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These sort of stories is were you have the scrub team that need to win to get the money to save their school verse the champion team that is overconfident, smug, and using absurd amounts of equipment to cover the areas they are lacking in skills.
Those stories end in one of two ways in America: The scrub teams wins the impossible win because the overconfident team was stupid.
Or, the scrub team loses putting up the good fight because the overconfident team was still serious, but because they scrub team put up a good fight, their wish was still granted and the now less overconfident team looks forward to seeing them next year.
The problem in Girls und Panzers is that the overconfident team with the aburdly overpowered gear is Black Forest Peak...the ones that lost last year to Pravda, who Ooarai has beaten (barely). Black Forest Peak comes off as half overconfident, and half serious (the contrast between Erika and Maho) and has the "heartless coach" type as presented by Shiho throwing the mix off so much that the two standard American endings fo this kind of story don't fit.
They are definately too ridged in their doctrine as they can't handle "special tactics" efficently.
It is possible that most of Black Forest Peak's good tankers graduated and they have a lot of freshmen tankers. It is also possible that they have gone the route of "overpower the enemy" since losing to Pravda and then changed tactics, but trained too hard for these formation tactics that they didn't cover how they use to do things. Or they've always been formation, overwhelming firepower tactics. But that doesn't explain way Miho's flag Tiger tank was being escorted by two Panzer IIIs in the Finals last year. Especially when this year Maho's flag Tiger is in the main formation and nearly in the front most of the time. Something changed. (We still don't know what Erika nor Maho was doing in the Finals against Pravda)
It is possible that the lose changed Black Forest's tactics and tanks used (as Miho's intel was at least partly wrong), or perhaps it was Miho training them last year and Erika training them this year (Vice Commanders both), thus adding to Erika's grind about crushing Miho's "heresy".
As for how this will end? I don't know. The signs point to Ooarai victory, but Maus + 15 late war German tanks says that is unlikely (Panzer III could be a factor, but unknown). Do we know what tank Miho's former crewmates are in?
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