Engineers auto-reclaim?

[CoolLew]

I love this game, but haven't played in ages. I want to replay the campaign all the way through in both this game and Foraged Alliance.
However, I can't seem to get my engineers to auto-reclaim (rocks and destroyed vehicles). I did google it, but it's still not working. Has something changed with the game? Or maybe I'm not doing something correctly. Thanks for any ideas.

[Alpharius]

You're getting them to Patrol right? That should get them to auto-reclaim...

[SATAN]

yes use patrol its the same for both supcom and fa

[CoolLew]

Just click the patrol button and then click a location?

[Alpharius]

Yeah, click where you want it to reclaim, if there is a lot to reclaim, make more points and it will keep going round the waypoints like rubbish collection :)

[lonesh33p]

Brief discussion of patrol vs attack-move:
How to get Engineers to auto-reclaim
Not 100% but I think this applies to Supcom 1
Patrol seems so great sometimes, reclaim, repair, assist... Dunno what the priorities are but other times it seems the engineers do whatever you didn't want.

Going fully pedantic on the patrol instructions: A patrol path always has at least two points. If you do a single left-click after (left) clicking the patrol button, one point will be the engineer's current location and the other will be where you click; the engineer will then patrol a straight line back and forth between those two points.

Normal method to set up the patrol if you do NOT want to include the current location is to

• right-click the starting point of your desired patrol area
  
• hold down shift
  
• (left) click the patrol button (or hit the P key)
  
• left-click the map to ceate the other "end" of your patrol line
  
• (optional) left click to add more points to the patrol path as desired
  
• release shift

Alternate method: After creating the patrol path, hold down shift and drag the start point to the desired location.

[Bobucles]

Patrolling engineers will automatically reclaim wreckage. They will only start reclaiming if there is spare storage space, but they won't stop once they start.

T1 engineers are ideal reclaim patrols. They're fast to produce and dirt cheap.

[CoolLew]

Thanks for the information guys