Enough already write this bull****.
We played Warband for 10 years without the death of companions and nobles in battles - and that was fine with everyone.
We played without death of companions and nobles in battles before patch 1.5.5.
The way it is implemented now is not a challenge - it is nonsense. The way it is implemented now makes the companions significantly weaker and more useless than regular soldiers. You cannot even equip a companion in the kind of armor that every cataphract has! Not to mention that if the cataphract armor were on sale, it would cost so much that 10,000 cataphracts could be hired with this money!
And there is no challenge whatsoever! You completely defeat the enemy, lose 50 people from an army of 2500 - and certainly among these 50 - either your companions, or your nobles - it's generally funny there - lost like 1, and the army decreased by 200 people at once - the entire detachment of this nobleman.
What is the challenge here? Nobles always get into the starting lineup of the battle - for some reason, their armor is no better than that of ordinary top warriors (and this is also nonsense) and therefore they have a higher chance of dying than an ordinary warrior!
And if I can separate my companions into a separate detachment, which simply, in fact, will no longer participate in the battle, but will stand on the sidelines throughout the battle - I cannot do this with the nobles. So it turns out nonsense - that there are almost no losses, but at the same time the army immediately loses hundreds of soldiers who evaporated due to the death of a nobleman.
What does your "knocks out all enemies" have to do with it?
You really didn't have enough brains to understand what I have described above point by point?