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Post by mrsaturn on Jul 21, 2006 2:22:43 GMT -5
I probably should have known this from the beginning, but is there a way to hotkey a stack of units? Take this situation-
I'm on the frontline, and have a huge stack of assorted stuff defending my city. I see the enemy approach with his huge stack, and is in double-move range so I have to be quick on the ball with my catapults. How do I select my catapults quickly?
A) There's some secret hotkey system that I don't know about yet. B) Do your best and sift through that huge stack, select a catapult, hit "select all units of same type", and attack, praying you can do all this faster than him. C) Leave your catapult stack alone behind your city on a road tile, so you can select it much easier, and attack.
I desperately wish it's possible to do choice A... in some ren games you can have upwards of 40+ units in a city and it'll take forever to pick out a pikeman or catapult.
Second, a noob question- if you have a stack of 10 catapults and 10 cavalry, and you attack an enemy stack together, do the catapults resolve first? Or last? Or is the order random? Or will I be forced to hit with cats seperately first, then move in with the cavalry to get the maximum benefit?
Thanks.
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Post by Elledge on Jul 21, 2006 3:04:55 GMT -5
In situations that are applicable (like that instance) I split up my cavalry and catapult stacks onto two different squares, behind my city.
Regarding your second question, the cavalry will hit first, because they're more powerful.
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Post by stin on Jul 21, 2006 3:07:11 GMT -5
I have another related question. One of the tips that comes up when the game is loading is that you can assign a number to your units by highlighting unit and pressing ctrl and a number and then every time you press that number your unit is selected.
I thought this would be great for controlling a multi unit stack as you could very quickly select for example horseman and have them double move from your stack if you wanted.
Trouble is I have never got this number thing to work either for 1 unit or a stack of them. It works great in other games. Either AoE or Empire Earth (cant remember which).
Anyone got this working yet?
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Post by Ellestar on Jul 21, 2006 7:22:13 GMT -5
I think that that "secret" hotkey is exactly the same as it was many-many years ago in Command&Conquer and Warcraft II - Control-<digit> to remember a group and <digit> to select a group ;D Trouble is I have never got this number thing to work either for 1 unit or a stack of them. It works great in other games. Either AoE or Empire Earth (cant remember which). Anyone got this working yet? It's working but it's a little bugged. Game sometimes remember your groups of units and if you use hotkey, game selects all groups where your hotkeyed units are instead of selecting only these units. So it takes some time to select/unselect units from a naturally formed groups (for example, you moved in that square with 2 stacks of 3 cats and 4 other units in each - now you have 2 different groups there even if they aren't hotkeyed, and if you hotkeyed and trying to select catapults only, there is a very big chance that you'll select all units instead).
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Post by rupman on Jul 25, 2006 10:14:02 GMT -5
Just put those units in a tile next to your city or behind or whatever.
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Post by Necrominousss on Jul 31, 2006 2:23:52 GMT -5
I wish they would have a way to separate the injured units from the full strength units, in a stack, or is there a way and I don't know it?
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Post by ironclad on Aug 3, 2006 12:31:37 GMT -5
u have to press the skull then press enter
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Post by alistic on Aug 3, 2006 14:39:35 GMT -5
I cant remember wich button it is but if you hold either ctrl or shift and click a unit it will select all units of that type. I believe that is the magic key he's looking for.
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Post by churchill1 on Aug 3, 2006 20:18:42 GMT -5
u have to press the skull then press enter yeah. but make sure u select all the units in the stack. doing this for workers and settlers gives them special rainbow power too. so it is recommended.
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Post by Necrominousss on Aug 4, 2006 21:54:33 GMT -5
I cant remember wich button it is but if you hold either ctrl or shift and click a unit it will select all units of that type. I believe that is the magic key he's looking for. I want to group all injured units or better yet all full strength units with a key. It's a pain in the @ss separating out the units to be left behind for rest and recovery. I already no how to group like units. Oh, by the way that skull button tip really help. After I hit that, the units never needs any more attention from me. What a marvelous hotbutton.
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