History VideoGame / AnnoDomini

* DeflectorShields: Crisis intervention missions in ''2205'' give you access to a range of support abilities for your ships, one of which utilizes ehergy shielding to make your fleet temporarily invulnerable. A fairly easy-to-acquire upgrade available through the Orbit DLC cuts the [[{{Mana}} fuel cost]] of this ability in half, enabling you to NoSell almost any damage coming your way.

* SpaceElevator: One of the tasks in ''Anno 2205'' is to build such a device in order to connect remote locations.

** ''2205'' does away with this mechanic completely. Each citizen class provides a specific amount of income and manpower for each of its needs that you fulfil. Make them happy and both values increase accordingly. Fail to meet their demands and they drop back to their "specific need unfulfilled" level, but that's about it. The only way to lose all income and manpower is to not supply ''anything'', which mostly happens if residences have no traffic connection, not enough heat in the Arctic, or incomplete DeflectorShields coverage on the Moon.

** Averted in ''2205''. The sector trading posts have ever-changing combinations of goods they're willing to buy, so while they technically ''do'' buy anything from you, you can't just hawk any surplus stores in your warehouse when you feel like it. The upside is that they often pay exceedingly well for things that can be produced en masse fairly cheaply, which makes it very easy to refill your cash reserves after expensive investments, like sector acquisitions or lunar expansions.

** Also from ''2205'', the Madrigal Islands sector project requires unbelievable amounts of resources for a reward that is pretty much useless (see the That One Siequest entry on the YMMV page for details). Chances are you'll complete it once for the achievement and won't ever touch it again in subsequent campaigns.

* 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. It's 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.

* DamageIsFire: Played straight with ships, but not so much with buildings - where fire from riots, invasion, or disasters ''damages'' buildings.

** In ''2205'' you have to balance temperate, arctic, and lunar facilities together in harmony.

** The Orbital Watch in ''2205'' employs swarms of unmanned [[ActionBomb Bomb Drones]] armed with powerful warheads for {{Suicide Attack}}s on your fleet. They're small and comparatively fragile, but their speed, numbers and sheer damage output makes them more dangerous than most actual warships.

** ''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.
*** Anno 2205 continues with Ville Jorgensen.
** One of the first major bonus missions in ''2205'' involves salvaging an "ancient A.I." that is recognizably an ARK from ''2070''.

** The Orbital Watch in ''2205'' employs swarms of unmanned [[ActionBomb Bomb Drones]] armed with powerful warheads for [[Suicide Attack]]s on your fleet. They're small and comparatively fragile, but their speed, numbers and sheer damage output makes them more dangerous than most actual warships.

* CoolBoat: Several of the ship designs in ''2070'' fit this trope. Special mention goes to the Colossus and Keto's ''Anaconda.''

** Every player controls one in ''2205'', and contends against others in the global council.

* {{DRM}}: Anno 2070 has multiple layers of DRM, as expected from an Creator/{{Ubisoft}} release. It allows three activations per copy, and the game as launched required a new activation whenever the PC's graphics card was swapped out. This was (by WordOfGod from Ubisoft) an intended feature, but the graphics card issue has since been patched out due to massive InternetBackdraft. Furthermore, an online connection is required to start up the game and to access certain special features related to the ark structure.

War is not the biggest factor, but it does happen. AI players can be allies and trade-partners, or non-trade opponents and enemies to fight. In many scenarios across the various games, the human player will have to eventually defeat the AI players with weapons and conquer their islands to proceed, typically via sending ships to their islands and bombard the city walls, then unload soldiers. Alternatively, but more difficult, one can try settling on the enemy island(s) and produce soldiers there directly.

''A.D.'', or simply ''Anno'', is a series of city builder games, originaly by the Austrian studio Max Design and later by Related Designs/Ubisoft Blue Byte Mainz when the former went Bankrupt, focussed primarily on the colonisation and development of a series of islands. It consists of (in order of release):

Each game has a 'Continuous Mode' wherein you can play as long as you want, competing with A.I. players (or other humans over multiplayer) for territory and resources, and a number of scenarios, often-times with several arranged to form a storyline. Players begin with a ship (or in some scenarios, a warehouse on an island) and a negative income. You have to build houses to collect taxes, but then your peasants want fish, and then they want something to occupy them... and so on.

* MagicRealism: The games are usually more or less realistic, at least until you defeat a native culture in war, upon which that culture will curse you with a strangely supernatural [[TakingYouWithMe parting gift]], like sudden droughts, locust epidemics, pestilence or tempests. It's never touched upon how it's possible, just that it happens invariably.

Each game has a 'Continuous Mode' wherein you can play as long as you want, competing with A.I. players (or other humans over multiplayer) for territory and resources, and a number of scenarios, often-times with several arranged to form a storyline. Players begin with a ship (or in some scenarios, a warehouse on an island) and a negative income. You have to build houses to collect taxes, but then your peasants want fish, and then they want something to occupy them.. and so on.

* 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.]]

*** on the Virus front, to be Fair, until that point, [[spoiler: Both your ark's EVE unit and F.A.T.H.E.R had recognised, and fought off, the Virus's attempts to gain access to their systems, and giving how disturbingly SMART it was acting (likely containing an AI component itself), they were trying to lock down its source on the assumption that there may be OTHER events caused by similar attacks.]]