Takuan_Soho said: Anyone else notice that the battle this scene was in some ways similar to the invasion of Europe in 1940, the attack through the forest, the enemy in retreat, almost destroyed, fate saving the main force. If this is the theme, next episode the French tank will be forced to surrender, and they will be back to the original 5 + Tiger in time a North Africa metaphor and then D-Day!.
The attack on the French during Hitler's invasion of France, where the Allies got their first real taste of Blitzkrieg [Though the first Blitzkrieg was against Poland]. By cutting through the Ardennes, a tank unfriendly terrain, Guderian's strategy was to surprise the Anglo-Franco allies, which heavily defended the Belgium flat, tank friendly, terrain. This is the only similarities I can find, where the vice-commander, Erica was it?, took her tanks and cut through the jungles, which surprise Miho who thought it may took longer for them to face the main force. But I recalled that Maho said something about Guderian before the start, the subs was it German.
There are many differences, between the attack on France and Miho's final battle. During the french invasion, the allies had better armor than the Germans. France has the Char B1 bis which the German feared and the British had the Queen of the desert, the Matilda. The best the German had during the invasion was the PzKpfw III, which had a better gun and mobility than their French and British counterparts, but lesser armor. The Matilda armor was only defeated when the Germans brought ther fearsome 88mm Flak AA guns down and using them as anti tank guns. In Miho's situation, almost all the tanks in Kuromorimine outperform all but one[Tiger P]of Ooarai tanks in armor, firepower and maybe even mobility, something that the allies enjoyed over the Germans in the early WW2 [Firepower being the only exception]
Also, during WWII, the allies has a numerical advantage over the Germans. Something that Miho dose't enjoy. The Allies lost the battle of France is because of Guderian's Blitzkrieg, a new fast and mobile warfare that takes coordinated attacks, the Allies were't expecting that. And as I said earlier, the only counter Blitzkrieg tactics I know of is through numerical and industrial superiority, which the Allied employed. Now Kuromorimine strategy, as far as ep 10 goes, also goes on the offensive like Blitzkrieg, even using the defensive favorable Jagdpanzers as an offensive weapon. Using this tactic i am struggling to find a way Miho will win. she is at a disadvantage in all fronts.
If you say that it follows the same theme as WW2 European theater, than it will go something like this: most of Ooarai tanks will be knocked out later and an overconfident Kuromorimine will begin to make mistakes or mechanical difficulties [The JagdTiger and KonigsTiger had huge reliability problem and cross-country is poor], causing lost to many tank until both team are neck and neck. The most essential tanks in Ooarai arsenal will be the Germans tank, Hetzer, Stug III, Tiger P and PzKpfw IV G, they are the ones capable of creating some form of damage to what seems to be an overpowered Kuromorimine team [Let's face it, realistically the M3 Lee and the B1 can't do much to a late-war German monster, the Type 89 can't even penetrate the rear armor of a Matilda III, German armor are tougher than that]
Well, since Kuromorimine have such a great arsenal, I am not surprise if I see a Maus there [It will be overboard if there is a P.1000 Ratte]
kemkemmers said: I was expecting Villers-Bocage or Kursk as the final competition site, but wow... JGSDF East Fuji Maneuver Area!
The annual Fuji Combined Firepower Exercise is surely the holy festival for AFV otaku.
It is also the homebase of JGSDF Fuji Tank School Unit. No wonder Captain Chouno Ami serves as the judge.
No wonder it looks familiar, This is the setting from where I delight myself with Type-10 MBT [Chouno Ami'stank] and FH 70 howitzer in action. In YouTube of course |