"Combat!" takes a different tack with "A Child's Game", perhaps the series' most sympathetic look at the German enemy, when Vic's squad is committed to battle with teenage enemy soldiers.
With a plethora of gunfire giving the episode plenty of danger and tension, a more thoughtful message is developed as Vic faces the dilemma of shooting the youthful enemy soldiers who are occupying a farmhouse that the Americans need to take to set up an observation post there.
Guest star Peter Haskell is fine as a German-American soldier tasked to interpret between the two sides. As usual, the German dialogue spoken among the Germans is left unsubtitled, but the emotions and attitudes are well-expressed by an ensemble cast in a quite moving examination of the difficult decisions faced during battle, as well as the humanity of both sides, even when the enemy is Nazis (or in this case Nazi youth recruits). It's a rare case where the focus is not on Vic and his comrades but on the enemy instead.