Do you play with banners enabled or disabled?

[||Lz3||]

you know , those floating banners , they are cool when looking at an army from far away , and also they help to mantain order in battle , however , I'm tempted to disable them , but last time I tried I couldn't know which were my troops and which were the enemy

[QuintusSertorius]

Nowadays, disabled. Battles look better, even if they're harder to follow.

[Ludens]

I play with banners and green arrows disabled. It does indeed make it somewhat hard to tell who your troops are and in a forest it becomes even harder to see where they are, but I think it adds to the realism.

[Havok.]

I play with banners and green arrows disabled. It does indeed make it somewhat hard to tell who your troops are and in a forest it becomes even harder to see where they are, but I think it adds to the realism.

agreed

[Swordmaster]

Thirded.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Fourthed.

Indeed it makes battles more realistic. After some battles you'll get used to it. Plus, after all you're the General and you should know about the locations of your units.

[Senshi]

Fifthed (awful word xD).

Also have it disabled, there are still other "helpers" to make clear where your units are. E.g. the faint "glow" your selected units show or simply your minimap in highest zoom level...usually, that works just fine for me.

[Poulp']

disabled
let the battle be a bloody mess.

[Ibrahim]

of course its disabled, what a foolish question......

[Fondor_Yards]

Well more of us have voted yes so far, so apparently not ;) Don't be afraid to admit it people. I know it's more realistic, but I used to play with them off and it would just get annoying, so I leave them on now.

[The General]

I play without banners. I once turned them off, and while I didn't mind banners, I preferred the units without them.

Not that big a deal that people make it to be, imho, including in screenshots in the Screenshot-of-the-month contests.

[/Bean\]

its a very close vote, yet nearly everyone seems to write they have them off lol. I keep them on, mainly because i cant tell without scrolling over every unit whether they are routing or not. I like the battles to look realistic, but in the balance between realism and gameplay i usually go for the gameplay option...dont hate me for it

[tapanojum]

I've been playing disabled ever since I saw this thread. A bit more confusing but definitely adds more realism and fun to the game.

[chenkai11]

uh, many mentioned no banners = realism? But doesn't ancient armies carries banners during battles? Or am I wrong?

[QuintusSertorius]

uh, many mentioned no banners = realism? But doesn't ancient armies carries banners during battles? Or am I wrong?

They do still carry banners. Zoom in on any unit and you'll see a standard-bearer unit, along with an officer.

They didn't carry massive, skyscraper-sized pieces of cloth to identify themselves.

[Swordmaster]

They do still carry banners. Zoom in on any unit and you'll see a standard-bearer unit, along with an officer.

They didn't carry massive, skyscraper-sized pieces of cloth to identify themselves.

Exactly, and much less let that banner start blinking to say to their enemies "we are routing, come cut us down".

[socal_infidel]

I play with no banners, no green arrows and no ridiculous glowing red battefield boundaries. Much much better that way.

[Che Roriniho]

Ideally there would be a button to turn them off temporarily, just to take screenies and to soakm in the glory.

[||Lz3||]

how can you disable the red lines?

[Strategos Alexandros]

Disabled. I tend not to fight in forests much so I can keep track of my units easily enough without them.
EDIT: red lines etc. are in EB configuration link.

[socal_infidel]

how can you disable the red lines?

Didn't know you could disable them in the EB configuration. But what I did was alpha channel out the unit indicators and border lines and dropped the files in the EB data/textures folder. Like I said, makes the battlefield look a lot better and adds to immersion.

[Strategos Alexandros]

Actually it might be the EB preferences link that I've only just remembered about, but it is definitely one of those two.

[||Lz3||]

I don't see any reference to redlines in configurations nor preferences

ontopic, well it's a pretty closepoll , but most of the replies say no interesting

Its a pain during forest battles

[QuintusSertorius]

I'm not sure it makes any difference in forest battles; you can't see the banners anyway.

[Strategos Alexandros]

I don't see any reference to redlines in configurations nor preferences

ontopic, well it's a pretty closepoll , but most of the replies say no interesting

Its a pain during forest battles

I think it calls them battlefield borders or something.

[Swordmaster]

AFAIK, to disable the battlefield red lines you add the -movie_cam option to your shortcut. It's not in the EB config/prefs shortcut for sure.

EDIT: Tested and confirmed.

[Ludens]

I'm not sure it makes any difference in forest battles; you can't see the banners anyway.

Not much, but the brighly coloured banners are easier to spot between the trees than those drab soldiers.

[||Lz3||]

AFAIK, to disable the battlefield red lines you add the -movie_cam option to your shortcut. It's not in the EB config/prefs shortcut for sure.

EDIT: Tested and confirmed.

even if I use the trivial script?

[Swordmaster]

even if I use the trivial script?

IIRC, if you use the trivial script to run EB, you need to add any options you wish to run RTW.exe with in the script itself (ebconfig.xml).

[schlappi]

After reading this thread i disabled banners in my current romani campaign, turning the planned quick sweep through the woodlands of Illyria into a desaster. I lost almost my whole cavalry and a good deal of my allied celt infantry to units i failed to notice in the forests. Only by sheer numbers i managed to eventually overwhelm the Epirote Army.
Sure takes some time to adapt :) I also play with general cam and disabled overview map btw.