Voidship battle: officer posts, hull diagram, 155/155

About this game

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

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What to study

Voidship combat is Rogue Trader's second tactics game, and its HUD argues it is the same game wearing a bigger hull: the portrait bar stops being a warband and becomes a bridge crew, six named offices, each with a portrait, a title and its own ability column, while the unit card at the centre stops being a person and becomes a facing diagram, PROW / PORT / DORSAL / RIGHT around a 155/155 hull bar. The transfer is the lesson: turn queue at the left, active-unit plate, base plates under ships, end-turn skull at the corner, a player who has learned the ground game's grammar can read a naval battle on sight, and the only genuinely new information (which arc of your ship faces the guns) is given the place of honour in the middle of the bar. Frame at about 1:15 in the 1st release trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v1_0008).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

officer-bar ship-diagram portrait-queue ability-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Portrait Marker Gauge Build queue

Screen inventory

• the bottom bar becomes the bridge: a cathedral-facade strip of officer stations, each a portrait with its title lettered beneath, SUPREME COMMANDER, MASTER OF ORDNANCE, ENGINSEER PRIME at left; MASTER HELMSMAN, WARP GUIDE, MASTER OF ETHERICS at right, every post flanked by its own column of ability icons, several lit green or blue for available
• the ship itself is the centre of the bar: a schematic cluster labelled PROW at top, PORT and RIGHT at the sides, DORSAL below, with the hull read out as 155/155 over a long green hull bar, the vessel's facing arcs are the unit card, because in void combat which arc faces the enemy is the decision
• the left queue works exactly like the ground game's: enemy skull plates stacked above the hover plate for the acting ship, 'Rogue Trader, 155/155', and the battlefield marks targets the same way too, the burning enemy vessel standing on a red rectangular base plate while the player's cathedral-prowed ship holds station by the planet
• threat is lettered in the sky: red skull markers ride at the top of the frame over the sun, and the same right-edge icon rail and green-skull end-turn dial ('Space') close the frame, one chrome language for infantry and starships alike

Top 3 colors

#151831 31%#0f0c26 18%#322a2d 15%

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

Source and credit

© Owlcat Games, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader screenshot: Steam trailers (Release trailer / 1st release trailer), Owlcat Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Owlcat Games.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: scene-change survivor candidates/v1_0008.png @ 75.23s in the 1st release trailer, MD5 18b61b122ddc649f5a92b8ea62671a48, from the stock Steam download (101,010,018 B, MD5 5b68e624db783c46e84324eb7bd6c86b; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-evidence/decode-v1-full.err and decode-v1-full2.err, two independent full decodes), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); all six officer titles, the PROW/PORT/DORSAL/RIGHT schematic, both 155/155 hull readouts and the left ship queue legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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