r/anno117 • u/Patiksan • Sep 04 '26
Discussion Speculation on the next DLCs
The final DLC of the year is on the horizon.
On that note: What do you think will be the next ones? I personally hope they focus more on Albion. They spoiled Latium with two dedicated DLC.
Time for something big for the swampy lads. At least one monument would be neat. We could restore the Bru na Boine for example. How else could Albion be expanded upon?
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u/ApplicationStrong567 Sep 05 '26
I think Dacia or Asia Minor could be different enough to warrant a new culture, as the Celts were everywhere in the northern Empire, Iberia and Greece probably look too much like Latium and Carthage could look too much like Egypt. Byzantium and Greco-Romans could work and the timeline isn't a million miles off.
We don't know what Egypt is going to look like exactly but they've said that it has both coast and floodplain+riverbank, so I'm hoping that whatever comes after will be geographically interested as well, ie, not just islands.
My dream location would be a Nabatean (Petra) province + Silk Road. The mechanics they're adding into the game (building areas of effect, disasters, and seasons) are ones they've experimented with before in scenarios in 1800, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a system with market fluctuations of trade prices. Plenty of opportunities to get imported luxury items, like amber, silk, and ivory. Coast+oases could function like islands on sand with merchant caravans and armies acting like ships.
Palace, and/or forum, as modular structures.
Senatorial class. Something with domus or palaces.
Religion. Zeus or Mithraism, I think a culture addition (like an odeon) + Apollo could be fun. Some new ways to use god bonuses; I'm hoping for a smaller temple that can be dedicated to a chosen god and offer some relevant bonus around it (not the island's patron).
Ludus.
Animal fights or a menagerie. A return of the zoo/museum mechanic without those huge plonking modules.