Battle ledger: Achios's Imperials against Eithne's Battanians

About this game

Developer: TaleWorlds Entertainment · Publisher: TaleWorlds Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

More Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord screens in the Gallery

What to study

This is the battle as its commander audits it: one keypress (the end-of-battle state of the same panel says 'press tab to view results') replaces a hundred individual fights with two facing ledgers, attackers and defenders, every troop type reduced to a row and every outcome to a number under a pictogram. The design discipline is what the panel refuses, no names for its columns, no modal chrome, no pause in the fighting behind its smoked glass, because the question it answers is asked under time pressure: who is winning, and which of my troop types is paying for it. A disclosure the frame itself makes necessary: this panel is from the Gamescom 2016 demo build, six years before release, the two-ledger idea, the icon columns and the party-headed rows all survived into the shipped game's battle results, in a rearranged form. Frame at about 3:18 in the Gamescom 2016 Siege Defence Gameplay video (Steam; scene-change survivor v1_0005).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-table split-panel data-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Data table

Screen inventory

• the whole battle is one translucent ledger laid over the fighting: Attacker Army on the left, Defender Army on the right, each headed by its party, Achios's Party for the Imperial attackers, Eithne's Party and a Dunglanys garrison row of zeros for the Battanian defence
• the columns have no words at all, only pictograms, a skull, a shield with a lightning bolt, a raised weapon, a standing figure, a sword, a chevron, six outcome counts per troop type that a player learns to read at a glance mid-battle
• every troop type is a row with its own small figure icon: Imperial Bowman 10, Imperial Light Infantryman 29, Imperial Horseman 17 on one side; Battanian Longbowman, Battanian Yeoman Longbowman (48 in the last column) and Battanian Heavy Infantryman 15 on the other, the siege's story is legible in which rows are long
• the panel stays a guest in the battle: the field and fortifications show through its dark glass, a red-and-green army balance bar runs along the very top edge of the screen, and a short row of filter buttons sits at the panel's bottom centre

Top 3 colors

#0e0a0b 21%#272021 20%#120d0e 17%

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

Source and credit

© TaleWorlds Entertainment, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord screenshot: Steam trailers (Official Release Trailer / Gamescom 2016 Siege Defence Gameplay), TaleWorlds Entertainment, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by TaleWorlds Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: scene-change survivor candidates/v1_0005.png @ 198.00s in the Gamescom 2016 Siege Defence Gameplay video, MD5 eeec82553dfb061ff07355f01d8b6b09, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (291,841,508 B, MD5 cde4a2acde2e458c73ad4d0f95ed4906; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-261550-Gamescom-2016-Siege-Defence.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); both army ledgers, the icon column heads and the party totals legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame (the video's 'GAMESCOM 2016 SIEGE DEFENCE' caption is burned in only during the deployment opening, ~9–14s, and does not appear here). The pipeline flagged v1_0007 (363.53s) as similar-band to this frame, checked visually: the same panel in its end-of-battle state with final totals and a 'Battle won' toast, held as an alternate rather than a second keeper

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-26); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.