Siege HUD: five unit cards, battering rams at the wall

About this game

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

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What to study

The siege as a roster: five unit cards with their counts sit beside a six-button command grid, so the whole attacking force is a row of shields and the orders are a grid of icons, while the battering rams do the work on the wall above. The scribe's book reads 100 popularity even mid-siege, the game insisting the economy never leaves the screen. Manual ffmpeg extract at 40.5s in the Reveal Trailer (Steam); the scene-change pass missed this shot. No trailer burn-in, caption, or logo on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

battle-controls bottom-dock unit-cards unit-card-row minimap-preview book-interface squad-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Grid Portrait Minimap Resource bar

Screen inventory

• a bottom command bar with a lord portrait, a blue-and-white shield, and a fist icon
• a 2x3 command grid with attack, hold, rally, and tool icons
• five unit cards with counts: archer 24, swordsman 6, spearman 1, maceman 9, crossbowman 13
• a minimap at bottom right with a white viewport rectangle
• the hooded scribe advisor at bottom right holding an open book reading 100, 8160 gold, and 0/0 population
• the world above the bar: four battering rams pressed against the stone wall, defenders on the battlements, attackers massing on the field

Top 3 colors

#635e3b 23%#616a32 22%#504832 19%

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

Source and credit

© Firefly Studios, Stronghold: Definitive Edition screenshot: Stronghold: Definitive Edition - Launch Trailer and Reveal Trailer (Steam) — Firefly Studios, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios.

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 40.5s; full-res 1920x1080 review; lord portrait, command grid, all five unit cards and counts, minimap, and scribe's book (100 / 8160 / 0-0) legible; 5 fps strip 39.5-42.5s: consecutive dists 2-11 throughout, a settled hold; dense frames 40-42s show the same bar; aHash+dHash 189 vs nearest manifest item (wasteland-2-3); same-series stronghold-4-2 at 295; no Stronghold: Definitive Edition entry in manifest (1321 items).

WhoLetsPlay lists Firefly Studios (Library: Stronghold Series, Stronghold Kingdoms) as YES with no conditions, citing Firefly's Terms (wholetsplay.com, checked 2026-11-06); the linked Firefly terms page no longer serves the policy text, so the primary source could not be re-verified this run. Fair-use fallback for Phase-2: frames are stills from the official Steam trailers, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honoured within 48h.

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.