Extra content for the main game in the expansion pack?

[Basileos Leandros I]

For the past 4 TW games, the expansion packs have not added anything to the main game campaign, save for a couple of AI improvements and bug fixed. STW and MTW both had extra units and content added to the main campaign, so I personally would like to see extra content for the main campaign when the expansion for S2TW release.

Some people would prefer to leave it at that, hence why Kingdoms was so popular because it offered a completely different flavour from the main campaign.

Thoughts?

[Nicolaos]

im totally with you, thought it was pretty annoying to have the kingdoms campaign and all the additional units but not in the grand campaign...

[Blitz66]

I would much prefer more additions to the main campaign, rather than the stand alone scenarios recent expansions have offered.

Or at the very least, multiple stand alone scenarios like Kingdom's 4, opposed to Empire and Napoleon's single scenario expansions.

I find myself firing up a main campaign in both Empire and Napoleon far more often than playing through Warpath or the Peninsular Campaign.

[Abe86]

I agree, to me the grand campaign is the meat of the series, and I wont buy expansions that dont add gameplay to it.

[R.G.S.]

+1.

Totally agree, I want stuff that adds to the GC and *not* standalone style mini-campaigns. I'm not saying these minis haven't been well done in previous games, just that for me the GC is 'where it's at' and I'd like to see that fleshed out and expanded upon as much as possible.

(I will still buy the addons though either way as TW is still very good, I just wish that they would integrate more and have felt dissapointed in the past when they have not).

[IGdood]

At least thanks to mods people can add units from the little campaigns into the grand campaign.

The only time when extra content from expacks was added to the grand campaign was with Viking Invasion and MTW.

[AngryTitusPullo]

The only expansions that I have enjoyed and played was Viking Invasion for MTW. I got BI for RTR 7 and Kingdoms for Retrofit. Did get both DLC campaigns for ETW and NTW though I didn't actually manage to finish any of those campaigns yet.

[Amaranthen]

I would like to see some more units for Shogun 2, such as more variety in terms of infantry. or at LEAST release playable factions.

[Selahedîn]

I don't know. As much as I would like to see the main campaign improved, I really can't see the need for any major additions. It's a pretty solid game as is and I still think more units would just add further historical inaccuracies.

I would much rather have a well-designed Imjin War expansion, to be honest. Maybe with a "what if" scenario, stretching into China. That would be so awesome...

[Basileos Leandros I]

I don't know. As much as I would like to see the main campaign improved, I really can't see the need for any major additions. It's a pretty solid game as is and I still think more units would just add further historical inaccuracies.

I would much rather have a well-designed Imjin War expansion, to be honest. Maybe with a "what if" scenario, stretching into China. That would be so awesome...

You can always improve. Sure, it's tidbits by now, but those tidbits could really improve your campaign.

The expansion pack will always include a different scenario, but I want it to include improvements for the main as well. The MTW VI expansion pack was brilliant in this case.

[Selahedîn]

You can always improve. Sure, it's tidbits by now, but those tidbits could really improve your campaign.

Well, they could always let me play as the Satake. That would be a nice minor improvement right there.

[homefry]

retrofit mod for med 2 was awesome.

[Daily]

I would like a larger world. Get some of the landmass to the west unlocked. And more trade and make sea fighting more dominant. Still have the clans but have the option to take some Asian land for yourself

[Aonghus G. Friedhold]

I agree, Empire's expansion was not worthwhile, because once you'd played it once, it got boring. I mean, sure it was fun to play as Napoleon the first time, but there are better thing CA could've had as Empire's expansion than Napoleon. I don't want the expansion for Shogun to be like... Tokugawa, or something like that. It should be more replayable than that. I'd like if they added Korea and some places like that to the already existing campaign.

edit: I just thought of a good one. It'd be called "Cardinal Invasion" and it would make the map face the tradition cardinal directions for a map (N:Top, E:Right, etc.) Also a bunch of priests.

[C.Maximus]

I just want mongol invasion, although, HA arnt that effective due to the new system, they cant shoot backwards while running away

[Basileos Leandros I]

I just want mongol invasion, although, HA arnt that effective due to the new system, they cant shoot backwards while running away

From one side, the Mongol Invasion wasn't even an Invasion, they were prevented twice from arriving on land.

A remake of the original MI won't be up on the list of possible candidates for the expansion pack. Perhaps the Korean War of Toyotomi.

[Babaganoush]

Howitzers? In MY samurai battles?

[Pharoah]

Mongol invesion 2

[nannoj]

i just want them to divide the provinces to smaller regions... imagine having your own battle of sekigahara or battle at kawanakajima* not battle of kai, battle of kyoto

[Saor Alba]

Would love to have more of region included in the main campaign. The Korean peninsula and Hokkaido would be great.