Battle board: stone bridge, unit banner 8/3
The Banner Saga · Battle / Tactics
Art style Painterly illustration
About this game
Developer: Stoic · Publisher: Stoic Studio · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Battle / Tactics
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What to study
The board as broken terrain: the 8/3 banner marks one fighter, red outlines mark dredge on the far side, and the blue ring marks the active unit on a cracked stone bridge over a chasm, so position and facing read through the gaps in the ground itself. Fallen fighters show the fight's progress without any separate results panel. Frame at about 53.5s in the Launch Trailer (Steam). No trailer burn-in or caption on this frame.
Patterns
How the screen is arranged.
hud-overlay grid-overlay status-row
Components
Parts on screen.
Screen inventory
- a floating unit banner above a fighter reading 8/3 with a willpower star
- red enemy tile outlines and a blue active-unit ring on the stone bridge
- a wide movement outline around a green-clad fighter at the left
- fallen dredge and human fighters scattered across the broken stone
- a chasm edge and a wooden barricade framing the board
Top 3 colors
#233045 26%#000000 24%#101929 20%
Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.
Source and credit
© Stoic / Stoic Studio, The Banner Saga screenshot: Launch Trailer and Announcement Video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Stoic Studio.
Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page
Source details
Fetched 2026-10-31. verified 2026-10-31: frame inspected visually at full resolution; 8/3 unit banner, red tile outlines, blue active ring, and stone bridge terrain all legible; frame from the official Launch Trailer on Steam
no published fan-content policy found for Stoic (checked 2026-10-31); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h
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