Using your ALT key

Talk about Strategies and share your Replays here

Moderators: Global Moderator, Age Moderator

Post Reply
User avatar
ae2fast4u
Conscript
Conscript
Posts: 17
Joined: Sun Jul 27, 2008 6:50 am

Using your ALT key

Post by ae2fast4u »

I just wanted to start this thread about using the alt key. This works really well for raiding villes with hussar. I would like to open the floor to other uses of this.

For example:
When does using ALT work best in fight
Does ALT work for any gathering taska?
User avatar
Soccerman771
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 2874
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:25 am
Location: Sachse, Texas (near Dallas)
Contact:

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Soccerman771 »

I use alt key (attack move) in every game. Works best with Cav vs LI (at least that's where I've had the best results). I've never used it with villies gathering, and I don't know that you'd have any advantage that way either. Most of the time, most players have a problem just keeping their lazy villies working, and then working with proper eco balance, much less optimizing villies on gathering proportionately.

The one set-back with attack move is that once you press it, the units attack the closest units regardless of type, so you have to initially put your units in the right spot :)
jtackel@hotmail.com

"Do you know how difficult it is to micro Napalm?" - Lazy_Tuga

"This isn't going to work. I've picked a water deck and there isn't even a pond on this map." - Blackadderthe4th
User avatar
IndyBrit
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 1318
Joined: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:53 am
Location: Indianapolis

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by IndyBrit »

I use 'z' to attack move, just use alt to look at hit points. Didn't even know it did attack move TBH. :D

Be careful with attack move when the game is busy, at those times often the computer takes it as a regular move and if you rely on it too much you will get screwed when the computer reads it wrong. Happens most often in larger 3v3 or 4v4 games. There is no substitute for seeing your guys in battle to verify.
User avatar
Sporting_Lisbon
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 5276
Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:18 pm
Location: Lisboa

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Sporting_Lisbon »

Alt's good for microing, no one wants overkills.
TheRam
N3O Member
N3O Member
Posts: 530
Joined: Fri Mar 29, 2013 9:31 pm

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by TheRam »

I use alt for attack move Cav vs LI etc and I also use it with LI or HI (anything with a gun) when retreating cus it makes them do a quick shot, quite micro intensive sometimes but really helps, especially with guns like abus.
User avatar
Nighthawk22
N3O Member
N3O Member
Posts: 212
Joined: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:42 am
Location: Iowa, USA

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Nighthawk22 »

...whats attack move do?

... i know im a noob :cry:
User avatar
joe4holly
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 1720
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:16 am
Location: Southampton

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by joe4holly »

more info on attack move here http://www.rtsprofessional.com/guides/aoe3/

if they fix the link
huGGy
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 1738
Joined: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:06 pm

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by huGGy »

Does Alt Key as Attack Move still works, when i clicked the button in the options that it shows the HP of Units and Hunts?
User avatar
joe4holly
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 1720
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:16 am
Location: Southampton

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by joe4holly »

I changed it to space as I find it easyer.
User avatar
blayzer13
N3O Member
N3O Member
Posts: 506
Joined: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:39 am
Location: Vermont, USA

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by blayzer13 »

yeah huggy it works, u just have to hold alt and click
Blackadderthe4th
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 1178
Joined: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:01 am
Location: Coventry, UK

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Blackadderthe4th »

I don't think I've ever used attack move before. Sound like something I should look into. So is the consensuses here that its worth me getting into the mindset of using it whenever I move military?
User avatar
Soccerman771
N3O Officer
N3O Officer
Posts: 2874
Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:25 am
Location: Sachse, Texas (near Dallas)
Contact:

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Soccerman771 »

[quote=""Blackadderthe4th""]I don't think I've ever used attack move before. Sound like something I should look into. So is the consensuses here that its worth me getting into the mindset of using it whenever I move military?[/quote]

No. The last thing we need is you being more OP than you already are... :oops:
jtackel@hotmail.com

"Do you know how difficult it is to micro Napalm?" - Lazy_Tuga

"This isn't going to work. I've picked a water deck and there isn't even a pond on this map." - Blackadderthe4th
User avatar
I__CHAOS__I
N3O Member
N3O Member
Posts: 3009
Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:55 am
Location: ??

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by I__CHAOS__I »

attack move is OP, but you need to be careful when you use it and with which units, as somebody mentionned, laggy games can make your army run right into enemy troops without attacking and for some units there is just no benifit (like maces)
Image
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. - Sophocles
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient. - Aristotle
User avatar
Kaiser_von_Nuben
Honorary Member
Honorary Member
Posts: 2186
Joined: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:40 pm
Location: New York, NY USA

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Kaiser_von_Nuben »

[quote=""Nighthawk22""]...whats attack move do?

... i know im a noob :cry:[/quote]

Basically it does micro for you by letting each of your units target an enemy that is physically closest to its position. So, as everyone has mentioned, you need to maneuver your units to the right place, then hit attack move in the direction of your enemy. They will hit several targets with the same volley. It works best with hand cav against LI or villie bunches (it is a must for uhlans, cossacks and hussars). But I find it also works well for large LI masses if you carefully split them up and do two or more attack-moves, making sure your units are at different ranges from the enemy. That assures that they all hit different targets, rather than waste a volley on a single strelet. When you have CIR-armed skirms and you face muskets or other HI, you can take down up to 6 guys in a single volley with this. And attack-move retreat is essential for hit-n-run games, ie xbow wars. But make sure you keep doing regular move, too... otherwise your guys will stop dead and wait to shoot again. That can invite trouble!
"The German Army will not stand for it!"

-Colonel Bockner, King Solomon's Mines (1985)
User avatar
Nighthawk22
N3O Member
N3O Member
Posts: 212
Joined: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:42 am
Location: Iowa, USA

Re: Using your ALT key

Post by Nighthawk22 »

[quote=""Kaiser_von_Nuben""][quote=""Nighthawk22""]...whats attack move do?

... i know im a noob :cry:[/quote]

Basically it does micro for you by letting each of your units target an enemy that is physically closest to its position.[/quote]

hey thanks Kaiser that helps alot :)
Post Reply