Patrol or Attack Move?

[Raze]

People seem to use Patrol to attack more, why is that?

[jonoliveira12]

It works better with teh pathfinding. Attack Move is really bad in all AoE games.

In AoE3 DE, pros are asking for AoE2 style Patrol to replace Attack Move.

[Capitán Alatriste]

Patrolling has several advantages. Firstly if you want to send a group of units across the map to attack/raid you send them in patrol stance and they will attack and kill any enemy that they come across, so they won't get ambushed and killed without fighting back. Secondly it seems to greatly help with pathfinding in melee if you're attacking an enemy blob. If you simply right click attack on a single unit your opponent might trick your units to chase after it and use the rest to kill off your army. Thirdly leaving units behind patrolling will allow them to guard a section while you're not paying attention and prevent raiding or surprise attacks.

[Mary]

I dunno, I'm a n00b.

But so like, I recently started using attack move, and it feels like patrol would serve the function better for regularly attacking since my dudes seemed to wander off much more than when they're regularly patrolling my gates or something. I imagine that atleast with patrol, if I accidentally forget about them for a second after attacking with it, I'll see them walking together along a path instead of lost and alone, slashing some house that wasn't -really- all that close to where I told my blob of soldiers to move.

[Novi]

Attack move is buggy. Always has been.

[🍮]

attack move works fine for me. i never use it from far away. only when im super close. i never stop microing even when im attack moving. so i can be attack moving for a couple sec then move then attack move again depending on the position of my units.

[Pev]

Attack move, sometimes when you click the area you want to attack, they keep moving in stack instead of fighting