Multiplayer lobby: Edmon's lobby, Oil Rush, AI-filled enemy team

About this game

Developer: Steel Balalaika · Publisher: Slitherine Ltd. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Faction / Leader Select

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What to study

The lobby is two rosters facing each other: blue Friendly Forces against red Enemy Forces, each slot a player card with portrait, rank, flag and battlegroup, and AI fill-ins named and flagged like humans so a 1v5 still reads as a match. The launch gate is honest about why it will not fire — Players ready 1/5, A mandatory slot is empty in red — and the map card, difficulty, faction flags and chat all share the same screen instead of hiding behind tabs. Frame at 0:48 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam). Classified faction-select per the Command & Conquer Remastered and Wargroove multiplayer lobby precedents.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel roster-list portrait-row top-bar status-row action-list

Components

Parts on screen.

List Card Portrait

Screen inventory

• Edmon's lobby for the Oil Rush map, with a Private Lobby toggle and three-step Difficulty selector
• FRIENDLY FORCES column (blue A) against ENEMY FORCES (red B): player cards with portraits, names, lvl 1, Private rank, Russian flag and a Battlegroup dropdown
• enemy team filled with five AI players — Ivan, Denis, Serega, Evgeniy and Iron Maks — each on AI: Guard Tank Briga… battlegroups
• Mandatory slot and Free slot rows with padlocks; LAUNCH header reads Players ready 1/5 with the red warning A mandatory slot is empty
• right chat panel, No messages yet, Write to everyone field, WAIT LIST and Join waitlist
• faction flags under FRIENDLY FORCES and ENEMY FORCES, both set to ANY
• BROKEN ARROW trailer watermark bottom left (trailer branding, disclose); dev build string 0.9.61.b bottom right (disclose)

Top 3 colors

#141212 19%#100f0f 18%#2a2623 18%

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

Source and credit

© Steel Balalaika / Slitherine Ltd., Broken Arrow screenshot: Gameplay Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Slitherine Ltd..

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: manual extraction at 48.0s from the official Steam Gameplay Trailer (dense filmstrip), inspected visually at full resolution; both team columns, all five AI player cards, mandatory-slot warning and chat panel confirmed legible

no published Slitherine/Steel Balalaika fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-06); fair-use study/commentary use, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honored within 48h

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.