Battle preview: Valder vs Mercia, Turn 8, groove meters

Wargroove · Battle / Tactics

Art style Pixel art

Wargroove - Battle preview: Valder vs Mercia, Turn 8, groove meters

About this game

Developer: Chucklefish · Publisher: Chucklefish · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Wargroove's battle intro is a staged versus screen, not a damage popup: the turn counter and both commanders' names sit on a shared banner, each side gets a portrait plus a segmented groove meter, and the two armies pose on their own terrain before combat resolves. The book frame and dimmed map behind it keep the fiction that battles happen inside the campaign's storybook. Frame at about 0:08 in the Gameplay Trailer - Release (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

dual-panel-combat character-portraits health-bars charge-bars

Components

Parts on screen.

Portrait Vitals bar Gauge

Screen inventory

  • top banner: Turn 8, VALDER (blue) versus MERCIA (red)
  • split battlefield: Valder's skeletal spearmen on snow at left, Mercia's harpies in the sky at right
  • commander portraits in the bottom corners with groove meters and +0 modifiers
  • book-style frame with the dimmed tactical map visible behind it

Top 3 colors

#3c3d61 20%#69748c 19%#456d98 18%

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

Source and credit

© Chucklefish, Wargroove screenshot: Steam trailers (Gameplay Trailer - Release, Launch Trailer), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Chucklefish.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-04. verified 2026-11-04: scene-change candidate v0_0002.png at 8.367969s in the Gameplay Trailer - Release, inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); banner, both armies, both portraits and both groove meters all settled and legible; no trailer caption in frame

no published Chucklefish fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-04; the only related Chucklefish document surfaced is the Wargroove Community UGC Policy, Steam EULA page, last updated 1 November 2018, which governs player-created in-game content standards, not third-party screenshot or trailer-frame use); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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