Pleasant surprises, tips, and tricks

Here are neat things I found that are not completely obvious, but I think are awesome, particularly at this stage of development. Add your own as comments.

1. Patrol, it works, and it works well.

2. Shift-right-click a series of capture nodes and your force will go to the first one, kill the grunts, capture it, then move on to the next one.

3. Organize which T1 units belong to which T2 units. First click a T1 squad, then right click a T2 unit. Done. This can also be done in the empire tree. Shift clicking selects multiple units on both the map and empire tree to speed up the process. This builds battle groups which act as a cohesive unit.

4. Environment skins can be applied to all maps. I figured like other RTSs each map would have one skin, but no, all maps have all skins.

5. Select a factory, hit Tab to make the QWERTY build orders cycle to the next tier. Select an engineer, hit Tab to make QWERTY build order cycle to the next set of structures.