With the leak of banners recently I wanted to post some thoughts on the subject as banners appear to be immanent, I wanted to pitch some ideas as this is a feature that I am very excited about. Having been around the community for 12+ years I have seen a lot of great ideas from mod like Hispania 1200 that probably added the first animated banners to warband, to current mods like Raise your Banners plus. I wanted to talk what I think would be the best approach.
What Raise Your Banners + Vexillum did is by far the best approach I have seen in the last decade by any mod and should be looked at when implementing banners. I posted the information as a resource and hope the devs look at what they accomplished as it looks freaking beautiful on the battlefield and how I hoped banners would turn out. That said it will be interesting how they get implemented to include the Dragon Banner and if it has any affects on the battlefield. The Dragon Banner is a legendary banner and the quest to obtain it is long and is kind of like the Black Mace quest, so it should cause some type of morale bonus or penalty for enemies or give some buffs for the army that has it. There also should be a royal banner that the faction leader's army has that is unique from the regular armies. Also war trophies should be introduced like what was in Viking Conquest, so the more banners you capture the more bonus XP/Gold/Morale you get. I hope that the feature turns out at least as good as Raise Your Banners since it has been delayed for so long.
What do you guys think?
Banner leak here:
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/beta-patch-notes-e1-8-0.452029/page-2#post-9807644
Raise your Banner plus Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/3253?tab=description
Vexillum
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/3716
What Raise Your Banners + Vexillum did is by far the best approach I have seen in the last decade by any mod and should be looked at when implementing banners. I posted the information as a resource and hope the devs look at what they accomplished as it looks freaking beautiful on the battlefield and how I hoped banners would turn out. That said it will be interesting how they get implemented to include the Dragon Banner and if it has any affects on the battlefield. The Dragon Banner is a legendary banner and the quest to obtain it is long and is kind of like the Black Mace quest, so it should cause some type of morale bonus or penalty for enemies or give some buffs for the army that has it. There also should be a royal banner that the faction leader's army has that is unique from the regular armies. Also war trophies should be introduced like what was in Viking Conquest, so the more banners you capture the more bonus XP/Gold/Morale you get. I hope that the feature turns out at least as good as Raise Your Banners since it has been delayed for so long.
What do you guys think?
Banner leak here:
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/beta-patch-notes-e1-8-0.452029/page-2#post-9807644
Raise your Banner plus Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/3253?tab=description
Vexillum
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/3716