History VideoGame / BannerOfTheMaid

* If you purchase the DLC, then you will obtain Mu Zhiyun just before D'Eon. Unlike D'Eon, however, she is an absolute monster for the first half of the game thanks to her high HP and speed, as well as the ability to use both swords and guns to ensure that she has no bad matchup. The only con to her is her very low charisma. Once the second half of the game rolls out, however, her inability to promote and the difficulty of obtaining high-tier weapons make her lag behind in term of offensive power, and because of her low charisma she can't even mitigate that by spamming Heroic Attacks. Fortunately, she still retains her great survivability so you can at least use her to bait enemy fire.

** The character profile viewer is available from the beginning of the game, and categorizes characters in such a way where you can tell whether they'll be recruitable or not (party members fill out the first three pages, everyone else takes up the last two). Likely in an attempt to lessen potential spoilers, certain characters don't have their profiles added until after certain plot developments involving them, though this has the ironic effect of casting even ''more'' suspicion onto them. It can also be quite handy for figuring out which characters are [[OptionalPartyMember OptionalPartyMembers]] that can be potentially added to your ranks.

* DrillSergeantNasty: The Marquis de Lafayette is said to have been a brutal training instructor during Pauline and her friends' time studying at Académie de Versailles. He's much more pleasant toward them post-graduation, likely as a result of them earning his respect.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The three highest-ranking ([[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and thus strongest]]) members of the Anti-France coalition are all female, with the male members who aren't nameless {{Mooks}} being early game midbosses that aren't made out to be anything special. Notably averted within a larger context, as while the AlwaysFemale Maids possess incredible supernatural powers, men such as Napoleon and Marquis de Lafayette are able to match and even surpass them as military commanders through sheer talent.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: The three highest-ranking ([[AuthorityEqualAsskicking and thus strongest]]) members of the Anti-France coalition are all female, with the male members who aren't nameless {{Mooks}} being early game midbosses that aren't made out to be anything special. Notably averted within a larger context, as while the AlwaysFemale Maids possess incredible supernatural powers, men such as Napoleon and Marquis de Lafayette are able to match and even surpass them as military commanders through sheer talent.

* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Female characters based directly on actual historical figures, namely Pauline, Marie Antoinette, and Josephine de Beauharnais, are generally much shapelier than most paintings would lead you to believe. While this is mostly averted by historical male characters, who look very close to the real life paintings portraying them, Louis Desaix and Charles Leclerc are both depicted as a pair of {{Bishonen}}, possibly due to being positioned as potentional [[LoveInterest Love Interests]] for Pauline.

SharedFamilyQuirks:

* ThoseTwoGuys: Dutheil and Lafite are introduced together, serve the same functional role in the story (as Rose's most loyal subordinates), and almost never appear apart. While they're 'technically'' not recruited at the same time, Lafite joins the party at the start of the very first chapter after Dutheil is recruited, meaning that the only way you'll ever actually get a chance to use Dutheil without Lafite is if you go out of your way to play free maps right after you get him. This also leads to GameplayAndStoryIntegration, as Dutheil's passive abilities cause him to pair very well with Lafite, encouraging you to have them stick together during battles.

* SimilarSiblings:
** While Pauline is generally more modest and sensible than Napoleon, both Bonaparte siblings think about all aspects in life in military terms and have NoSocialSkills as a result. On the flipside, they're both outstanding military leaders for much of the same reasons.
** Both Leclerc and his younger sister Aimee have short, curly blonde hair and overly-exuberant personalities. Pauline notes their similarities soon after meeting Aimee.

* LooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Artillery units qualify to an extent; their low movement range and high attack range makes them very useful in wide open maps but somewhat of TheLoad during more narrow ones. Thankfully there are enough of the former map types to allow them to remain viable throughout the game.

** Lampshaded and subverted by the minor character Fernand, who is a loyal soldier fighting on the same side as the heroes but has a FaceOfAThug that makes him resemble a typical goon. Desaix naturally assumes him to be a deserter when he first meets him.

* BrotherSisterTeam: Pauline and Napoleon both care for and respect each other, and are always willing to pitch in with helping the other in battle when they can.

* FaceOfAThug: Fernand is a loyal ally to the heroes but is so shifty-looking (as in, his portrait is a palette swap of a standard thief enemy) that he's regularly mistaken for an enemy.

* GlassCannon: Artillery units, fittingly enough; they have abysmal speed and movement and will crumble apart quickly if cornered, but they have excellent range and hit ''very'' hard, making them excellent support for you frontline fighters.

* InsufferableGenius: Napoleon is renowned as one of the finest military minds in the entire world and is ''very'' well aware of it. Pauline immediately knows that Desaix is an excellent general because, in her words, he's one of the only people she's ever heard her brother complement the talents of besides himself.

* LadyDrunk: Paulette, who is always seen with a bottle of wine in hand that she takes a swig from whenever she attacks.

* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: Only women can wield the world-changing powers of the Maid, thus many of the story's biggest movers and shakers are female. And while the player's army is filled with female soldiers, [[MenAreTheExpendableGender all generic enemy units just so happen to be male]]. Downplayed somewhat in that UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte [[BadassNormal is still regarded as the most brilliant military commander in history despite not having any magical powers of his own]].

** While Line Cavalry units don't necesarily have low speed (some like Pauline are actually quite fast), they have the second-worst movement range in the game after Artillery units and a range of only one square in front of them, making them hard to maneuver around the battlefield. They compensate by having excellent defensive potential, with a variety of passive abilities that allow them to recover health every time they take part in battle. Of particular note is Dutheil, whose abysmal speed is offset by his tremendous health and defense (he has the highest values for both in the game).

* WorldOfActionGirls: Not only are women able to enroll in the military in this version of revolutionary era France, but they also happen to be the ''only'' people capable of possessing the power of the Maid, which enables them to inspire soldiers to perform astounding feats in battle that can instantly turn the tides of war in their favor. Men are still very capable of being talented soldiers and commanders, but the focus of the game is primarily on the women. Female characters also hold a slight majority over males in the player's party throughout the entire game, meaning it is likely that you'll take part in a battle using [[AmazonBrigade a team comprised almost entirely of women]] at at least one point or another.

* JeanneDArchetype: The Maids are extraordinary women who are destined to save France. Even the original Jeanne is the predecessor Maid or Orleans.

* GameFavoredGender: Along with there being more female units st the player's disposal than male for most of the game, the only male in the [[GameBreaker Game-Breaking]] Light Infantry class is the near-useless CrutchCharacter d'Eon, and there are ''no'' males in the very useful Military Band class, giving the women a serious edge over the men overall. Interestingly, the only gendered passive ability in the game buffs male characters (Dutheil's, which gives all male units adjacent to him at the beginning of a turn an additional point in movement), possibly in an attempt to remedy this disparity.

* GameFavoredGender: Along with there being slightly more playable female units than male, the only male in the [[GameBreaker Game-Breaking]] Light Infantry class is the near-useless CrutchCharacter d'Eon, and there are ''no'' males in the very useful Military Band class, giving the women a serious edge over the men overall. Interestingly, the only gendered passive ability in the game buffs male characters (Dutheil's, which gives all male units adjacent to him at the beginning of a turn an additional point in movement), possibly in an attempt to remedy this disparity.

** With the exception of CoolOldGuy d'Eon and Murat, who, while not unattractive, is drawn relatively faithfully to pictures of his historical counterpart, the player's army is made up entirely of beautiful women and {{Bishonen}} men. In comparison, enemy soldiers range from being ugly to plain, though BishonenLine is firmly in effect in respect to the major antagonists.

** Lampshaded and subverted by the minor character Fernand, who is a loyal soldier fighting on the same side as the heroes but has a FaceOfAThug that makes him resemble a typical thug. Desaix naturally assumes him to be a deserter when he first meets him.

* InsufferableGenius: Napoleon is renowned as one of the finest military minds in the entire world and is ''very'' well aware of it. Pauline immediately knows that Desaix is an excellent general because, in her words, he's one of the only people she's ever heard him complement the talents of besides himself.

** The character profile viewer is available from the beginning of the game, and categorizes characters in such a way where you can tell whether they'll be recruitable or not (party members fill out the first three pages, everyone else takes up the last two). Likely in an attempt to lessen potential spoilers, certain characters don't have their profiles added until after certain plot developments involving them, though this has the ironic effect of casting even ''more'' suspicion onto them. It can also be quite handy for figuring out which characters are OptionalPartyMembers that can be potentially added to your ranks.

* InterfaceSpoiler: [[spoiler: While computer-controlled ally units appear throughout the game, it's rather telling that the eventual traitor Hubert is the only one of the GuestStarPartyMember trio of himself, Napoleon, and Rose that can't be controlled during the second chapter.]]

** Aspiring LadyOfWar Pauline is the tomboyish one.

* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: The Bonaparte siblings are phenomenal military tacticians and commanders, but are virtually inept at anything involving art or culture. The two plan a date for Napoleon with Josephine as though it were a war campaign, and Pauline's idea of writing a play amounts to staging a mock battle. Naturally, their companions are floored by their cluelessness.

* InterfaceSpoiler:
** [[spoiler: While computer-controlled ally units appear throughout the game, it's rather telling that the eventual traitor Hubert is the only one of the GuestStarPartyMember trio of himself, Napoleon, and Rose that can't be controlled during the second chapter.]]
** [[spoiler: Philipp speaks dialogue when selected even as an enemy, a trait otherwise only possessed by playable characters. This is a big giveaway that he'll join your party down the line.]]

** While Line Cavalry units don't necesarily have low speed (some like Pauline are actually quite fast), they have the second-worst movement range in the game after Artillery units and a range of only one square in front of them, making them hard to maneuver around the battlefield. They compensate by having excellent defensive potential, with a variety of passive abilities that allow them to recover health every time they take part in battle to make them great at holding down choke points. Of particular note is Dutheil, whose abysmal speed is offset by his tremendous health and defense (he has the highest values for both in the game).

* EleventhHourRanger: [[spoiler: Napoleon permanently joins the player's party one chapter before the end of the game. Thankfully, he carries over into NewGamePlus, so he has more utility than many other examples of this trope.]]

* MightyGlacier: Heavy Cavalry units have high health and defense, but low speed and can't be counted on to attack twice in battle.

* FakeBalance: The game's TacticalRockPaperScissors is rather unbalanced in practice. Line Infantry make up an overwhelming majority of the enemy forces while Light Cavalry are rarely ever seen. This has the effect of making the player's Heavy Cavalry units [[TierInducedScrappy much greater liabilities than they are likely intended to be]], as they are ineffective against Line Infantry and have few opportunities to make use of their advantage against Light Cavalry. Conversely, it turns Light Infantry into borderline [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]], as they are effective against Line Infantry and weak against Light Cavalry.

* FragileSpeedster: Light Infantry units have high speed and movement, but the low health and defense. Thankfully, their agility makes them excellent dodge tanks, to the point that they border on being [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]].

* FragileSpeedsters: Light Infantry units have high speed and movement, but the low health and defense. Thankfully, their agility makes them excellent dodge tanks, to the point that they border on being [[GameBreaker Game Breakers]].