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Tarion said:

Hi there.. Seen the way the mod works by adding and removing the banners when the battle starts/ends, wouldn't it be possible to use the same theory and add new troops who carry the banners? Like a signifier unit for each type of formation that just exists in battle and you don't have to train/recruit... That way you don't loose valuable troops to arrows etc, and also you could have a lot without affecting your soldier's fighting potential. On another topic, i changed the banner item type to polearm and now my troops carry them holstered on their backs and never draw them, it's not very realistic, but they do carry the banners straight up and fight as usual, and from a distance it looks the same, having banners is just so cool.

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Currently, the mod just adds the banners when the battle starts. There's no need to remove them as it is not changing the inventory of troops (troops don't really have an inventory, they have equipment sets that are read from and loaded at the start of the battle, which my mod doesn't modify).

Adding a signifier is a nice idea, I'll have to study it. It's veryu prone to feel "cheaty", as it's an extra troop that can fight (unless I don't give them any weapons) and that you don't have to feed. Remember the enemies also suffer from the same drawbacks you get by giving banners to troops, so the end result is balanced.

Also, I had toyed around with having the troops carry the banner on their back (and there are ways to do it in code without changing the item type), but it never felt realistic. Medieval soldiers in europe wouldn't carry banners on their back. If the game was set in feudal japan then things would be different.

You're welcome to tweak the mod or the game to your liking, of course. If by changing something in the game my mod behaves in a way you prefer I'm all for it. I thank you for the suggestion, and I'm always open to them. In the case of signifiers, I'll look into it, but in the case of holstered banners I won't implement it.

Have you tried changing the owning faction to another vanilla one, say the Vlandians, to see if it works? I think some things regarding settlements are done by code.

Also, I'm interested in modding the settlements, but haven't found an example of Settlemets overriding, and am not sure how to do it. Could you share your SubModule.xml and overriding xml?

The formations (the group number assigned to a unit) are not persistent at the moment. Either they aren't being saved or loaded (or both). If, for example, you like having a companion with the archers, you have to set the formation to II (2) every time you load a save.

I've never coded in C#, but I'm now getting into it. You could add this functionality to your mod, or point in the general direction if you see something relating the saving system.

Are you overriding the town using a module, or are you just editing the vanilla xml?

Answering one of my own questions:

Also, editing an existing troop type (Vlandian Banner Knight, in my case) to equip banners instead of shields has some of the troops still using shields

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Editing an existing troop doesn't remove its child elements as explained here, so the existing equipment sets aren't deleted and the game spawns the troops selecting a random set for each one.