Battle HUD: +65 requisition over the diamond minimap

About this game

Developer: KING Art Games · Publisher: Deep Silver · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

A classic Dawn of War HUD rebuilt around glanceability: the economy lives in one corner as stock-plus-rate, the army lives along the bottom as portraits rather than a list, and the map is a diamond, rotated to match the isometric battlefield so north on the minimap is up-screen. The floating squad icons do the quiet work, in a 60-unit brawl you read classes, not models, and the capture radius is drawn on the ground itself instead of explained in a tooltip. Frame at about 2:14 in the Gameplay Overview Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0025.png at 134.4s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

top-bar portrait-row status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu Portrait Minimap Vitals bar Pips

Screen inventory

• top-left: the two resources as icon, stock and income rate, requisition 914 +50 (325), power 11 +22 (7), income shown as a rate with its cap in parentheses, economy readable at a glance mid-fight
• the battlefield itself carries the second layer: every squad wears a small floating class icon (sword, shield, cog), a capture point shows its +65 gain as a floating numeral inside a blue control radius
• bottom-left: the minimap as a rotated diamond in a spiked frame, blue and red force blobs, the camera frustum drawn as a green trapezoid
• bottom-centre: the army as a strip of unit portraits with health bars and class pips, a '0 | 5 Reserve' counter and a Build Menu strip at bottom-right with three ability icons

Top 3 colors

#2b2017 21%#73543c 18%#8f6d4f 17%

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

Source and credit

© KING Art Games / Deep Silver, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV screenshot: Gameplay Overview Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Deep Silver.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0025.png, 134.4s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled battle HUD, resource bar, squad icons, minimap and unit strip sharp and legible

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