They've been fighting over the same map [1940 france] since the game came out. With no evidence of ever moving to North Africa [which they said they were working on about 5 years ago and then said it was a no go]. No sign of ever bringing in more variety of planes or vehicles [just variants of the ones they have had for a while].
Players were hollering for them to bring in the US and the Italians and it all fell on deaf ears.
I wouldn't like N.Africa at all, it's among the top of my least preferred theatres. The area from France to Germany, the western european theatre, on the other hand is my favorite theatre. The eastern front is the second and Italy is the third.
Italian units probably wouldn't do much good, unless they'd be put against infantry and light armoured vehicles. Any mediocre tank, even a stuart, could put up a fight against almost any of the italian tanks. It'd be waste of time, better put into
new units for the existing countries.
The french already are the framericans
It would be good if the real americans could replace the french by tier x, because the french are pretty much a dead end by '41. Get over the improvised "free french" hoopla.