Managing the whole party | Character development The Banner Saga Guide

In later chapters your party will grow, letting you change the people in it more often.

There might be six characters at a time in your active party (which is the one that fights in battles) so if you have enough heroes, you should fill all of the slots. If there are more playable characters in your caravan, you may start planning who'll be in it. I would recommend one of these two options:

1) Option 1 - two giants, two melee fighters, two long distance characters (archers, Eyvind)

2) Option 2 - Three giants, one or two melee fighters, one or two long distance characters.

As I said on one of the previous pages, when you play on normal on hard difficulty setting, your characters may get seriously injured if they lose all strength points. You should keep that in mind and always have at least two additional characters that can replace a wounded unit. In easier fights you should use other members of the party so that they can get some kills.