Three Moves Ahead 642: Anno 117: Pax Romana

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Len and Jon are joined by But Why Tho?'s Kate Sánchez and CGMagazine's Dayna Eileen to build Rome in a day with Anno 117: Pax Romana. We discuss the series history and our jumping-on points with it, what's different about this one, and how it serves as an interesting lens through which to view the height of the Imperial Era.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Lynn. I'm your host. I am here with John Bolding.
0:06.9	Howdy, everybody. And we have two first-time special guests on this episode, editor-in-chief of But Why, though, Kate Sanchez.
0:17.4	Hi.
0:18.8	And the executive editor over at CG magazine, Dana Eileen.
0:23.8	That's me.
0:24.9	Hello.
0:26.5	And we are here to talk about Ano 117, the latest in the long-running franchise that takes us back to the height of the imperial era of Rome.
0:39.9	I guess the principate, if you want to get really specific with it.
0:45.8	I think the guy that his emperor is supposed to be Adrian or Trajan, maybe like an analog for
0:53.6	one of those guys. I don't know. Well, we don't,
0:56.7	we don't have any of the super duper Rome nerds on. So we'll have to consult Brett or, uh, uh,
1:03.3	Troy about that maybe. I, I just like Rome. I will not call myself a nerd. I'm like,
1:08.8	you know what? Good aesthetic. Yeah. I'm here for the aesthetic. I will not call myself a nerd. I'm like, you know what? Good aesthetic.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:13.0	I'm here for the aesthetic.
1:19.7	I will say when that whole meme about like thinking about the Roman Empire was going around as like the dude thing. And I was like, am I dude?
1:21.5	Yeah.
1:21.9	Yeah.
1:22.0	I was like, I really like Rome and I blame watching Gladiator really young and also all of like the iterations of, actually Zena.
1:34.1	It wasn't even glad.
1:34.9	It was Zena.
1:35.5	It was me falling in love with Lucy Lawless as Zena.
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