Opening Salvo - USS Terror and Tsugaru

This will likely be the last expansion deck of this type. We are running out of units. If this forum holds together the next project we make could add something completely new. I hope when this deck is finished we all discuss what we want to see added in the future.

FYI I have produced my own cards. 
Also I'm already working on a bigger and better project.

Do you realise how hard it is to participate when the forum is run by an "elite" inner circle, us normal members are ignored and shut down every time.

We are giving you input and participating the only way us lower class members can right now and we're being ignored and shut down.

You just don't get it.

you add new mechanics into the game by adding new units that use those mechanics.
RB added a new mechanic/unit type by introducing Installations.
He also introduced nation specific SA's that skirted the Red vs Blue rules. However Weeds is steadfastly refusing to follow in RB's footsteps.
The Forum introduced the Me262 and Meteor missing out an opportunity to introduce a new aircraft type - Jets. you wouldn't be introducing anything that RB hadn't already done.
The Jake, AR169 and Walrus are already represented in the game as an SA Floatplane Detachment. But if we had to introduce them separately from that SA we could have "expanded" the Floatplane Detachment SA so that they could be nation specific version of that SA that could be attached to battleships and cruisers. This isn't anything that doesn't already exist in the game after all that's exactly what carrier Aircraft are, a card that you attach to a carrier the only difference is that the unit is represented by a mini and not a token like Floatplane Detachment.

In a discussion about the B-29 I once suggested the ability to destroy an objective so no player gets the points. A Forum Xspurt shot down the suggestion because he didn't like the idea of destroying objectives regardless of the fact that when you claim an objective it already represents either capturing it, destroying it, raiding it, pillaging it. the only difference with my suggestion was that no points were awarded.

Like I said to introduce new mechanics you have to introduce new units to use those mechanics. With so many units already introduced we have a lot less opportunities to introduce new mechanics.

Admiral cards and will be a new unit type/SA that will most likely have to be nation specific, good luck with getting that past the Weeds/Forum.
Upgrade cards will have to be SA's that will be unit specific let alone nation and faction specific. You will need even more luck with that one.

All your ideas are good ones but we have missed so many opportunities for expansion the forum has painted itself into a corner.

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Feb 22, 2021 15:29:08 GMT 8 raevski said:
Concepts= mine laying subs and more nations

Units that lay mines were already in the game so aren't new and RB introduced new nations so exactly what is original about this.

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Feb 22, 2021 15:29:08 GMT 8 raevski said:
Mechanics = mostly in the shape on new SAS Ange there are plenty of them

SA's already exist in the game and there were plenty of them before you guys added more.
SA's aren't mechanics. They as a whole are a mechanic that already exists thanks to RB.

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Feb 22, 2021 15:29:08 GMT 8 raevski said:
New units = Forward air base has changed game play forever. I am particularly proud of that one.

The FAB is an installation a new unit type that RB introduced with the HSB. I'm glad you mentioned it because it demonstrates how the game can benefit from real Expansion. Without it you guys could't have introduced the ANB and FAB so the credit should go to RB.

You've been the Forum awhile and I hope that was just a Rant.

  If you like the game, expansions is the only thing that is going to keep it not alive, but vibrant.

I believe its on how you look towards expansion thats the question, yes kudos to those that have tried and believe me to me every unit the Teams did that SWO did I play SWO's

 But again one mans option about expanding the game belongs to the designer, a more accurate plan for keeping it alive belongs to the Forum.

When it began the teams seem to be the answer, but we all know by deck 4 more of the Forum wanted in, myself being one.

 So discussion heated or not is dialog and absence of dialog leaves you in a dark place, sadly a place we in this country are headed.