I agree that fighters are overspecialized, but making them completely unspecialized is not the solution.
Having all the tricks of the trade available to you (though you can only change them practically once a day) is not the answer, even wizards are limited by the amount of spells they know (and a good DM should limit the amount of spells a wizard could get, you shouldn't have ALL the spells in all the books at your repertuare).
Save-vs-DM's variant does make the fighters more balanced, but it removes the unique flavor you could get.
Personnaly, and I think I've said this before, I prefer to have some kind of fighting style (where tome of battle made right, though for me it more or less stops there), each style should allow you diffrent attack options based on the style but unique enough to not be like all the other styles.
RPG is based on the rock-scissors-paper system, all your tricks are bound not to work on someone (though wizards obviously break this with the many no-save, no-SR spells out there).
Not all fighter tactics work on size- spring attack is one such option, power attack is another.
However non-core classes have much more to offer, I almost never take fighter above 1st or 2nd level if I can help it.
Having all the tricks of the trade available to you (though you can only change them practically once a day) is not the answer, even wizards are limited by the amount of spells they know (and a good DM should limit the amount of spells a wizard could get, you shouldn't have ALL the spells in all the books at your repertuare).
Save-vs-DM's variant does make the fighters more balanced, but it removes the unique flavor you could get.
Personnaly, and I think I've said this before, I prefer to have some kind of fighting style (where tome of battle made right, though for me it more or less stops there), each style should allow you diffrent attack options based on the style but unique enough to not be like all the other styles.
RPG is based on the rock-scissors-paper system, all your tricks are bound not to work on someone (though wizards obviously break this with the many no-save, no-SR spells out there).
Not all fighter tactics work on size- spring attack is one such option, power attack is another.
However non-core classes have much more to offer, I almost never take fighter above 1st or 2nd level if I can help it.