Macro & Micro
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This tutorial will be about Macro and Micro.
What is Macro and Micro?
Macro is, in general, everything you do to send your army to the front. This means you have to take care of your economy, which includes expanding and having a good income. Another aspect of Macro is building Supply Depots at the right time, because you don’t want to get supply stuck, and more or less constant unit produktion.
Micro refers to the control of your units.
This includes for example pulling weak units out of the battle so they won’t get killed, and things like a clever positioning of your units in a battle.
Your melee units are pretty much useless if they are stuck behind your range/casting units.
Another important aspect of Micro is taking advantage of your environment. There are several ways to do this:
- block your ramps with your units
- go up and down the cliffs with your collossus/reapers to hit and run
- put your siege tanks on higher levels so your opponent can’t see and attack them (or have a flying unit with you to see your opponents higher level siege tanks)
- etc.
The next aspect of Micro I want to talk about is Focus Fire. To use this perfectly I highly recommend to always have the lifebars shown (you can do this in the gameplay options). Now take your ranged units and let them fire on units with low life and them out, or focus fire on strategic units (like high templars).
Very important for both Micro and Macro: use hotkeys!
I recommend using the “grid“ option so that you have all your hotkeys on qwert, asdfg, and yxcvb since this hotkeys are the same for each race.
Hotkeys are important for Micro because you can control the abilities of your units faster and react better.
For Macro you should use a combination of having your production buildings on numbers (like 5 for main base, 6 for barracks and so on) and using hotkeys to produce units, so that you can both control your units in a battle and also constantly build new units without having to leave the battlefield.
What is Macro and Micro?
Macro is, in general, everything you do to send your army to the front. This means you have to take care of your economy, which includes expanding and having a good income. Another aspect of Macro is building Supply Depots at the right time, because you don’t want to get supply stuck, and more or less constant unit produktion.
Micro refers to the control of your units.
This includes for example pulling weak units out of the battle so they won’t get killed, and things like a clever positioning of your units in a battle.
Your melee units are pretty much useless if they are stuck behind your range/casting units.
Another important aspect of Micro is taking advantage of your environment. There are several ways to do this:
- block your ramps with your units
- go up and down the cliffs with your collossus/reapers to hit and run
- put your siege tanks on higher levels so your opponent can’t see and attack them (or have a flying unit with you to see your opponents higher level siege tanks)
- etc.
The next aspect of Micro I want to talk about is Focus Fire. To use this perfectly I highly recommend to always have the lifebars shown (you can do this in the gameplay options). Now take your ranged units and let them fire on units with low life and them out, or focus fire on strategic units (like high templars).
Very important for both Micro and Macro: use hotkeys!
I recommend using the “grid“ option so that you have all your hotkeys on qwert, asdfg, and yxcvb since this hotkeys are the same for each race.
Hotkeys are important for Micro because you can control the abilities of your units faster and react better.
For Macro you should use a combination of having your production buildings on numbers (like 5 for main base, 6 for barracks and so on) and using hotkeys to produce units, so that you can both control your units in a battle and also constantly build new units without having to leave the battlefield.
