History VideoGame / AnnoDomini

* MegaCorp: The Tycoons from ''2070.''

* ShoutOut: In ''1503'', your ship's commanders will occasionally reply to your orders with "Captain! My Captain!", echoing the famous Walt Whitman poem. Debatable whether it's also AnachronismStew.

* BourgeoisBohemian: The Eden Initiative in ''Anno 2070'' is an entire society of them. Lots of nature-lovers who at the same time benefit from and enjoy advanced technology, most of which is built with inefficient but sustainable methods.
* BreatherLevel: The seventh mission of the campaign in the 1404. After fighting for your life repelling Cardinal Lucius' attacks on your island you get a peaceful mission focused on building up an oriental town and going around doing quests.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The central villain of the 2070 campaign is the Super AI F.A.T.H.ER going rogue after a computer virus corrupts it.

* AntiPoopSocking: How about a coffee?
* BadBoss: Thor Strindberg, in 2070, is more interested in going ahead with the "Two Year Plan" than listening to his chief scientist say the hydroelectric dam will come crashing down if they try to install the new turbine and run it at full speed straight away instead of running tests. [[ForegoneConclusion Guess what happens next]].
* CherubicChoir: A part of 1404's normal soundtrack.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Implied in dialogue and the style of occidental religious buildings. Justified in 1503, which takes place before the Reformation (and Orthodox nations never did much colonizing the Caribbean). It's even more justified in 1404, a time period in which Catholicism was at its zenith.
* CommandAndConquerEconomy: Nothing gets done without your consent. Certain things can be automated, but you're free to intervine at any time.
* ContinuityNod: 1701 has Henrik Jorgensen, and 1404 has Leif Jorgensen. Their personalities and appearance are similar enough that one can assume that they are somehow related. 2070 continues with Tilda Jorgensen, who even notes that she comes from the lineage of the "great explorer" Leif Jorgensen.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: 2070 has an entire faction of them. The tycoons of Global Trust primarily care about the bottom line and have several unique technologies that let them take advantage of not caring about the environment, like strip-mining coal anywhere instead of wasting one of your precious mining slots for a coal mine. Factory Farming and fertilizers mean they have to spend very little space on agriculture as well and their populace doesn't care about a negative eco-balance. This may come to bite them in the backside when the natural disasters start hitting...
** Thor Strindberg is basically the worst of the lot though. More ecologically-minded members of Global Trust ''do'' have some fairly solid eco-balancing buildings available to them later on though, such as the Soil De-acidifier, which restores up to ''90'' points of eco-balance if it has no overlap with other De-acidifiers.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: While there is a noticeable absence of cybertech in Anno 2070, besides AIs that is, Global Trust definitely has this kind of aesthetic.

* DualWorldGameplay: In Anno 2070 you can build submarines which allow you to explore and colonize the deep sea.

** Completely averted in 1404, Grand Vizier Al Zahir is an honourable, caring, almost grandfatherly figure to everyone around him, and is not only loyal to the Sultan but also deeply grateful for his appointment as the Grand Vizier.
** And yet played straight with Cardinal Lucius who orders the Crusade during the ''unfortunate sickness'' of the Emperor.
* GlobalCurrency: Gold, which is. of course, TruthInTelevision.
** By ''2070'', the world will have switched to Credits.

* KickTheDog: In ''1404'', it can happen that a SmugSnake like Guy Forcas can declare war on you simply because you are currently ''less'' powerful than him, and he therefore (rightfully) identified as easy prey. Not only will he either not give you the chance to make peace at all (or only against an outrageous sum of money), but also will your trade partners (and ''allies''; even the mild and affectionate ones like van der Mark and Jorgensen) not help you to fight against him if they are allied to him as well. Instead, they will rather ''[[JerkAss hate and denounce you for letting yourselves get a war declared on]]'' [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure and even pull out of the defence contract entirely]]. [[SarcasmMode Gee, thanks for the help, guys!]]

* NukeEm: 2070 includes nuclear weapons. A World Event involves a group of [[RuthlessModernPirates pirates]] getting a hold of a bunch of them and threatening to blow everyone to hell.
** Also a big part of the campaign. The second chapter ends with finding out that the Super AI mentioned above has been stealing, among other things, the materials needed for nukes. The third chapter deals with the aftermath, with the area heavily impacted by radiation.
* OminousLatinChanting: the music for bad events like war or fire in 1404.
* {{Prequel}}: 1503 and 1404, naturally.
* TheProfessor: Ibn al Hakim in 1404
** AbsentMindedProfessor: Izmir in 1404, Salman Devi in 2070

** Mr. Thorne sort-of takes this role in 2070 despite his potentially ominous name, recognizing that Strindberg is almost entirely at fault for the [[BigDamPlot dam catastrophe]] and commending the player's role in containing the situation and helping control the other disasters that strike shortly after. He's not too happy if you side with the Eden Initiative, but he doesn't make any blatant threats like Strindberg.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction; More like ''instant'' construction.
** Inverted with Monuments, which can take hours to complete.
* ThemeNaming: All titles consist of "Anno" followed by a year, of which the sum is always 9 (1602, 1503, 1701, 1404 and 2070).

** In another case, in Anno 1503, a mob might sometimes attempt to topple your reign. However, they can be beaten down by your soldiers.

* SpeakingSimlish: Most of the soundtrack, especially in 1404.
* InfiniteSupplies: Any resource that comes out of the ground can be refilled with a substantial payment of gold.

*** 2070 mostly has finite supplies (though some sources are indeed infinite), but certain items that can be built by the tech faction or bought from AI players can refill the supplies for a hefty sum.
* TooDumbToLive: In the campaign of 2070, you help the tech faction come into possession of what is described as an intelligent virus. So far, it sunk the prototype of the city-ship arks and may have been responsible for several minor near-disasters. So... let's [[spoiler: plug it into F.A.T.H.E.R., the A.I. that rules the tech faction and administrates its city. What's the worst that could happen? Hint: You spend the rest of the campaign finding out.]]

* WanderingMinstrel: Leif Jorgensen is a wannabe bard, but his singing is terrible...

A.D., or simply Anno, is a series of city builder games by German developer Related Designs focussed primarily on the colonisation and development of a series of islands. It consists of (in order of release):

* Anno 1602
* Anno 1503: The New World
* Anno 1701
* Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery / When Cultures Meet
* Anno 2070

** By ''2070'', the world has switched to Credits and Licenses.

* KickTheDog: In ''1404'', it can happen that a SmugSnake like Guy Forcas can declare war on you simply because you are currently ''less'' powerful than him, and he therefore (rightfully) identified as easy prey. Not only will he either not give you the chance to make peace at all (or only against an outrageous sum of money), but also will your trade partners (and ''allies''; even the mild and affectionate ones like van der Mark and Jorgensen) not help you to fight against him if they are allied to him as well. Instead, ''[[JerkAss they will rather denounce you for letting yourselves get a war declared on]]'' [[ChangedMyMindKid and even pull out of the defence contract entirely]]. [[SarcasmMode Gee, thanks for the help, guys!]]

* KickTheDog: In ''1404'', it can happen that a SmugSnake like Guy Forcas can declare war on you simply because you are currently ''less'' powerful than him, and he therefore identified as easy prey. Not only will he either not give you the chance to make peace at all (or only against an outrageous sum of money), but also will your trade partners (and ''allies''; even the mild and affectionate ones like van der Mark and Jorgensen) not help you to fight against him if they are allied to him as well. Instead, ''[[JerkAss they will rather denounce you for letting yourselves get a war declared on]]'' [[ChangedMyMindKid and even pull out of the defence contract entirely]]. [[SarcasmMode Gee, thanks for the help, guys!]]

* KickTheDog: In ''1404'', it can happen that a SmugSnake like Guy Forcas can declare war on you simply because you are currently ''less'' powerful than him, and he therefore identified as easy prey. Not only will he either not give you the chance to make peace at all (or only against an outrageous sum of money), but also will your trade partners (and ''allies''; even the mild and affectionate ones like van der Mark and Jorgensen) not help you to fight against him if they are allied to him as well. Instead, ''[[JerkAss they will rather denounce you for letting yourselves get a war declared on]'' [[ChangedMyMindKid and even pull out of the defence contract entirely]]. [[SarcasmMode Gee, thanks for the help, guys!]]

** AbsentMindedProfessor: Izmir in 1404
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Emperor and Sultan - as well as their advisors, are like this in 1404.

*** 2070 mostly has finite supplies (though some sources are indeed infinite), but certain items that can be built by the tech faction can refill the supplies.

A.D., or simply Anno, is a series of city builder games by German developer Related Design focussed primarily on the colonisation and development of a series of islands. It consists of (in order of release):

A.D., or simply Anno, is a series of city builder games by German developer Blue Byte focussed primarily on the colonisation and development of a series of islands. It consists of (in order of release):