Battle HUD: round counter, Hanke's unit card, turn-order row

About this game

Developer: Overhype Studios · Publisher: Hooded Horse / Overhype Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Battle Brothers' battle screen spends its chrome on exactly three questions: whose turn is it, what just happened, and what can this man still do. The turn question is answered twice, as a portrait row along the bottom with the active brother enlarged, and as arithmetic at the top: a round medallion flanked by the living strength of both sides, 11 against 9, so the fight's score is always a headcount of the men you are trying not to lose. What happened lives in a two-line combat log that refuses abstraction, it names Helfrich, and distinguishes his armour being hit for 17 from his body being hit for 6, because in this game that difference is the whole damage model. What Hanke can do is compressed into one dense card: action points in orange (9/9), fatigue (3/89), morale as a word in green ('Steady'), two armour values and hitpoints in red, with his four skills riding at the card's shoulder and the end-turn controls at the row's far end. The field itself stays clean, tokens on a faint hex grid, the company's cart at centre, corpses marking the rounds already spent. Frame at 1:09.9 in the Launch Trailer (scene-change survivor v1_0003).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay top-bar portrait-row status-row battle-controls

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Banner Grid Log Portrait Map

Screen inventory

• the top-centre round medallion reading '2', flanked by the two forces' living strength as headcounts: a blue banner icon with 11 for the company, a skull with 9 for the enemy
• the combat log pinned at top left, two lines that name names: 'Helfrich's body armor is hit for 17 damage' and 'Helfrich's body is hit for 6 damage', with a small collapse arrow at its corner
• a row of five small square utility buttons at top right, ending in a close X
• the active brother's unit card at bottom left, HANKE: an orange action-point bar at 9/9, fatigue 3/89, morale 'Steady' in green, two armour values (110/110 and 80/80) with shield icons, and hitpoints 60/60 in red
• four skill icons at the unit card's right shoulder, and at the far right of the bottom row a circular-arrow end-turn button and a check button
• the turn-order row along the bottom: seven brother portraits in initiative order, the active man's portrait enlarged and overlaid with his weapon and shield
• the field itself is nearly bare of chrome: bust-style tokens on a faint hex grid, a supply cart and donkey at centre, corpses and blood where earlier rounds fell, and fog of war blacking out the map's edges

Top 3 colors

#544b27 25%#554729 20%#120f0b 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Overhype Studios / Hooded Horse / Overhype Studios, Battle Brothers screenshot: Launch Trailer (Steam), Overhype Studios, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse / Overhype Studios.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: frame is a scene-change survivor (candidates/v1_0003.png @ 69.94s) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Launch Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution; the round '2' medallion with 11 vs 9 headcounts, the two-line Helfrich combat log, Hanke's unit card (9/9 AP, 3/89 fatigue, Steady, 110/110 and 80/80 armour, 60/60 HP), the four skill icons and the turn-order portrait row all legible; the shim candidate is byte-identical to the stock pipeline run's frame (all 14 candidates MD5-match across the two runs); no trailer caption, watermark or logo overlays the frame

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