If you have a detector in battle I know you can distinguish between hallucinated units and the real ones. But will your units ignore the hallucinated units and only focus on the real ones?
Starcraft – Do units attack hallucinated units even with a detector
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Focus fire is critical for sniping injured units and for taking down important or high DPS units like void rays, ghosts, brood lords, immortals etc...
But beyond that, it actually worse to focus fire units. Using this awesome map, I have actually tested micro battles with and without focus fire. I have found that 9/10 times any group of units I micro to focus fire just flat out lose to non-micro'd units.
There are two problems with naive use of focus fire. 1) Targeting one unit will most likely cause you to over-kill the unit, which is a waste when you could be shooting at another target. and 2) If your unit is not in perfect range of the target, the unit will bumble around until they are, which means instead of attacking, they are bumbling around.
The radar ability of the sensor tower will not detect cloaked or burrowed units, regardless of whether they are within the fog of war.
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Your units will prefer to attack real units if they are in range of both and the illusions are detected. If they are only in range of illusions they will attack illusions. I believe that they also will switch away from attacking illusions if a real unit enters range, but I will try and find a source on that.
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