Selbitz Retinue: recruit cost, a quirk, and personalization around one retainer

About this game

Developer: Slavic Magic · Publisher: Hooded Horse · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Character / Unit Detail

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What to study

The lord's household troops get the screen usually reserved for an RPG party. The Selbitz Retinue stands at 6 of 12, its members a row of helmet medallions, and the selected retainer stands full-length at centre, Cuntz, in a parti-coloured blue-and-grey gambeson, spear in hand, while the interface works around him. The hovered action is economic rather than heroic: RECRUIT MEN-AT-ARMS costs 50 from the TREASURY, 'to hire a retainer who already owns basic military equipment', measured against the 147 shown under his feet. His whole record is two lines, a quirk, 'Steals anything that catches his eye', and a skull-marked Defeated foes tally, and his future is four locked tiers of slots (I–IV) plus Armor upgrades. At the right, Personalization turns the soldier into heraldry: Body, Weapon, Block, Helmet and Accessory stepped through with arrows and colour swatches, so a retinue can be told apart on the field by its livery alone. Frame at about 1:10 in the Launch Trailer video (Steam), manually extracted at 70.0s: the scene-change pass emitted no frame inside the retinue segment (its neighbours are the night camp at 65.5s and the battle at 85.7s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

character-presenter paper-doll

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Slots Button prompts Tooltip

Screen inventory

• header block at left: 'Selbitz Retinue', the region name Selbitz, and the strength readout 6 / 12
• a row of six helmet medallions for the current retainers (the last highlighted), with an equipment icon row beneath (armour, garment, sword and axe glyphs)
• the hovered RECRUIT MEN-AT-ARMS tooltip card: 'Cost: 50' with a treasury icon, and the explanation 'Pay from your TREASURY to hire a retainer who already owns basic military equipment.'
• four locked rows of circular slots labelled I, II, III and IV below the tooltip, the retinue's locked progression tiers
• the selected retainer standing full-length at centre in a parti-coloured blue-and-grey padded gambeson and steel cap, holding a long spear; the treasury figure 147 sits under his feet, over the CLOSE prompt
• the right column names him, Cuntz, with a character quirk in italics, 'Steals anything that catches his eye', and a skull-and-crossbones 'Defeated foes' line
• Armor upgrades: two upgrade icons and a shield slot reading 0
• Personalization rows, Body, Weapon, Block, Helmet, Accessory, stepped through with arrow buttons, the Body and Block rows carrying paint-brush colour swatches (blue, pale grey, red on Body)

Top 3 colors

#0b0a07 34%#090906 28%#0f0e09 21%

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

Source and credit

© Slavic Magic / Hooded Horse, Manor Lords screenshot: Launch Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Hooded Horse.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: frame manually extracted at 70.0s from the pipeline-downloaded Launch Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game retinue screen confirmed settled and legible (unit name and 6/12 count, the full recruit tooltip text and cost, the quirk line, all five Personalization row labels and the treasury figure all readable; a probe at 71.0s shows the same screen on the next retainer (Fritz, 7/12) with an armor-import tooltip, bracketing the segment; the filmstrip frame at ~70s matches); this Launch Trailer version carries NO 'WORK IN PROGRESS' watermark, that burn-in appears only in the older Release Date Trailer's version of the same screen, the only corner text is the game's own EARLY ACCESS (0.6.96) version mark

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