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Skipper, why USSR took Karelia? Why they took islands of Gulf of Finland and parts of Lapland? Yea, theres much emotion surrounding this conflict b/c quite many Finns think that Karelia belongs to Finland not to Russia/USSR. My grandparents are from Karelia and for real they would like to see this major part of Finnish countryside again under the Finnish flag. Quite many, or allmost all think that USSR attacked without good reason. We sure were cought our pants down. Karelia is a symbol of unfairness to Finns. Well. Theres been peace for 57 years and if Karelia is price of it, so be it. Actually former president of Finland, U.Kekkonen had some secret negotiations with USSR in 60's and 70's to change Finnish Lapland to Karelia. Quite wild isn't it?

US Civil War is better for only americans. As a Finn Im not so interested about that Civil War. Maybe it would be a great game, but WW2 is known by everyone, around the world and US CW isn't so common to all.

Ski troops were essential to finnish army. They made possible to move fast from A to B and make some quick, silent and very deadly strikes against the Russian troops. A Finnish soldier equipped with Suomi SMG, skiis and white "snow-univorm" is a legend, known as "a white death". What my grandpa' told, Russians were afraid to death 'cos of these sudden strikes when they tried to get some sleep. This would be a fine reason to include ski troops. Maybe a burst to moving in wintertime. That would be nice and very realistic too.

Yep. Thats true about Soviets suffering poor leadership, but just take a look the numbers how much more soviets got everything. more than 1000 howitzers and infantry guns more than Finns, with 2000 armours against 13 and lousy AT-guns (about 300 pcs) and more than 2000 fighters and bombers against various models of airplanes and only quantity of 121. I can say it was a miracle that Soviets didn't invade the whole Finland. (Only Carelia, islands of the Finland Bay and small parts of Lapland) One main reason why Finns beated Soviets in a way was that Soviets suffered a lot of the Finlands terrain. Think about guy who hasn't seen a forest in his whole life and suddenly his in so thick forest that he allmost can't move. And how do you explain the war in 1941-44? USSR didn't invade Finland. About the AT guns in winter war. Finns had to put some tree to the tanks tracks to make them stop. Then they knocked the tanks door and throw some frags in. Quite HC wasn't it?

I just love the axis 88. I allways purchase Tigers and King Tigers, just b/c they have it. Against infantry I usually have 20mm quad flak or 75mm infantry gun. Why? -Just 'cos they are quite cheap and have a great effect to slow down or stop the assault. A well spotted fire of 170mm guns is quite nice too. Tough they are bit too expensive to purchase just to kill some infantry.

Just curious. Will finnish troops get some extra points against Soviet army? As you might know, in winter war 1939-1940 Finns really kicked ass. Result was somethin' like: Finland: 21 396 KIA, 1434 MIA, 837 POW and 43 557 wounded. USSR: 84 994 KIA+POW, 186 584 wounded, 51 892 sick and 9 614 frozen to death. All this with smaller army 340 000 vs. 960 000. And maybe with worstest equipment in WW2. Or will this whole game be from year 1941-1945?