[suggestion] non combatants companions

[spave0]

In my opinion, there should be the option to decide if a companion goes to battle with you or not, think about the surgeons or the engineers, they are a valuable asset in the party when they aren't injured, so they shouldn't stay on the frontline. what do you think?

 

[Ernsteen]

I would love this. Unlike Warband your companions cannot increase their intelligence by bashing in someone's head and also battle sizes are too large to simply put them at the end of your troop list. Only choice you really got is put them into their own combat group and manually tell them to piss off at the start of each battle.

I don't know if Bannerlord pulls the same thing as Warband, where you don't get a companion's bonus, if they heavily injured, but eventually when perma death for companions is added to the game, having them be taken out in every single fight, would be super annoying.

So yeah, I would like to have a sort of combat group that just straight up doesn't spawn in battles.

ALTERNATIVELY, and this is a pipe dream but, you could include baggage trains in battles, then you'd have
a) a combat group that defends the baggage train and non-combatants
b) have a secondary tactical target to deal a massive blow to the enemy's morale
But that would be a lot of effort to implement and potentially impossible to balance, particularly with the AI.

 

[Yangbang]

I think there should be a "rear" or "standby" selection pre battle. That way you can decide to either send all elite troops in, all recruits, or what ever the heck you want. Just more options as a leader in general like that.

 

[Mppqlmd]

I think there should be a "rear" or "standby" selection pre battle. That way you can decide to either send all elite troops in, all recruits, or what ever the heck you want. Just more options as a leader in general like that.

"Guys, we're about to fight looters, so i'd like my legionaires and palatine archers to not take every kill, okay ? Save some for the newbs, people !"

 

[Yangbang]

"Guys, we're about to fight looters, so i'd like my legionaires and palatine archers to not take every kill, okay ? Save some for the newbs, people !"

Haha that's what I'm saying, because if it's always the full army and I got new recruits that I want to get their hands bloody. Hard chance for them to get a kill when I got 20 legionnaires that have been living off the soul reaping of looters for the past 50 battles.