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I'm immensely excited for a Roman Anno game!! In the Ubisoft Forward livestream I noticed something that I haven't seen anyone talk about yet:

"For the first time in Anno, you will be able to choose your starting province. Either the mysterious Celtic wetlands of Albion where no civilised Roman wants to be. Or, the traditional Roman heartlands, Latium, close to the hungry heart of the empire" (1:10:10 in the livestream)

I think this is very interesting and I am wondering how it will impact game progression.

What are everyone's thoughts on this?

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10 months ago - /u/Ubi-Thorlof - Direct link

Originally posted by Temeraire02

Due to the claim that you can stay in a session, I am guessing that you can build either native residences AND/OR Roman residences (as colonizers). So if you start in Albion and choose to build natively, you don't necessarily need to import from Latium, but if you want to increase Roman rule (or some mechanic) then you gotta ship that olive oil up north.

Presumably there will be a mechanic almost like eco balance (cultural balance?) that weighs Celtic residences against Roman colonizer residences and maybe you'll have rebellions if the balance is off.

Very interesting theory.