How do you control your minions?

As a General, not the reinforcements!

from Demigod Forums

So I know the basic comands, but I assume (or hope) there are some more advanced commands too.

What I know:

click a minion and right click somewhere to move it there or right click something to have it attack it
m selects all minions
n selects all minions and your demigod
o regroups all minions and your demigod on the clicked location (isn't this the same as n?)

 

So are there any other things you can have minions do?
Also is there a way to know how many minions you have without searching for all of them? I often don't know wether my idols are still alive or not!

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

There are hotkeys for each type of minion - however I just use M and manually issue orders on the field. Knowing how many minions you have active, though, isn't easy - there are no indications to tell you, so you just have to keep an eye on your minions. I'm hoping this changes once we have offical mod support.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

as sedna i only use select hero only, select all minions only and select all bounded to some mouse buttons. i usually only have priests/bishops. on other generals it may makes sense to split the control of minions and special minions .eg. using erebus or oak as their minions are melee.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

If only you knew just how funny your question was!

It would be nice if we did have more control over them.

j

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

First :
Play a lot with h (only dg), m (only minions) & n (all). o stands for 'all minions come back close to me please'

Then :
You need to master the selection with double click (select all minions of 1 kind), because you want your archers attack the tower, you priest stay back and your yetis ( :D ) to tank.
Forgot keyboard shortcut because using them you are forced to keep all your minions in the same place. Send 1 or 2 nightcrawlers for fogbusting, send your archers on a tower and send a priest on an ally DG. Then you must click and drag to select your DG and the remaining minions.

If you use 'M' or 'N' or 'O', you will loose the specific order given to your minions.

Remember minions do collide with creeps, you'll find it hard to sent a shambler in the middle of an ennemy wave and make him blow.

 

This game is done so that micromanaging minions is hard, and it is a good thing. It prevents good players (not pros) to overwhelm with extra micro. Samely you dont have to deny your creeps to the ennemy. All in all this make the game a bit frustrating sometime (because you can not use your minions in an optimal way) but it is a good thing.