It's very interesting to hear everyone's comments.
Of course it's only a game ( I must confess I do like to occasionally machine gun the lifeboats for a bit of fun). But having played it for however many hundreds of hours, I can't help but examine the motivation of the various people involved, and compare them to my own moral compass. Does the end result justify any means to achieve it? I'm always impressed by the war in North Africa, very few civilans killed, prisoners treated well by both sides etc.
But total war was just that I suppose, a clash of idealism that left no room for sentimentality. To bring Britain to her knees required the strangulation of her supplies from abroad, and that involved sinking merchants.
Sod it, line up that merchent fritz, she'd going to the bottom...
