Quote Originally Posted by Ryanus
Has anyone else noticed this ?
From totalwar.com-"New Settlement Types
Build through six levels of settlement ranging from humble villages to vast cities and wooden forts to mighty stone fortress. Develop your faction as a feudal aristocracy using you castles to keep the peasants in check whilst conquering your enemies with your powerful armies. Or build cities to develop a wealthy urban society, and battle your foes with diplomacy, bribery, assassination and armies of mercenaries."
Sounds kinda like the EB government system. That'd really be the best way to represent the independent city leagues in the HRE without having an emergent faction in the middle of the HRE, which would be really difficult to pull off I'd think.

However, they may really just be talking about "castle".."fortified village"..."walled city" etc, in which case its nothing exciting. Hard to say from a press release.