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by light3 5070 days ago
'we decided to allow players to select only four units at a time based on the idea that users would be required to pay attention to their tactical deployments rather than simply gathering a mob and sending them into the fray all at once.'

Damnation! Sometimes I would just build huge mobs for the fun of it, but trying to get them to attack at the same time was a pain.

Great game though, artistically I enjoyed it more than Warcraft II.

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Looking back, I really wished warcraft2 would've allowed you to bind groups of 9 to numbers.
Actually, you can; I wrote that feature all the way back in Warcraft 1.

Select a group of units. Press Ctrl+# (where # is 1..4 or maybe 1..9; I can no longer remember) to bind that group of units to that number key. Then press the # key by itself to select that group.