"Boba Fett and Litchy, you can save your righteousness, you are not convincing me. If you were really so averse to the violence of war you would not be playing this game, or even reading this thread.
When the first "keeper of the morals" made his post all the "me too's" chime in with their "Yeah, you're right, war sucks, yuk" Of course war sucks, but every single person that plays this game has an interest in warfare in some level, anyone who denies that is nothing but a hypocrite."
Finnish people fought against Russia. They did it well and I am supposed to be proud of my origin. You would probably call them good soldiers..but for what? Did they have a chance to choose otherwise? They were being shot or put in jail if they refused to fight. Russian force was overpowering and the fight seemed desperate but standing against that force can be seen from several point of views. Were they good soldiers because they were stupid enough to die for nothing (because the fight seemed desperate)? Were they good soldiers because they did what they were forced to do? Were they good soldiers because they believed in something that they were raised to believe in and fought for it?
You seem to apreciate troops like SS and such. Well yeah, they sure were good soldiers because they were fanatic and stupid enough to be ready to lose their life for the probably most stupid cause that one can think of.
But hey, it's nothing wrong with the thing that people dicuss about the effectiveness of killing. It's just so cool. I hope that my grandfather killed as many Russians as possible so that I could tell to my friends what a killing spree he was. My grandfather wasn't just a man that believed everything he was told..he was a fightning unit without a personality like the rest of them. Now we all can start talking about our relatives and how many people they have killed. Who has the relative who has killed the most people? That member must be so respected after he tells us all about the fightning and killing achievements of his relatives, eh?