Faction select: Vanguard race card, bonuses, commander model
Age of Wonders: Planetfall · Faction / Leader Select
Art style Stylized 3D
About this game
Developer: Triumph Studios · Publisher: Paradox Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Faction / Leader Select
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What to study
The faction-select screen, and the game's first-run promise in one frame: a full-body commander model on a display platform beside a race card that leads with flavour (rough folk, cryosleep, time dilation) and then lists the mechanical consequences as bonuses (starting and produced units at +1 Rank, firearms and laser weapon groups, drones and turrets), closing with an in-fiction recruitment poster. It sells the faction as identity first, stats second. Frame at about 0:37 in the Tyrannosaurus Update Trailer (Steam).
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
faction-panel character-presenter character-creator trait-list detail-panel
Components
Parts on screen.
Card Portrait Character model List
Screen inventory
- right race card: RACE header, Vanguard portrait icon with prev/next carousel arrows, VANGUARD headline, flavour text about rough folk and cryosleep time dilation
- bonus list: Starting Bonus (starting army units have +1 Rank), Long-Term Bonus (produced units have +1 Rank), Firearms Weapons Group, Laser Weapons Group, Deploy combat drones and turrets, Use of propaganda and military force, Powerful ranged units, weak melee capability
- FRONTIER AWAITS! JOIN THE VANGUARD NOW! poster at the card's base
- centre full-body Vanguard commander model on a display platform against a nebula backdrop with grid floor
Top 3 colors
#03080a 24%#131614 22%#192b2f 18%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© Triumph Studios / Paradox Interactive, Age of Wonders: Planetfall screenshot: Steam trailers (Gameplay Trailer, Release Trailer, Tyrannosaurus Update Trailer), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Paradox Interactive.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-11-04. verified 2026-11-04: scene-change candidate v2_0011.png at 37.017969s in the Tyrannosaurus Update Trailer, inspected visually at full resolution; race card text, bonus list, poster and commander model all settled and legible; no trailer caption in frame
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