[Wulfmann]

I want I want I want.

Being realistic to what you might get would make a Dutch sub or an Italian sub unlikely.

Put yourself in the Dev shoes and ask what would have wide appeal not what one guy might like. They must decide what will work well and have broad appeal to be profitable.
Darn if only we made the O21, this thing would have sold much better!
Not likely mate!

While stereo typing Italian and French as cowards does not represent the majority of good men in those navies it is how history recalls them fair or not and that makes them of little interest to 99.99% of potential feed my children, customers.
As Good as the Royal Navy was (is!) submarines in the Atlantic are called U-baots and are for Germans, perception is what people buy not your (or my) form of reality. Those British guys are so polite, are you sure they are not gay?

People prefer playing Germans or Americans more than any other nationality!
Why? (Can’t wait to hear all the nationalistic whining about this!)
The Germans are the ultimate bad guy, the Darth Vader syndrome. The guys you love to hate and hate to love. (and the Kriegsmarine was considered an honorable enemy to alleviate guilt a bit!)
As for good guys, the yanks are smart mouthed misfits that are not wearing white hats but coming to kick your butt, the Hans Solo syndrome.

So, when you sit down and say, how can we do this and pay the bills you do the Germans in the Atlantic and the Americans in the Pacific. That is where the majority of interest will be.

So tell me I am completely wrong and it is a Dutch campaign in the Pacific that would be a bigger draw or an Italian one in the Atlantic. What next, the Greeks should be an add on for the Med? What no sub named the Papamicolis? How can SH4 succeed?

Sorry, but I just love these narrow I wants that have no chance of doing anything but reducing profitability and reducing future simulations if ever considered!

I do hope they update SH3 as part of SH4, which would be a big draw giving cause for those not interested in the Pacific to buy it anyway.
I agree the fact the Atlantic starts easy and gets progressively harder makes for a perfect game scenario.
Perhaps the US campaign should be 1942-43 before the slaughter begins in 44 but it will be a challenge to buck history and make it harder as one plays.
I do hope they do a Japanese campaign using the smaller boats as a choice. Those big ones you all are longing for handles poorly, dove very slowly and were weak structurally compared to what you are use to in the Atlantic. You will think a Type IX is a sports car when you get into an I–boat. You will have little chance against mediocre AS craft because the boats just don’t turn well.

There is the mod makers to improve things (again) once SH4 is released and the fact they are doing one is a super Christmas gift, IMO

Wulfmann