Grid battle on snow: Magogs vs Magi

Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition · Battle / Tactics

About this game

Developer: Dotemu · Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: HD-2D & retro 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

The battle as a ledger: the hex grid is the board, the purple badges are the stakes, and the combat log underneath narrates the arithmetic out loud — 52 damage, 2 Magi perish — so the player never has to guess what just happened. The war machines parked at the edge are a quiet reminder that the army brought luggage. Manual ffmpeg extract at 47.0s in Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD - Launch_US (Steam); the scene-change pass caught the neighbouring hero screen, not this hold. No trailer burn-in, caption, or logo on this frame. Caveat: the hex grid is faint on the snow; the badges, log and buttons carry the UI.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay grid-overlay status-row action-bar bottom-dock

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Badge Log Action bar

Screen inventory

a hex-grid battlefield on snow with unit count badges reading 40, 19, 9, 8, 32, 16, 2 and 4
the hero on horseback and the war machines (ballista, ammo cart, first-aid tent) at the left edge
a combat log reading The Magogs do 52 damage. 2 Magi perish. / The Magi do 15 damage.
an action bar along the bottom: options, flee, wait, attack, spellbook, hourglass, defend

Top 3 colors

#452b17 28%#d0d4dc 19%#c1c5ce 19%

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

Source and credit

© Dotemu / Ubisoft Entertainment, Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition screenshot: Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition - Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD - Launch_US (Steam) — Dotemu / Ubisoft, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Ubisoft Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: manual ffmpeg extract at 47.0s; full-res 1920x1080 review; unit badges, war machines, combat log text and all seven action buttons legible; settled-hold aHash+dHash dists 7 (46.5s) and 2 (47.5s), the tightest hold of the five; dense frames 46-47s show the same battle; aHash+dHash 126 vs nearest manifest item (papers-please-0 and shadow-gambit-the-cursed-crew-2); keeper-vs-keeper distances 217-298; no Heroes of Might and Magic III entry in manifest (1331 items).

No direct Dotemu video-use policy found and no live Ubisoft video-use policy found (searched 2026-11-06). Ubisoft's old standalone video policy page (help.ubi.com/video) now redirects to the Ubisoft homepage; the policy text survives only in a secondary source, theaveragegamer.com (Dec 2013): free to make videos (walkthroughs, Let's Plays, reviews) with Ubisoft game content, do not distribute assets separately, non-commercial use unless approved, do not charge viewers, do not sell or license videos, YouTube Partner Program monetization allowed, violations may lead to removal. Secondary, thirteen years old, not a live official page. Ubisoft's current Terms of Use (https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/termsofuse/en-US, verified live 2026-11-06) bars infringing content but contains no creator/video-use permission. A Steam EULA result surfaced in the Dotemu search (eula/657900_eula_0) cannot be attributed to Dotemu or this game (appid 657900 returns success:false from appdetails) and is not relied on. No Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition-specific fan-content guidelines found. Partial fit, stated plainly: the historical policy covers gameplay videos by individual users, not stills from official trailers on a fan study site. Fair-use fallback for Phase-2: frames are stills from the official Steam trailers, each with a study note (commentary), unofficial, not endorsed, copyright (c) Dotemu / Ubisoft, takedown honoured within 48h. Note: the underlying 1999 original is New World Computing (3DO, defunct) art and design, remastered by Dotemu for Ubisoft — a third rights layer that does not change the fallback.

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