How to make your explorer/units follow a "route" the map

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Ye I'm too dumb to figure this one out.
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Hold shift while right clicking.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH.
How'd you people learn this anyway. I have been struggling for 10 years to know this.
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ivan wrote:THANK YOU SO MUCH.
How''d you people learn this anyway. I have been struggling for 10 years to know this.

I was visiting my grandma watching youtube videos about aoe3 because I was bored like 4 years ago when I saw a video which showed this.
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my old rival has finally revealed his true weakness
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Well, if you know about the general shift function then this is basically trivial. You are literally queuing commands.

I wonder how I learned about the shift button utility though.
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Something most people don't know is that if you have the option "easy military drag" - or something like this - you can actually select villagers+military by holding "ALT" when you make the box. Makes it a lot easier saving vills when they are clumped up with units
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macacoalbino wrote:Something most people don''t know is that if you have the option "easy military drag" - or something like this - you can actually select villagers+military by holding "ALT" when you make the box. Makes it a lot easier saving vills when they are clumped up with units

Really? Thats amazing.
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Yes, I've been trying to spread the word since I found out about that
Btw! It also helps selecting cows with scouts if you don't want to use Shift
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incog wrote:my old rival has finally revealed his true weakness
I have plenty of weak points and all boil down that Im a lazy ass.
I think I have a fair understanding of the game' but I never bother using ctrl groups, I never used shift for moving units, I only use the most basic hotkeys because Im too lazy to learn the rest, I play DM because Im too lazy to spend 40 mins building my eco like treaty folk do.

macacoalbino wrote:Something most people dont know is that if you have the option "easy military drag" - or something like this - you can actually select villagers+military by holding "ALT" when you make the box. Makes it a lot easier saving vills when they are clumped up with units
pretty cool! ty
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deleted_user wrote:Literally play the tutorial
Game tutorials are for gaylords.
But seriously I only played that thing twice and back then I didnt pay that much attention.
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@good ol' Ivan That's all I've got :P
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