David C

I hope BF will realize the importance and potential. I am not aware of the technical details of course, but I could imagine writing a script for automatic conversion of "old trees" to "new trees" is not too complicated. I am convinced that expanding the arena to the European fronts will prove to be beneficial for 1C and BF as well. In that case, taking advantage of the existing maps bank, sounds like a reasonable move, even if some tweaks and changes will be needed. Personally, I would like to repeat each of the original TOW campaigns, taking advantage of the new features. In that case I would be more than happy to buy the successor title, knowing that I actually got a whole new title + the promised add-on through the back door... If some extra funds are needed for that - I will gladly pay :-)

I think many of us "old faithfuls" will find TOW2 much more appealing, if we can import maps, objects and missions from the original TOW title. I recall this strategy was taken in many successful titles. Even if it was not initially planed, the import was enabled later to address user's requirements. A great example is the "Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum" which facilitated to import its ancestor "Apache vs Havoc" maps and missions. Even if the missions will not work "as is" but will require some fine tuning, in order to take advantage of the new engine's improvement, it will still greatly increase the new title's sense of re-playability and value, and will leverage fine efforts like the ongoing JSH mode.