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Feudal system In feudal system it is not simple thing to kill another feudal lords subject even legally. When that feudal lord is monarch and subject is not just member of nobility but office holder for that monarch, extralegal means act of treason even in feudal systems because monarch is the...

Love me some good finn wank. Just small point. Calling somebody in military just herra is unnatural. Correct way is herra luutnantti , herra kapteeni and so on. For more informal setting it is customary that lower ranker just uses senior officer's rank like "yes, general" or "no, general". Of...

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Good work. I just suggest when you write Finnish soldiers swearing you use the most common swearwords at the time. Paska or Paskat (shit, shits) were used but the classic swearwords then and still are (allthought not as much used) were saatana (devil) and perkele (demon, evil spirit, devil)...

I see you have read Tuntematon Sotilas (Unknown Soldier), best Finnish novel by popular vote. Pity that you have had to settle reading english translation that is generally though to be less than mediocre. You can't really appreciate true masterpiece equal to any great war novel written in...

It was perfectly normal for lieutenant to be company CO for long time without being promoted to captain, often never. Same thing for captain being battalion CO. In regimental level my understanding is that major being CO's rank longer than very temporary was rare. Then again lots of division...

Prikaatinkenraali (brigadier general) is even newer rank, adopted in 1994. Old system had three general ranks; kenraalimajuri, kenraaliluutnantti and kenraali (one lion, two lions and three lions). Reason for chance was international missions and need for equivalent ranks with foreign generals...

Point taken. Ralli was fast music, usually fast dance music, so it could come up as term kalmaralli or ruumisralli roughly meaning death dance or corpse dance.

Another word to use could be ralli . Ralli means in general use car racing on general roads, very popular in Finland. Ukkosralli would then mean roughly thunderrace. I would suggest terms kalmaralli or ruumisralli. Kalma is finnish word meaning death. Unlike general word kuolema (death), kalma...

Just a little nitpick. Finnish flag over Berlin looks really wrong. Arms of the cross should be at least two times wider.

Historically crossbow was main projectile weapon of choice in Finland in hunting and war until firearms replaced them. Crossbows were introduced in Finland maybe in 13th century, 14th century latest and were widely used until 19th century.

Finnish language Liking very much. Couple points about Finnish unit terms. First platoon is joukkue, not joukku. Second, more importantly, term for artillery battalion. Artillery battery is tykistöpatteri in Finnish and term for artillery battalion (multiple batteries) is tykistöpatteristo...

Finnish terms I have been thinking how naming armored vehicles would go in this atl. Naming infantry carrier as rynnäkkövaunu (charge wagon) is quite possible. However, more probable is that as sort of sub-type of tank name would be rynnäkköpanssarivaunu (charge armor wagon). In spoken language...

Finnish terms About your finnish terms. Finland has never used word säiliö meaning tank(direct translation) From beginning we took our direction from germans and their word panzer. So finnish word for tank is panssarivaunu (literally armorwagon). It's common when spoken just say panssari like...

Finnish language Loving the detail of the story, just commenting name of the system. Kotkansilmissä means literally in the eyes of the eagle. Correct spelling for eyes of the eagle is kotkansilmät. However system name would be in finnish Kotkansilmä (eye of the eagle, eagle eye). It would be...