microing air

My friend and I were having a 1v1 match, we both hadn't played in a while, i went land he went air, he sent out an air scout so i stopped going land and went air. I was uef he was cybran. he had a head start so from there on every battle that had air units, he had more because he had used his early bombers to kill all my outer mexes. He said I didn't know how to micro my air. I said you can't micro air, you can just choose good places to use it. He said I was very wrong. How do you micro air?|||you put it behind the enemy air|||I'm not entirely clear as to why the armies of the future are devoid of units that can fire aft of themselves... but yes, wherever your air is, you want it to be facing the enemy air, preferably with the enemy air not facing your air.|||I'm assuming the above two are keeping the "actual" micro trick (some read it as exploit-ish, but i don't see how it's different from dancing units) secret.
Word will cover air micro in his up-coming part-2 guide.|||sovietpride|||I focus more on the theory neph, you do more of the practical stuff
But I do have a few hints in my upcoming guide :)|||Nephylim|||there's a few neat tricks. You can tell your air units to stop periodically, which will force them to retarget, so they are always firing at something and not flying in a big circle chasing a target while not shooting at anything else.
Of course, getting behind the enemy blob is important, but it's only going to give you an advantage in a few kills, so it's not really worth going to extremes over.
Similarly, luring the enemy over anti-air is nice, and will give you a considerable advantage in any air battle, but they shouldn't be stupid enoughto stay and fight over there.|||sovietpride|||Quote:|||Ovens use a lot of power...
Something that Iron showed me, if you see one of your jets getting targeted by multiple enemy jets and probably won't last too much longer, have him fly out of the air blob in the quickest path possible. This will get all the other jets to chase after it, letting your other fighters get behind and completely unload in the rear.|||That is one of the reasons why you NEVER EVER attack air units by clicking on them. And why people like me use air micro.|||I think it was UncertainCat who originally showed me this, but for the past 2 months or so, I have been using almost exlcusively A-followed-by-left-click. This makes my fighters, I think, attack move. This seems to work much better than whatever I was doing before.
However, I recently did an Aeon air game after a long hiatus, and I *think* I saw my A-left-click order go afowl, as they tred to bomb some structures when I wanted them to kill some jets instead.|||vax2007|||vax2007|||Plain wrong. Air units have priority and get targeted first.