Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Banner

"Let the Reclaimer flag fly high"

Tactical analysis

 * Wave your flag high: Formed from the most fanatic clones. The Banner from the Beast Cell are charged with leading the clones into battle. Acting as a focal point for the horde bonus, boosting any nearby clones rate of fire, damage, and morale
 * Die for this flag: Due to being responsible for holding the Reclaimers flag, and the training they suffered, Banners are resistant to morale damage while being able to heal and empower nearby clones morale resistance and regeneration. In turn these clones will gladly use themselves to block any shots coming towards the Banner
 * Cowardice will not be tolerated: Banners are also armed with a heavy magnum pistol. While it's rather effective against small squads, the pistol is better known for having killed more clones they deemed as “cowards” then enemies
 * Don't let it touch the ground: But as the leading soldier of the clones, bearing the Reclaimers flag, morale tends to drastically plummets in the event they die, or in rarer cases retreat. And with their pistol slow rate of fire the Banners must be shielded by clones and retreat if possible

History
Preferring mass infantry tactics and seldom supporting his troops with armored divisions, Bahlgram needed his clones obedience and will to die for the Reclaimers guaranteed as well as turning them into killing machines. Therefore, he established a new division of clones that consists of deploying field officers, named Banners, whose mission is to provide support to combatants through propaganda and an elevated sense of patriotism, so that soldiers keep fighting and pushing forward to victory (or death).

But the training these chosen clones are hellish, liken more to animal abuse then actual training, where any hesitation is met with the clone being painfully shocked or flogged. Where they must endure charging upon fields bombarded by live weaponry, where permanent hearing damage is uncommon and those who become crippled are thrown to the grinder to be reduced to materials, with their final test being to beat up clones the chosen considers as “defective”, meaning they disobeyed orders, within an inch of their life before having to disembowel, strangle or drown them afterwards. Refusing to do so is swiftly met with a public flogging or beating, to show other banners the consequences of disobeying th chosen, where dying uncommon, and in the event that happens the chosen are known to continue whipping or beating the corpse, until the body is reduced to a a pile of meat and organs, and send the remains to the grinder to show the remaining Banners what they do those they consider “defective”. And through all this the chosen gaslights them, saying their doing this because they love them or because they must prove themselves worthy and rewarding them whenever they followed orders, all with false smiles and hidden disgust. Until the end where the surviving clone, branded to show themselves as their standard bearer, becomes nothing more then a subservient dog towards their master, with many even falling in love with them. To their broken view their master give them purpose, and without them they are nothing. But the same can’t be said for the chosen, who sees them as nothing more then an obedient weapon, a weapon that can be easily replaced once broken.

The results proved fruitful for the most part, although numerous soldiers would be reported dead or injured, however those losses could be compensated with Reclaimers rapid cloning. It has also been attested that Banners had better chances of survival because of the soldiers' will to not let the flag fall.

Short story
"Shut your lies dog! You know nothing of my master! They fed me and care for me when I'm sick. And only punish when I'm too scare to fight against tyrant like you! They protect and feed me! Unlike you murderous tyrant. And I know full well they will come and save me!"

*Recording was interrupted by sounds of explosions followed followed by screams.*

"S-someone help me... A-anyone..."

"Sir we found a survivor, status dying. She seems to be one of the Spear division we lost. And statistics shows she can be saved. But cost to do so is high"

"Then don't bother IW711. Wasting precious resources to save what's left of a tool that done its use is stupid. Just toss it into the grinder."

"Affirmative commander."

-Remains of the interrogation log of clone RA411, nicknamed "Ralia", a captured Reclaimer Spear. Autopsy indicated she was the first casualty when Reclaimers from her cell bombarded her holding cell, accuracy achieved due to a chip implanted in her neck, and had survived for roughly four hours in agony, with high chance of surviving with immediate medical attention.

Trivia

 * The Banner is based off the propaganda officer from C&C contra