Battle hexes: colour-coded tiles, glyphs, -27 damage flag

ENDLESS Legend · Battle / Tactics

Art style Stylized 3D

ENDLESS Legend - Battle hexes: colour-coded tiles, glyphs, -27 damage flag

About this game

Developer: AMPLITUDE Studios · Publisher: AMPLITUDE Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Endless Legend fights its battles on the same hexes it campaigns on, and refuses to open a single panel to do it. Allegiance is a wash of translucent colour poured into the tile, red, pink, teal, health is a slim vertical pike, damage is a red pennant with the number on it ('-27'), and each unit's nature is a white glyph printed on the floor of its own hex: tree, segmented disc, star-arrow. Even the double outline on the red hex is information, the footprint of a unit caught between where it stood and where the resolution left it. The result reads at trailer distance, mid-animation, with the camera low and tilted, proof the system was designed for the ground plane first and the interface chrome never. Frame at 0:54.4 in the Auriga Supplication Trailer.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

grid-overlay hud-overlay intent-icons

Components

Parts on screen.

Vitals bar

Screen inventory

  • translucent colour-filled hexes laid over the desert battlefield: a red hex holding six spearmen at lower left, pink hexes holding beast cavalry at upper right, a teal hex holding five robed staff-fighters at lower right, and a pale pink hex under the giant armoured brute at centre
  • a red pennant flag at upper left bearing the white damage readout '-27', with a slim black-and-blue vertical health pike planted beside it; matching black pikes with blue and red fills stand over two other hexes
  • white circular glyphs printed on the hex floors: a pine-tree icon, a segmented three-part disc, and a star-tipped arrow, repeated per unit
  • the red hex carries a second, offset red outline, the same unit shown mid-resolution, its target hex already claimed, while white motion streaks cross the brute's swing at centre
  • no panels, bars or buttons anywhere: every state is drawn on the ground or on a flag above it

Top 3 colors

#47463e 22%#8c7467 19%#a18a7d 18%

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

Source and credit

© AMPLITUDE Studios, ENDLESS Legend screenshot: Endless Legend - Auriga Supplication Trailer + Endless Legend - Dust to DUST Trailer (Steam), AMPLITUDE Studios, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by AMPLITUDE Studios.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: frame is a scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0010.png @ 54.35s) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Endless Legend - Auriga Supplication Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution; red / pink / teal translucent hexes, white hex-floor glyphs (pine tree, segmented disc, star-arrow), vertical health pikes and the red '-27' damage pennant all legible; no trailer caption, watermark or logo overlays the battle.

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