Dawn of War Codex

I haven't played tyranids that much. Just got out of a game where I built a tyrant guard, and every time I wanted to charge the enemy I'd hit the [edit: GRID] hotkey for it (or at least what I thought was the grid hotkey) and the thing would shell-up. Needless to say, this was very undesirable.

I couldn't check this in the frantic heat of battle, and I'm too lazy to load-up a test game now, but I'd swear it was because the [edit: GRID] hotkey for "shell-up" is W, and the [edit: GRID] hotkey for charge is Q. If so, this really screwed me up bad because charge for other units (say the hive tyrant) is [edit: grid hotkey] W.

Can someone confirm what the grid hotkeys are on this unit? If I am right, wouldn't it be better to swap the [edit: grid] hotkeys for "charge" and "shell-up?" Would that offend anyone?

EDIT: Note that my suggestion is to swap the grid hotkeys for "charge" and "shell-up," while ALSO swapping the UI icons to keep the grid hotkeys logical.

Yes. It would offend me since it would defeat the point of grid keys. Charge on the TG is on the left of the UI, therefore it should be the left of the keyboard. That's the point of grid keys. Not all charges will be the same.

Torpid wrote:Yes. It would offend me since it would defeat the point of grid keys. Charge on the TG is on the left of the UI, therefore it should be the left of the keyboard. That's the point of grid keys. Not all charges will be the same.

I don't get what you are saying. Or perhaps you didn't get what I was saying. Or both, I dunno.

The change I was suggesting would swap the grid hotkeys for charge and shell-up, and swap the UI icons to match up (I assume that is possible). In other words, it wouldn't defeat the point of the grid keys, it would stay consistent with it.

I don't see why charge should be Q on the tyrant guard when it is W for a lot of other units - the hive tyrant, the carnifex, the warboss, etc. Since it seems obvious... it probably means there is something I don't understand or am not getting?

That's fair enough then

That would be a nice change, I agree. Consistency is never a bad thing.

You didn't mention UI changes in your OP though did you?

Torpid wrote:You didn't mention UI changes in your OP though did you?

You are right, I didn't. I thought what I was saying was clear (swap grid hotkeys means also swapping UI), but in retrospect I guess it wasn't clear (I will edit). And who should I make sure sees this?