You know or if they sticking to the US, they could at least go to their segregated units, like the all Japanese 442nd Infantry Regimnet, the most decorated unit of the US in WWII. Also one with the highest casualty rate, with a story full of last man standing heroics.

I would argue with you in that they ignored economy. They actually did a super interesting and very satisfying job by transforming the economy to territory based, that in one hand simulated actual war as in: the more territory you hold, the more resources you get. They also made a very significant and usually ignored…

And there you are wrong on at least one assumption. Have no experience with the Wii myself, but I tried make the dualshock ps3 controller to work on win7 for a while. It has no official support whatsoever from sony or microsoft. The only available path is that with some registry hackery you can trick windows into…

On the note of Band of Brothers, I would add "Unsere Mutter Unsere Vater" - (Our fathers and mothers) A sadly obscure, but very high quality german mini series. A theme of Germany chewing through it's youth during the war.

I am sad no russian movie made the list, but if I had to pick one, I would recommend this. Completely strips out the fake glory and pathos from war movies. Come and See is an unflinching gaze into the very bottom of human existence brought about a war.