and then pressing the attack hotkey for them to turn around and shoot?

[tronnow]

@Rkidd17 move them with the right click and then after just a second press the A key, and then toward the zealots, and right after they fire move them away. it's called kiting.

[wcr4]

Nice video....I thought kiting was pulling back and returning melee units so they don't die. It would be good if you wouldn't have upgraded the Marauders, because this is about micromanaging instead of upgrade effectiveness,

[puppet355]

finished downloading =]

[AlkalineVictor]

it was drewbe not drunkboobie

[phantom645]

Thanks mate. By the way, only one minor comment, Zealot is pronounced "Zelot" - it has a silent "a" LOL. Thanks again tho bro.

[noitooks]

hey my micro skills are better than my macro skills by far, i generally play toss and use a mass blink stalker strategy to end the game at about 2 bases(maybe a few sentries), because after that it goes downhill for me, do you have anything like this video for macro?

[Toxic63]

i really appreciate your help. thank you :)

[Camhammy28]

do you have a walk through of the final mission? i have been trying it for a few days and keep getting pwned. thanks for the vids i will try using some of your macro tips and see if that makes a difference.

[JustGuideMe]

@Camhammy28 Type In his name and All In Brutal on youtube =)

[BELATUBE]

the part with the stalkers using blink. just having the unit move back does same. but blink comes in hand ms melee units.

[PrisonerofWarfare]

Good video... I suck at this game, but I love it. Microing will probably help a lot if I can use it correctly. But really? Zee-lots? C'mon! =P

[3xuro]

@PrisonerofWarfare i suck at it also but i'm learning

[wesl8160]

u seem like you could make a great guide id buy it atleast

[brettles18]

Great video. These are the ones I want to see.

[Smoked720]

charge the zealots buddy

[SCLordJest]

I always thought you used the stop key to help micro instead of attack

[mack0240]

so  are u the pro player ORB????

[uklucas]

Zealot = Zell-ot, not zee-lot ;)

Good guide though.

[jackdeath]

@uklucas Although you are 100% right, he is using a war-gamers/programmers slang. Since Z-lot (or ZLOT) is a corrupted computer program under the control of a higher power such as virus or Trojan, it is not too hard to see why some war-gamers say Z-lots instead of Zealots. It is just too good to pass up.

In the early days of computer science, because of string constrictions and memory conservation, no single word was longer than 4 characters, and zealot became ZLOT.

[badgescops]

@uklucas i say zealot as zelot but then in canada z is never silent it its pounaced zed not z

[kingduqc]

@uklucas I was about to say that

[MrNightkore]

@uklucas no. its zeelot

[Meetero]

Cool vid, very helpful.

[linemanlocal9]

great stuff and awesome tips. Thanks for the map lead too! I'm need to spend some serious time on this one. Thumbs up!!

[MisterZam]

Good job baddie...

[A1istor]

what button are you making them to attack after moving?

[mattkunq]

@A1istor prob the A key for atk

[Camronas]

@A1istor if you press A then click the ground your units will move to that location and attack everything on the path to it

[lionOFjudah33]

Great vid, really helps out!

By the way, Zealot is pronounced with a silent a. It sounds like mel rather than meal. Just a little pet peeve of mine.

[ak3hiker]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Link4415]

cant link URL

go Google "Unit_Test_Map"

[Bunji2k6]

Excellent video.

[DaireMcCormack88]

Another great video man, the unit test mat really helps too thanks

[tmeum]

I have made a similar map for Europeans. It is called Unit Test Map and is now available on battle.net.

[Ze0nite]

Holy derp I need to test this map.

[S2YEscape]

zeeeeeeeeeelawt sounds better :/

[MrRagnarocks]

Lol, he says it like Zeelaught.

[ShasOJeffrey]

LOL I was about to comment on the zealot/zeelot spelling difference but then u mentioned it xD.

[Tuber12334]

hmm i hade to use others Unit-Tester till know but I really like this one, sadly i am on the EU Servers. and bc Blizzard doesnt care as much about the EU Playerbase then the US apparently this map doesnt show up on B.net Custom Game so is there a download somewhere?

[Blah13lah]

Hmmm i think the challenge maps that blizzard has is a lot more help this this map.

[snowdick1]

can someone give me _direct link_ to the map please? is it possible to play it in single game?

[wheelyben]

who care's how it is pronounced. i'm well aware that it is correctly pronounced "zell-uht" but cause i'm uber cool i prefer to pronounce it "zee-a-luht"

[Onchei]

Zealot is pronounced zel-aut and (first syllable rhymes with fell) and not zeel-aut.

The root word, zeal, *is* pronounced zeel, though. English is just like that. Deal with it.

[TheRogueX]

Heh. "Zeelots"? That's not how it's pronounced. It sounds funny.

[101111101101]

lol you got fucked up on the stalkers. 

[Adun4184]

i noticed that while you were micromanaging at 1:36 you were using the attack command, but wouldn't it be faster to tell them to hold position?

[kerryob]

Useful videos thank you. Just one little off topic thing, Zealot is pronounced: ( zel-uht) not ( zee-lot) just fyi :)

[spezw]

Where can I find this custom map? Seems very useful to test unit effectiveness vs other units.

[TheThinkingGamer]

@manteconcon it's in part 1/2

[bermagic]

@TheThinkingGamer its not =/

[Bunji2k6]

@bermagic If you're talking about the map, it clearly is. Custom map, search for unit, PRESTO!!

[bermagic]

@Bunji2k6 yeah its there how to find it but the question was where to download it ;-)

[Bunji2k6]

@bermagic It's where you download it, too. You don't have to download it and manually put it into a map folder. And if your internet can't pull down that miniscule file over bnet2, you shouldn't be playing SC2 in the first place. You're welcome.