This is a work in progress. I'll update it as I go along. This is just a friendly poke at Blartch, of course.
Pz. IV Anko SP: Blartch will let you in on the actual combat history of the real Pz. IV. I'm going to talk about what it did in Girls und Panzer. Spoiler alert.
It was initially found in Ausf. D form (with the short 7.5cm KwK 37 L/24), abandoned and in bad but restorable shape, by Miho and the rest of her Senshadou-bu (Tank Combat club).
After restoration and trials, it first saw action in a friendly spar against St. Gloriana, the British-themed team in Girls und Panzer. It slaughtered their Matildas with relative ease (probably not happening in real life, and even in Blitz you'll need to get lucky with HEAT, with that gun), but in the end was defeated by their leader, code-name "Darjeeling", in the Churchill Mk. VII.
Eventually upgraded to Ausf. F2, with the longer 7.5cm KwK 40 L/43 and additional frontal armor. This would prove crucial in their next big battle, against Pravda, the Soviet-themed team. The increased penetration capabilities of the longer gun made cutting down the various T-34s Pravda fielded easier; even the KV-2 Pravda sent out was defeated by a well-aimed shot through the flat weak spot under the gun mantlet, after the KV-2 missed one of its stupid derp shells and was left helpless, of course.
Its final form is the Ausf. H, with the Schurzen spaced armor side skirts and the 7.5cm KwK 40 L/48. This is the version we got in Blitz. The first action this final form got to see was against Kuro Mori Mine, the German-themed team, in the finals of the big Senshadou tournament. It came down to a 1v1 World of Tanks-style brawl between Miho and her Onee-chan, Maho, who was commanding the Kuro Mori Mine Tiger I (Pz. VI Ausf. E), which is in Blitz as well. Because every Blitz warrior wants to carry their team while outnumbered and outgunned, and then beat the best player on the enemy team in a 1v1 brawl, all while in a lower-tier tank.
In the movie (Der Film), the Pz. IV H participated in the battle against the University team, an elite team led by child prodigy Shimada Arisu in the post-war Centurion Mk. I. Due to certain circumstances, Maho was on Miho's team now, and it came down to a 2v1 between Maho + Miho and Arisu. Maho fires a blank into the back of Miho's tank, giving it more momentum as Miho charged Arisu in a suicidal shoot + ram. Both tanks were knocked out, but as Maho's Tiger was still operational, the "good guys" won.
Kuro Mori Mine: still salty I started this game too late to get it. EDIT: I can now set right what once went wrong and get a Kuro for myself.
Kuro Mori Mine, Japanese for Black Forest Peak, is the German-themed team in Girls und Panzer and the main antagonists of the TV series. Kuro Mori Mine use the Tiger I, probably an early 1943 model, as the flagship command tank. The 212 marks on the turret are a reference to the Tiger 212, one of the tanks that was commanded by the infamous Michael Wittmann. In the past, Kuro Mori Mine had won the National Senshadou tournament 9 years in a row, but lost to Pravda in the final the year before the events of the anime, blowing their chance at 10 in a row. Miho, in command of the flagship Tiger I at the time, saw that one of her tanks had fallen off a cliff into the sea. Miho suddenly jumped out of the Tiger and into the water to save the fallen tank's crew. The ensuing confusion opened up a gap for the flagship Tiger to be shot before Kuro Mori Mine's other tanks could meat-shield for it, giving victory to Pravda. For her actions, Miho was exiled from both the school and her family.
The Tiger 212 in real life:
Edited by Mayjaplaya, 05 June 2017 - 05:05 AM.