Siege of Ab Comer Castle: 457 against 378 on the campaign map

About this game

Developer: TaleWorlds Entertainment · Publisher: TaleWorlds Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Campaign / World Map

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What to study

Bannerlord's siege is a state of the campaign map, not a separate mode, and this screen is the proof: the player is mid-decision on the same map they marched across, with the siege expressed as arithmetic (457 against 378, 17 days of food against 10), as construction (engine plots and a camp that takes time to build), and as politics (a relation with a named lord drops while the siege camp goes up, reported on the parchment ticker). The three options in the side panel are the whole verb set, assault it yourself, send the troops, or walk away, and the event log under the panel's painting keeps the world simulating while the choice is made: prisoners taken, skills gained. It is a strategy layer written as a place, not a menu. Frame at about 0:45 in the Official Release Trailer (Steam; manual extraction, no scene-change survivor covers this beat, the trailer reaches it by a map flyover; fine-probe frame relA_06 from the 42.5–52.5s window at 2 fps).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar side-panel alert-banner

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Log Portrait Character model Map Marker Vitals bar Resource bar Progress bar

Screen inventory

• the siege gets the whole top bar: 'Siege' centred over crossed swords, 457 against 378, on the left Urentur's Party with its portrait, lion banner and 17 days of food, on the right the defence split into Militia of Ab Comer Castle (262) and Garrison of Ab Comer Castle (116) with 10 days of food and the castle's 50000 treasury icon
• the decision lives in a left-hand panel laid over a painted siege scene: one sentence of situation ('You are besieging Ab Comer Castle. You are commanding the besiegers.') and three plain options, Lead an assault, Send troops, Leave, with the campaign's event log typeset under the painting (a prisoner taken in green, two skill gains in white)
• on the map the siege is literal construction: the castle model carries green wall-strength bars, four blue outline plots mark where siege engines will stand, a 'Building Siege Camp' progress bar fills under Urentur's 457-strong flag, and Derthert's Army waits at the right edge under its own banner
• nothing about the campaign pauses for the siege: a parchment ticker under the top bar reports 'Your relation is decreased by 5 to -5 with fen Caernacht', and the bottom chrome keeps the date (Autumn 3, 1084), the pause/play/fast-forward controls and the full resource strip (438k denars, 70% health, 457 troops, 380 food, 79 influence)

Top 3 colors

#26251b 20%#4a3f2f 20%#322f23 20%

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-siege-45.png @ ~45.0s in the Official Release Trailer, MD5 87dac31a4ea9f0c7e8006a1fbe16fcea, 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 Siege top bar, the Lead an assault / Send troops / Leave panel, the Building Siege Camp bar and the bottom resource strip all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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