Hotkey to select all units of same type?

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I'm finding that it's sometimes difficult to select all air units of the same type to assign them to a control group since they move around so much. When I draw a box around them with land units beneath them, I also get the land units in the group, which I do not want most of the time.

 

Supreme Commander had hotkeys to select all units of the same type (CTRL+A selected all air units, CTRL+L selected all land units... can't remember sea units but it was probably CTRL+S). 

 

Would you consider implementing these functions within AoS?

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

I find double clicking air units is best for me.

 

Supreme commander and Total Annihilation also had Ctrl+Z which selected all of the same type(s) as currently selected. This is something that I had heavily utilised in those games.

 

There is presently a limitation to the number of units that can be selected at once. When dragging across a large army on the screen, if the unit count exceeds a threshold then many are not selected. So a hotkey to select all units would fail in larger games. Also, units can be formed into armies, which could be a mix of land and air.

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Would be nice if there were multiple hotkey options too. All units on screen vs. all units in army vs all units on map (anywhere, regardless of location).

 

ctrl click for one, alt click for second option, ctrl alt for third... or something like that.

 

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Reply #3 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

I would like all the options like ctrl Z, Ctrl L etc. as well, they can be so useful.

In the meantime if you hit F3 it will select all air units on the screen. Useful for separating them out from your armies.