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So I'm planning to continue my WW2 Tiger Ace storygame which most of its plot and characters might be fictional, but based on real events. The last part of the story determines the ending.

The last part is the Battle of Berlin. Many boys as young as 14 or even younger are forced to fight for Germany in the last days of the Reich.

I wonder if the King Tiger (yup, they switched to the King Tiger later in the war) crews deserting from the battle and happen to encounter the Hitlerjugend, which is led by an SS officer and the SS officer forces the children and teens to shoot the Tiger crews for deserting and deemed as 'traitors' and the Tiger crews fight back.

Alternatively, Red Army soldiers combating the child soldiers.

Showing the killing of child soldiers with hail of bullets and grenades, massacring them... is it way too vulgar?

Well, there is infanticide and genocide in Eternal. What your describing is vulgar, but I do not think it would be an 8/8. Even The Order of the Midnight Sun had characters as young as your child soldiers having somewhat graphic sexual relations. From what I understand from the rating system, an 8/8 is only reserved for "adult" material or extreme (as in beyond Love SICK) amounts of violence or vulgarity.

So a Red Army soldier kicking a twelve year old repeatedly, ridiculing him, spraying half a drum of his submachine gun on him, and chugging a grenade on another kids.

And burning more child soldiers with flamethrower still don't count as 8/8.

Alright then. Thanks. Though I'll limit the child soldiers killing since I feel it would be too much to show the killing of the underaged more and more.

Doesn’t sound like an 8, plus it doesn’t sound like you’re just putting it in for the hell of it since the scenes are within the context with the overall story.

Just put an extra warning on the front page I guess.

I figured that 8/8 is generally believed to be pornography... So, no, I don't think so, unless this scene is going to be particularly special...

Thanks for the answers, guys. I'll be sure to make this edutainment (or everything else if I find that it's more of a historical fiction rather than education. It's more of showing the war and machinery instead of general history though) a good read.