Kingdom fiefs: Usanc Castle and its 400-influence proposal

About this game

Developer: TaleWorlds Entertainment · Publisher: TaleWorlds Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Diplomacy & Characters

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What to study

Bannerlord's kingdom layer is a spreadsheet that insists on being a court: the fief ledger gives every castle an owner with a face and a banner, and the dossier beside it mixes hard logistics (food stocks trending +11, walls at level 3, loyalty at 59.2) with the one political act the screen exists for, proposing that the fief change hands, priced at 400 influence with its current support shown as 0%. The lesson is in the adjacency: because the proposal button sits under the same stats that justify it, the player reads governance as a single act, know the place, know its lord, spend the influence. The five tabs (Clans, Fiefs, Policies, Armies, Diplomacy) make the same promise for the whole kingdom: one desk, every instrument of rule. Frame at about 0:50 in the Official Release Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, fine-probe frame relA_15 from the 42.5–52.5s window at 2 fps; the trailer cuts to the Clan screen's Members tab a second later, held as an alternate).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

data-table master-detail

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Banner List Data table Portrait

Screen inventory

• the Kingdom screen is one tab bar over everything a ruler administers, Clans, Fiefs, Policies, Armies, Diplomacy, headed by the kingdom name (Vlandia), its lion banner, the Leader's portrait and a red Leave Kingdom button in the corner
• the left half is a sortable ledger of the realm: Type, Name, Owner, Prosp., Defenders, Usanc Castle (569 prosperity, 51 defenders), Ormanford Castle, Hongard Castle, Verecsand Castle, Ocs Hall at 4224 prosperity and 192 defenders, every row carrying its owner's portrait and clan banner, so the table reads as people, not provinces
• the selected fief gets a dossier on the right: Usanc Castle's painted view, its owner Berican, and an icon-led stat list, Militia 212, Food Stocks 250 (+11), Garrison 51, Loyalty 59.2, Walls 3, Security 50.1, Prosperity 569.2 (+1), with its bound village, Usanc, named under its own heading
• politics is priced at the bottom: 'Bring forward the proposal to give this settlement to someone else (0%)' with a Propose button costing 400 influence, redistributing land is a button, a forecast support percentage and a currency, all on the same screen as the castle's food stocks

Top 3 colors

#32291d 21%#060503 20%#473b29 19%

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: manual extraction manual-fiefs-49.png @ ~49.5s in the Official Release Trailer, MD5 93dc2e6834e407ff06caa22e53740306, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (94,927,294 B, MD5 a65be9363994c1ccc2d1910939795b52; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-261550-Official-Release-Trailer.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the fief table, the Usanc Castle stat list and the 400-influence Propose button all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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