Useful Banners?

[tomoscar]

Are banners useful? (Not including the dragon banner.) The units with a banner only have 1 hand free, so they can only use a one-handed weapon. Should I develop just a few companions as duelist and captain, or should I give banners to as many companions as possible. So far, I don't see much purpose in the banners at all, since all my companions are equipped with bow and have high control and bow skills. Not being able to use the bow is far more negative than the small boost the banner give.
What do you think of banners so far? (Not the dragon banner.)

[MasterShake]

I imagine, banner gives a unit-wide bonus? So hypothetically, while your companion loses ability to use bow, each of 50 sharpshooters, he/she leads, gains that bonus. Could be better numbers overall.
I wish they didn't make us choose tho, the battle AI is titally NOT tweaked to protect bannerman or anything like that, which was a thing irl.

[Xroft]

Btw, what happens when toon handling banner is dead in the middle of battle, the bonus disappeared?

[Coach]

I read somewhere if the banner-holder dies, the bonuses will be cancelled, however there should be another one of your guys that should pick it up again, thus re-activating the bonuses. The player can also pick up the banner.

I think I heard this from one of the youtubers that was reviewing the update.

[Kilian]

We need a mod to put banners attached to the back of the units and free both hands

[Multifaced]

Originally posted by Kilian:

We need a mod to put banners attached to the back of the units and free both hands

yes please

and we need one to put a spare weapon or two on the horse saddle too

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Kilian:

We need a mod to put banners attached to the back of the units and free both hands

100% I will not be wasting a hand of one of my companions to carry these.. so.. they might as well not even exist..

[Xroft]

Originally posted by Multifaced:

and we need one to put a spare weapon or two on the horse saddle too

This! Dream of those additional horse weapon slots.

[Kernest]

And a carriage for the horse that you can put a ballista on!

[Wonderboy]

Your companion doesn't hold it. A soldier in his formation holds the banner for them.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Wonderboy:

Your companion doesn't hold it. A soldier in his formation holds the banner for them.

It looks like I can equip one on myself.. would I need to then make myself a formation leader in order to get a dude to carry it does that unit then become useless?

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Originally posted by Wonderboy:

Your companion doesn't hold it. A soldier in his formation holds the banner for them.

It looks like I can equip one on myself.. would I need to then make myself a formation leader in order to get a dude to carry it does that unit then become useless?

Yes, you need to assign yourself as a captain to a formation for your equiped banner to give bonus.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Originally posted by Kilian:

We need a mod to put banners attached to the back of the units and free both hands

100% I will not be wasting a hand of one of my companions to carry these.. so.. they might as well not even exist..

so first things first your companion is not the person who carries the banner, just a random unit in his formation, second you would not take 10% less dmg taken/more dmg done and stuff like this for 100 soldiers just because your dude now cant hold a shield?

game is balanced for banners, your expectations not. the only thing they messed up on banners is the AI suiciding somethimes on horse, but on foot its fine they just are a shieldless unit of your melee block.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Originally posted by Wonderboy:

Your companion doesn't hold it. A soldier in his formation holds the banner for them.

It looks like I can equip one on myself.. would I need to then make myself a formation leader in order to get a dude to carry it does that unit then become useless?

why should be be useless? a guy with a sword can still fight lol

[Eldritch]

I was about the post the same question. All this racket about banners in a game called Bannerlord and the bonuses are like "Decrease Ranged damage taken (-0,05)". Or maybe it means -5% ? In that case why not just bloody write "(-5%)" ? I win banners worth 9000 denars at the market and they look almost useless, I just keep selling them.

[Kernest]

Originally posted by EldritchElvis:

Or maybe it means -5% ?

-5% is exactly what it means.