What is TOI missing? A rambling brainstorm session.

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FotB is out, against all odds.  It has re-ignited my interest in the TOI franchise and hopefully if enough other people feel the same way it can remain a viable franchise.  So some people hate these threads, I love them. It allows us fan to put in out two cents.  So what is the next step?  With aknowledgement of what, from our perspective, seems financially viable, I mean.

I am no WW2 history buff but I feel like some major elements are missing.  The most obvious being the Pacific theatre.  I can not remember who posted it but there was a recent discussion about how to handle the close-quarters fighting that I thought was excellent.  Jungle maps with some kind of cave system would be cool.  I'm also curious about an Italy based expansion but I don't know much about what degree of fighting that happened there.  Just what I saw in 'Patton,' basically.  An Iwo Jima expansion would be accaptable as a last theatre expansion in my mind.

I kind of want a Soviet version of Normandy as well. I was a bit dissapointed by the small number of infantry in the FotB expansion because I enjoy creating and playing large scenarios.  There is a whole different tactical rhythm going on when you play TOI on a large scale.  I would't mind a linked 'campaighn expansion.; perhaps the Soviet push to berlin? I am not well versed on the history but I'm sure others are.  Like Normandy incleded additional British troops, this could include another 14 squads of Russian troops and fifferent vehicles.  Additional winter/summer map boards and a linked scenario campaighn.  I just feel kind of ripped off for the price considering that FotB has no more stuff then the other expansions yet comes in an unnecessarilyu larger box and costs $20 more. I'd rather pay a little more cash out and have enough stuff to play a large variety of engagements on the eastern front.  FotB limits the size to medium engagements with loads of vehicles.  Then again maybe I'm in the minority wanting 16 board scenarios.

Beyond that a second scenario book is a must and possibly map packs.  Army packs maybe?  Even with no ore box expansions, the pacific theatre could be covered with a set of island/jungle maps with included scanarios and a set of plastic minis.  Maybe sell them as packs with 14 sqaud bases, 6 transport trucks, 6 half/track type vehicles and 6 each of two tanks?  They could be released for America, Britain, Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan and France.  The tool kit nature of the game should be amoped up I think.  More historically oriented war buffs could come up with other major theatres of conflict as well.  Were there major battles between Japan and China? That as an example could add a whole new element to the game.  map packs with a japanese army pack, a chinese army pack and some scenarios.

Please feel free to speculate with me, the more interest and excitement we show, the greater the chance we will see more TOI support.

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I like the idea of a pacific expansion, as well as maybe something involving army pack expansions. Because the Germans have a TON of tanks, while the Americans and British don't. Or maybe some experimental vehicles or something like that? Like the T-100 or whatever?