I like all of the new stuff, and will certainly end up buying all of the ski and snow shoe troops, but my favorite new release is the Christmas Truce set, hands down. What a poignient scene. What a pointless war. In all the reading I have ever done, I could never see a good reason for WWI. It seems a war fought purely for colonialism (i.e. who is going to control and expand their colonial interests, Britain, France, Germany, the United States or Japan) and in a misguided sense of "lets have a war! We can beat these guys, and we haven't had a major war in Europe in years!" The Germans wanted to infringe on French and British interests, the Brits wanted to prove their army could fight its first major european war since the Crimea, and the French wanted revenge for losing the Franco-Prussian war. These don't seem like good enough reasons to bury a generation in the blood tinged mud of Flanders.
