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They announced the feature and some details and examples in the IGN livestream a few minutes ago, we also saw some nice footage from islands and ships.

EDIT: They now have it as a dedicated video without the need for a timestamped stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbGY0rJ80A

Base ship: https://imgur.com/yNERuY5

Extra sail: https://imgur.com/bd6H2mm

rowers: https://imgur.com/wlpQJya

archer towers: https://imgur.com/RmeXMdD

hull reinforcements (not shown)

catapult tower: https://imgur.com/bHjLMy6

Upgrades seem to come with benefits and trade-offs like less cargo space. Also given catapult towers did replace the extra sail in the video, i assume there are some limitations to how many upgrade you can do.

Hopefully a dev blog will come with better pictures later. Oh, they also talked about revealing more in April so i guess March will still be quiet.

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about 6 hours ago - /u/Ubi-Thorlof - Direct link

Originally posted by Strategist9101

Very pretty as expected and modular ships are a cool feature.

A bit disappointed by the depiction of this "Albion" and the idea that the Romans are "civilized" and they are not. I know Anno has always been about stereotypes but I like history and was hoping they would start to put some more effort into that part of the game

The Romans would definitely see it this way. How do we portray it in the game? - Well... let's wait and see.

about 6 hours ago - /u/Ubi-Thorlof - Direct link

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As I said, that's the view of the empire in Anno 117, but who knows how things are really looking like.