I saw very interesting show about allies taking Sicily Island and then Italy from Hitler's lied to/mesmorised/young troops. There were interviews with survivors of these battles from both sides, in there old age ofcouse. What amazed me and I think worth mentioning, besides their remorse, particularly the Germans who claimed unaware of Hitlers devious actions/orders/unknown mental irrationality ... was that thay were so better trained then our "green" troops landing over there ... the german survivors of Italy defense after Italy joined us, recalled the orders and tactics ... they were VERY SMART and it amazes me our own commanders didn't realize such ... the germans knew from subs and where-ever about the large troop-ship movement to miditerrean/italy ... an allie 1st move to distract them from normandy west coast of france ... german subs in midd sank lots but were many allie ships headign to sicily and italy ... so they left little defense in sicily but were ordered by hitler to slow enemy advance i nitaly as much as possible ... what they did was against nukbers of 4 to 5 times as many outnumbered ... the wa ythey did it was to order italians out of towns so they could set demolitions to blow up buildings and bridges ... when the allies finnaly got to towns, there was only 1 or 2 routes to get vehicles/troops thru ... germans were waiting with mulptiple snipers orderd to only shoot comanders with stripes and badges ... thus slowing organization and allie advancement ... they had such a strong effect, allies were scrambling to keep reinforcements coming ... thus they knew, according to german survivor of that, many "green" troops would come ... the CANADIAN TROOPERS were often given front line attack orders while "Montgomery's" Brit forces were in reserve, as well as U.S troops ... what shocked me was canadian survivor testimony that when problems and major life loss reported to Montgomery and U.S commanders, response was ... it's your assignment-your problem-keep sending them in as fast as possible ... this program makes clear such orders/decisions were bad decisions at cost of many lives that could have survived wit hless stubborn thinking of commanders ... anyway ... point here relating to games is the smart deceptive way the surving germans admitted orders they carried out to blow up buildings, forcing allies thru traps of snioers and machine guns and booby traps as well as letting allies think 2-3 floor building safe to enter for better vantage shooting points, once 10 -30 allies in there, a well hidden bomb and wires, blew the buildings and all in or near to sky ...this way they got like 10-1 kill ratio against 10-1 odds being very outnumbered ...i feel sorry ofcourse for these green allie troops with no experienced comrade to warn them ...one allie interviewd said he say fresh green candian troop of like 20 coming up 1 street ... he was hidden and yelled and even ran towrds then waqrning back off takwe cover ... it was to late ... 1 big hidden demolityion charge took them all out ... he got wounded and is why he's here today ...sad, yes , sorry, point is not just remember wrongness of battle and taking of life, but these mistakes could make for great game ...in other words ... imagine "fa"-"thanatos" with demolition charges that could bring down a building with all in it :o anyway, cheers y'all, enjoy challenge of no harm battle here and maybe future war will be this

random explosions in fa = more screenshake = bad, nice thought though

despite the bad things they did, they were so advance din thechnology and tactics... the reason a country so small could do so much damage is training. nearly anything can be achieved through it

300 spartans vs thousands upon thousands of persians at thermopolae...was on the history channel video game show thing tonight :-P

many citizens were unaware of hitlers big plan and beliefs back then.My father lived in Germany at the WWII time and left because of Hitler. Many were taken in by his charisma. He didn't believe in it and good thing he left when he did. All German families lost their wealth to the war. My family back in the day had lotsa money and Hitler got it all. it wasn't all rosey for the Germans. MANY were against the war and what Hitler stood for but couldn't say anything outta fear. They did have good training though in the army and it took them far, but like many things, if you push the envelope sooner or later you get burned. Just some thoughts.