Back banners for squads

[Blissful Brushes]

Howdy one and all!

 

I’m having a bit of a dilemma about back banners for my Luna Wolves.

 

I’m making a mechanised force - combo of sicarans and razorback/rhino mounted infantry. My squads are organised into platoons of 6 squads of 6, with one of those squads being the command squad.

 

I had originally envisioned just the command squad having a back banner, representing the platoon but realistically I’m probably not going to get more than 2 platoons at the rate I model and paint so I was pondering switching to having a back banner for each 6 man squad and something a little bit more substantial for the command squad. 
 

What do people think? Part of me think 5 back banners and something handheld for  36 marines seems a bit flashy/much but the flip side is that there’s going to be a lot of vehicles which might drown out the infantry a little bit. 
 

This is the crew so far (yes I use primaris, don’t judge me I just like the proportions a bit more and I greenstuff them back to HH as best I can)

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

Personally, I like the idea of having a back banner for each squad and something different/bigger for the command squad. I put vexilas in nearly every squad.

But depends of the back banner you are planning to use. An actual vexila or something more W40K 2nd/3rd edition?

 

[Sonder76]

I am all for back banners but i tend to try and use them "sensibly".

 

Back banners on stealthy troops is probably a bit counter productive it in my opinion and back banners on my Space Hulk Terminators seems like a silly move... its just gonna hit every cross beam and get stuck on a door.

Pendants only on fast attack troops as i dont want my fast attack trooper flying off like he is paragliding.

1 banner per squads is my usual limit however if its a fantasy regiment a main standard bearer and maybe a couple of personal back banners looks good.

 

Again... IMO.

[LameBeard]

I feel there is a compromise here: we assume each squad is actually a Demi-squad and give half the squads back banners. Still a bit awkward on the rhino door but rule of cool trumps all.