Advanced tactical actions | Combat The Banner Saga Guide

Nearly all special skills of playable characters are really useful

When you plan attacks, you don't have to choose only from standard ones - every hero has special abilities, most of them are offensive (more information on the page with the list of playable characters). It's a good idea to keep it in mind and use them sensibly on the battlefield because they aren't "free", you have to spend some willpower points on them. For example, if you have a skill that deals damage to several opponents, wait until they are near your character instead of wasting it on a single enemy.

You should set some traps on the enemy's path.

We covered the topic of offence, now some information about defensive actions. You should especially pay attention to characters who use sword and shield (like Egil) because when you place them close to other allies, you may form something like a wall and improve defence of all characters that built it.

Another type of a more advanced tactical action is to make it hard for the enemies to reach specific places, defending archers and other weak units in defence. You should especially pay attention to giants because they take four tiles and enemies have to cover a longer distance to reach their target. Traps may also come in handy, for example Rain of Arrows used by Oddleif. Lastly, artifacts are worth mentioning here. Some of them have a property called Aggro, it makes enemies attack a selected character more often. Objects like that work best while given to giants or other characters that are good at defence.