sounds like speculation to me

anyway even if it´s true i doubt it will be better then the original europa barborum

i just hope they create a better game engine wich allows artists to develop it further
maybe add some more serious internet waygames so we can eventually retrace history and everyone of us can start with an independent city state in central italy or hellas and start from there (ofc it would all be solved with auto calc and you only had to login once a day to decide whats your "empire" next step )