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Ever wondered how long Jumpbots can hold out without using Moderator?

To add to Ctrl Z:
You can also use Ctrl X if you just want to select all units of selected types in the current viewport/window/screen (however you call it).

You can also just set your factory rally close to your front.

dorsh you're statistically better than me and I'm the one commentating. I wouldn't sell yourself so short.

Call me a noob, but I like autogroups. Don't really feel like they are a detriment up to 2200 Elo at least if you use them right.

Maybe if one's aspiring to become Godde v2 it would be important to avoid them, but if you just want to make top 3 on the ladder autogroups should work great.

1) Use them in conjunction with manual control groups and split your army. I guess the pitfall of overly relying on autogroup to do everything is partly why autogroups have such bad reputation.

What I do is I use autogroups and manual control groups both. Generally all my raiders autogroup to group 5, but nothing autogroups on number 1, so when I want to split my raiders up and multifront I just add a bunch of my raiders to group 1. This way I get the best of both worlds, since autogroup lets me save some APM when applying constant pressure, but manual grouping still lets me have the flexibility and control I want.

2) You need a good decent autogroup setup. I use something like this:
2 - skirms
3 - assaults and riots (main army)
4 - scouts and some weird units
5 - raiders
6 to 8 - AA and fliers

It might not be super good, but it does the job. An example of a bad setup would be having riots and skirms on the same group.

I find that especially for newer players autogroups might be very helpful, since the APM savings on army management will let the player focus a lot more on macro, which is more important. Result: Elo goes up (even if the player multifronts a little bit less, but that can be fixed later).

Nice. Split that false dichotomy right down the middle. Yeah I can endorse such a hybridisation. May even look into adopting it.

ATM my setup is clunky. I don't like using the numbers higher than 5, so I'm reallocating groups at different points in the game. 1-3 are separate raider groups until I get myself a main army. 1 becomes main army, while 2 becomes flank and 3 becomes specialty units. 4 is AA, but when I have both ground and air AA I don't know which one's which. I do need to look into standardising my hotkeys further. It requires too much thought to allocate and reallocate groups in this way for too small an advantage, so maybe I'll fiddle with implementing some hotgroups and force myself to widen my handspan?