@jip said in Add units to patrol?:
Whether or not patrols are beneficial or not - it is an engine feature and I'm quite confident that it can't be done directly. At best, you'd still need to manually select the units and press a hotkey like the spread attack functionality - but then to re-iterate the patrol commands over all the selected units.
And one approach is already existing: you can select your units and support one of them that are in patrol. They won't follow in formation, but they'll still try and follow.
Again, I'll use engie-mod as an example, this time of a mod that completely changed a core feature. And OK, that's a sim mod and maybe that's the only way it could be done, but the point is that nothing's really impossible (saying that in full knowledge that I don't have the coding skill to do it myself, or even know what's possible and what isn't, but I'd like someone who does to come on here and at least say, "I tried it, it can't be done").