Pomorie was back in her dorm as she opened the laptop to find out what was happening. Not much activity was happening at the very moment. She wanted to find out the aftermath of today's match with the Partisans and what impact it had overall. Maho's screen came online as she was in the nurse's office.
"Oh Pomorie, is there something you wish to speak to me about?" Maho asked as she wanted to figure out why Pomorie was there.
"Yes, we found out about the thieves and Malko was pretty beaten up as she and another girl went after them to try to stop them." Pomorie told Maho about what happened.
"So was Olivia for that matter. I rushed her over to the nurse's office when I found out that she had taken a glass bottle to the face. The nurse and a couple of doctors rushed her in to get treated and I'm just waiting for the results from the doctors at this point." Maho gave her reply as she was worried for her friend as she tanked a lot of hits from Mika during that fight. A stretcher was rolled out as one of the doctors had some news for Maho.
"I see you were chatting with a friend and we have some good news for you." The doctor began. "The glass injury wasn't that life threatening despite a couple of shards being on the cheek close to the eye. We were able to remove them without having the girl flinch that much. I'm telling you she's a fighter for what I can recall." Maho looked at him curiously.
"How long until Olivia's out of the office and back in the tank?" Maho asked as she wanted to know when her friend will be back on the field in supporting the team.
"She will be discharged tomorrow morning but no activity for a couple of days. It'll give her face sometime to heal." He replied as Maho sighed with relief. Olivia was going to be fine. The doctor walked out as Maho turned back to Pomorie as she continued to talk.
"Okay I just got news from the doctor regarding Olivia's condition and she's going to be okay. I'll have to cancel matches for a couple of days so she can recover." Maho decided to share the news with Pomorie over her friend's condition. "You want to see her?" Maho asked Pomorie.
"Sure." Pomorie responded. Maho decided to move the camera from her face to where Olivia was laying on the stretcher. Her face had a couple of cotton balls with a piece of bandaging over and two band-aids to hold it all down.
"Isn't she adorable when she sleeps?" Maho asked as she observed her friend who had her head to the pillow and she was laying on her side in order for her face to heal.
"I mean I guess but I'm glad she's okay. Malko has been treated for her injuries yet she didn't take that big of a beating as your friend did." Pomorie wasn't too sure about how to say this. Maho looked at her as she began speaking.
"How is Malko holding up?" Maho needed to ask that as she was with Olivia at the time when they fought Mika and her friends.
"She was beaten up but she's doing fine. She's just glad to have her Megachips back." Pomorie told her about her friend's condition. Maho nodded.
"I'll see you in a couple of days for when the next match is underway, take care." Maho responded before logging offline. Pomorie nodded as she did much the same thing. Now the resources could be used for the preparation of the next match.
Those two days went back as if they were like nothing. The warming of the spring air was on its way and it was still icy in some areas but the sun was out long enough to begin melting the ice and snow. Yogurt Academy was once again on the front as they were preparing for another match with Pravda.
"Okay the last defeat has made Kuromorimine only reactionary as that match consumed up a lot of oil, oil that Kuromorimine doesn't have." Noemi laid out what was happening. Pomorie, Solti and Stefanik nodded as Solti began to speak from her Tiger 1.
"Are you guys still supplying them with oil?" Solti asked Noemi if this was true.
"Yes we are." Noemi responded. Stefanik had another question.
"What about the Synthetic refinery they promised to upgrade, what happened to that?" Stefanik asked as she wanted to find out the news about that refinery that Kuromorimine had if it was going to make them more oil.
"They did upgrade it as it is producing about three hundred percent more oil than the months previously as the synthetic oil is helping their tanks but it isn't enough for them to go on the offensive." Noemi gave her answer to Stefanik. Stefanik nodded as the radio cracked with Pomorie's voice.
"What happened to that oil they mentioned that they were getting from America? What happened to that?" Pomorie asked as she wanted to find out what happened to that. Maho began speaking as she was busy preparing their defenses.
"It was only a one time deal. We only used it as a stop gap until we could solve the oil situation. We still have a good amount of that oil left but we wanted to use it much less frequently." Maho replied as she wanted to get this addressed. Everyone nodded as they knew exactly what was happening.
"So what's the big plan?" El asked if they were going to be deployed yet again in the same positions that doomed them last time.
"Actually from the whole Kursk debacle, we learned that if we will conduct a successful defense, we should split into two groups. Group Left, and Group Right. Group Left will contain the flag tank and I myself will be leading it. Emi is going to lead Group Right with Erika in it as I feel like I kind of don't want to deal with her too much so I'm leaving Emi in charge." Maho explained their planning on what was going to happen and who will be deployed.
"So what schools will go where?" Pomorie asked as she was curious about the whole deployment. Maho began to speak to Pomorie.
"Group Left will be my half of the school along with Magyar Academy, Blue Division and Yogurt Academy. Group Right will be Emi's half along with Gregor, Count and the Croatians. I expect you all to be on your best behavior if we're going to avoid incidents like this happening again." Maho gave one last warning as disciplinary action to those that misbehaved during the match will be issued.
"Okay we got it." Pomorie responded as Olivia's tank rolled up. Pomorie knew that wasn't a Tiger tank she was so used to using. "Why isn't Olivia in her Tiger?" Pomorie asked. Maho nodded as she began to speak.
"Her tiger has a few wheels on the right side of her tank that were faulty and they are being replaced, however the repairs wouldn't come in time for this match so we decided to get her another tank to use in the meantime. We actually have ten of these tanks all together." Maho explained to Pomorie what happened to her friend's tank and why it was being withdrawn from service for the time being.
"Oh so what type of tank did you decide to use for this match?" Pomorie asked as she looked at the new tanks. There were two types that rolled along to Maho's defensive line.
"The type that my apprentice is in is a Nashorn tank destroyer. I brought ten of these tanks along to help supplement the losses we've taken the match previously as many of the tanks were still undergoing major repairs. The second type is an SPG the Brummbar. They were used in the match previous to this one along with the Ferdinands but they were all knocked out by Nina. We brought fifteen Brummbars with us." Maho described what the tanks were so Pomorie had a better idea visually what Kuromorimine was going to be using. Maho knew she was being somewhat experimental with her plans as she began to speak. "Also for this match, I'm making Olivia's Nashorn the flag tank, after the injury she's taken I've decided to put her in a tank destroyer to support us from afar."
"Sounds like a good idea to make sure she isn't in the thick of the match and she could be protected while providing a role for us?" Pomorie asked as she wanted to know if this was correct.
"Exactly." Maho gave her reply. She grabbed her hand held radio as she wanted to make contact with Olivia who's Nashorn was getting entrenched close to the line of fire. "Okay Olivia I want you to play your role safely. Your tank has thirty millimeters of armor at the front meaning you can get penetrated by any tank you come across, even Pug team if they wanted to test it. Stay put and shoot from afar. I'll give you orders when you could retreat to a new position and dig in." Olivia was listening as her face was still sore and had the bandages over her cuts.
"Got it." Olivia gave her word as her Nashorn was one of many that were converted to have a roof over their heads but these roofs were flimsily thrown together and had as much armor thickness as ten millimeters. One shot from a T-34 would be enough to punch into the steel roof and leave a serious dent.
Katyusha on the other hand was preparing for her own offensives. After the success of the last match, she seemed more confident in driving into areas like hills that Kuormorimine will not try to take and rain fire down on them from the said hills to knock out the tanks. Much like Kuromorimine, Pravda was split into two groups, left and right. Group Right was commanded by Nonna, Klara and Alina while Group Left had Katyusha, Nina and Brook.
"Our plan is to advance on three hills as they overlook a narrow road that Kuromorimine will try traveling down to take us on. Their tanks are too sluggish to climb hills effectively. We take the high ground and we bombard them from above." Katyusha laid out her plans from her T-34/76. Nina was in command of her SU-152 and Brook from another T-34/76.
"I tried taking Pomorie out in this field before and was taken out, I'll not suffer another defeat by my foes." Brook said to Katyusha as she knew this battle needed to be the one to take her revenge. Katyusha nodded as she smiled.
"That's the spirit, let's move out then." Katyusha gave the order as her tanks began rolling. Katyusha's tanks began climbing up a hill as the others did the same. Nina with her much more powerful tank was much farther from the field. Brook was the closest to the road as she wanted to be the first to draw blood. She was excited for revenge.
"Okay we're ready on the hill, tell us when." Brook gave her the status of her group. Katyusha nodded as she was ready to begin raining fire down onto their position.
"Okay now wait for my signal." Katyusha replied. She opened the hatch to her tank as she began to look out for any signs of activity.
Maho was leading a patrol as it was her, Pomorie, El and Kadosa. They were investigating a route to forge a breakthrough if they were to find a flat road through the hills.
"I heard Erika is under heavy fire as Nonna decided to press the attack with her KV-1." Maho began. The others began to listen as they were curious about this event. "She said it would be our job to find a way to go around the hills and take out Nonna from the back."
"I guess Nonna decided to begin the attack first and She's giving Erika a run for her money." El responded as she kept a lookout.
"I guess Erika must find taking out Pravda tanks electrifying." Kadosa decided to try to make the students laugh. No one found the joke to be funny.
"Kadosa and her electric jokes. I think she might be working in a power station one day." El gave her response as she couldn't help but laugh at her own jokes. Pomorie was listening but she wasn't saying anything as she was keeping an eye out. Katyusha was watching the patrol from above, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
"They're coming into range as there is only one road for them to traverse through the hills." Katyusha gave her status. Nina was on a ridge looking down at the road directly. She was poised to draw blood in this section.
"Okay I'm ready." Nina responded as she finished her deployment. Katyusha nodded as she continued to keep an eye out.
"Okay fire!" Katyusha gave the order as her hilltop fired down shells at the position. Nina's group responded next as shells rained down from her position onto the road. Brook was the last to fire but her group was the closest to the patrol. The tanks were trapped from three sides as fire rained down onto them. Maho knew this decision was difficult but she needed to it.
"Pull back to our lines, this route we cannot hold." Maho gave the order to begin the retreat. Some of the lighter tanks turned and began to drive away as fast as possible. Maho fired back to try knocking out some of the tanks that were in the area to no success. Kadosa spoke on the radio as she gave Maho the message.
"Fall back without me, I'll try blowing their generators with my tank." Kadosa gave the order from her Turan 1. Maho knew that she was right as the tank continued to reverse rapidly. Brook nodded as she gave the order.
"Fire!" She shouted to her gunner. The gunner fired as the shot slammed into the side of the Turan 1 as more hits ensued from the neighboring hill tops. After taking thirteen shots, a white flag popped out from the Turan 1 as Katyusha gave the order.
"We must advance if we are to take out their tank in a head on rush." Katyusha gave the order to the tanks to chase them down. Her tanks went first as they were going to lead the group. Brook's tanks followed next and Nina left her position simultaneously to keep up with the group. The three tanks rushed back to their front lines as Solti was keeping a lookout.
"Maho you're back so early, what has brought you all the way back here?" Solti asked as she wanted to know why Maho returned an hour ahead of her intended return time.
"We got ambushed by Pravda on the hills and we suspect that they will come along with a counter attack almost immediately. Put all the tanks in the area on high alert." Maho told Solti that all the tanks needed to be alerted to the threat.
"All tanks in Group Left, Pravda's tanks are coming and get yourselves ready for the defense." Solti raised the alarm to the group to prepare for the defense. Within minutes, Pravda showed up as their tanks were rushing in full force against the group. Kuromorimine still had the range advantage with their newer tanks and tank destroyers. The tanks began firing at a range of two thousand meters away as Olivia wanted to take out as much of the charging enemy she could.
Shells from the long ranged guns began raining down onto Pravda's charging tanks. A Su-76M was knocked out with a long ranged shot by Olivia's Nashorn as she continued to go look around for more targets to hunt. The Pravda tanks continued to fire as the Brummbars began lobbying their SPG shots at the Pravda tanks, the SU-152 and SU-122's began doing much the same thing as they wanted to get a few knockouts. Earth became suspended as the SPG's were in a never ending duel with one another as the T-34's continued to get close. The other tanks began opening fire as two more T-34's went down. Massive shells rained all over the place as this position was no longer tenable. Maho thought about the Nashorn and its thin armor. It can get taken out with just one shot.
"Everyone! Fall back!" Maho gave the order for the tanks to start pulling back. Olivia fired off another shot, knocking out a T-34 when she got the message. Her Nashorn was the first to pull out as the Yogurt tanks or what remained of them as the SPG shells continued to rain down onto their position. Maho's tank turned and began withdrawing as she fired to cover their retreat. Blue Division pulled back as Solti agreed that the Magyar tanks would stay behind for them to retreat. Katyusha knew they were falling back as Olivia was retreating backwards and firing off a few shots from long distance to keep Katyusha at bay. The minute ticked by as the remaining Magyar tanks were knocked out. Solti looked at her team as Szell began speaking.
"Looks like someone was completely incompetent and decided to get her entire team wiped out like that." Szell groaned as she rested her head on her tank.
"Well did you want to lose the flag Nashorn?" Solti asked Szell if that was the case if they retreated. Kokai popped her head from her Turan 2 as she looked at Pravda.
"Well at least we can say we tried to hold." Kokai responded as many as twenty-five of their tanks had been knocked out but at the same time, Pravda lost a similar number thanks to the flag tank. Katyusha looked over her partially wrecked team as both sides took heavy losses.
"I say we rest here and figure out the next plan we should do to get ourselves moving forward, I might as well call the KV-2 in here." Katyusha told them that now was a good time to begin planning. "Otherwise, lunch time." Katyusha called out for her team to take a break. Pravda's lunch was modest at best as they didn't have good cooks like Anzio or Blue Division. Brook meanwhile decided to take her opportunity for her role in sentry duty. In case Kuromorimine decided to return.
Maho and the remaining tanks in her group pulled back across the field as they found a nice area to rest and prepare a new defensive line. Pomorie, Olivia and many others got out their pickaxes and shovels and began digging defensive positions to begin setting up. Maho began tallying losses.
"Magyar Academy is all but gone. Every single tank wiped out. Yogurt lost two tanks, Blue Division lost two, and we lost about one Nashorns and five Brummbars so we've taken a serious hit back there. All that mattered is that Olivia's still in play as I got a report during the retreat that she managed to knock out about five Pravda tanks." Maho began assessing the situation as Olivia and her crew worked frantically trying to set up a new line of defense. She decided to speak to Emi. "Emi come in." Maho began.
"Maho you're still here okay we just got our butts kicked by Pravda and we've lost the Croats as they covered out retreat along with all of our Brummbars. Our Nashorns are thankfully still intact as we lost no Nashorns so far." Emi told Maho about the situation that is happening right now. Maho nodded as she had a question for her.
"Did you fall back to a new defensive perimeter?" Maho asked if Emi managed to escape.
"Yes but the area we've fallen back to had some forest to the right as we know that this will pose a bit of a problem if Nonna and Klara decided to take this chance to counter attack." Emi described the situation around her.
"So Pravda's offensives went into Stalemates?" Maho asked if this was true. Emi wasn't too sure about this as she didn't have a clear answer.
"Maybe but just stay alert." Emi decided to leave Maho hanging as Maho heard static around in her microphone.
"Hello?" Maho asked. Silence. She decided to look to her group as they were still building their defensive positions. Maho then looked around as she smiled for a bit, this area was perfect, there were no hills, no ridges, no forest, just one straight open plain which meant that long range shots could be easily pulled off. Unaware of the digging student's two SU-76M's were spying on them as they began recording the position and what tanks they had left. They were hiding in some bushes as they continued recording the information. They then began radioing Katyusha back the information.
Katyusha meanwhile was busy enjoying her lunch as the radio began to buzz with a voice. It was coming from the scout tanks she sent out ahead.
"Come in." Katyusha spoke as she wanted to see what information they had regarding their position. "Uh huh." Katyusha continued to listen. "Just digging in? Okay." Katyusha decided now was a good time to press the attack as Maho was trying to dig herself in and prepare to defend her position staunchly. She knew it was now or never. "Students of my group, we got word that Kuromorimine is digging into a second line of defense. Lunch time will end in five minutes as I want to get a move on to take out that flag tank, it's just a paper tiger so finish up and get prepared to move." Katyusha told them. The students knew they needed to get back in their tanks and be prepared to move on Katyusha's word. Katyusha's headset buzzed as Nonna was trying to get into contact with her.
"Katyusha come in." Nonna began.
"This is Katyusha Nonna, is there something you wish to talk to me about?" Katyusha asked if there was something she wished to be notified about.
"Yes there is, we're preparing our next offensive to try getting similar results to the first offensive we pulled off against Emi and we had major success but I noticed the lack of Tankettes the other schools are using, what happened to them?" Nonna asked as she was preparing to strike Emi again as she wanted to figure out why. Katyusha decided to give her a guess.
"Either they took that much of a beating during the last match that they couldn't be repaired in time or they're moving away from tanks to those with much more capable cannons. If that's the case, the Tankettes will be moved to training as the other schools don't have much use for them." Katyusha gave her answers as Nonna began thinking.
"Either one could be correct but I could be wrong. We're getting ready to attack so be prepared to do the same Katyusha." Nonna replied as Katyusha hung up the radio. "Okay I got the news that Nonna is pressing the second offensive, let's be prepared to move." Katyusha called out for the team to begin moving. Katyusha's T-34 began rolling forward as the other tanks did much the same thing. The second phase of the plan was beginning.
Olivia was keeping an eye out as many of the students kept digging into their defensive positions but it simply wasn't going to be enough. Olivia looked up as she heard the rumbling of nearby tanks. Looks like Pravda was coming for more.
"Pravda tanks dead ahead!" Olivia shouted as she decided to raise the alarm. Many student s began rushing for their tanks but in their haste, they dropped all of their entrenching equipment to man the tanks and see if they could get the opening shots to keep Pravda at bay but with the human eye not being as advanced as the lens of a tank's scope, Pravda was in main firing range, an excellent distance to begin raining fire down.
"Here they come!" Pomorie spoke out to her crew as Pravda knocked out a couple of tanks from the start. Pomorie just saw the R35 get knocked out as she was worried she was next.
"Fire!" Maho gave the order for all tanks to open their cannons. Many of the lighter tanks had hit their marks but it wasn't enough to penetrate the armor of Pravda's tanks. Those tanks that Kuromorimine had left were going to do all the heavy lifting as they were strong enough to take out Pravda's tanks. Olivia's Nashorn had struck a SU-122 knocking it out as Pravda began opening fire yet again. The shells rained everywhere as a Brummbar SPG was taken out of action. The losses were beginning to mount as Maho ordered the tanks to fire again. Even though the concentrated fire was enough to take out a couple T-34's, a SU-76M and a SU-122, Pravda just kept rolling forward. Maho looked as she was wondering what to do next, pull back or hold her position.
"What do we do Maho, we can't hold this position and we're losing many tanks." El asked as her Panzer 2 was the sole survivor of Blue Division. Maho looked on as she was losing tanks and she couldn't take any more losses or they were going to lose.
"Fall back." Maho gave the order as the survivors turned their tanks and began to make a run for it while Olivia tossed smoke to cover their retreat. During the chaos they had to abandon their entrenching equipment. Maho grabbed the radio as she wanted to figure out what to do next. "Emi this is Maho, second line we barely dug in and we got decimated, I only have ten tanks left including the flag tank with me."
"Yeah you seem to be lucky. Me and Erika are the only ones of our group left. Pravda attacked us from two sides and completely demolished us. I'm telling you the school's allies that you have, their tanks aren't strong enough to handle a medium tank from Pravda." Emi told Maho as Maho knew that this situation continued to worsen for them.
"Okay new plan we retreat to that hill over there, we can make our last stand there we should still have twelve tanks left. I have one last Nashorn and Brummbar. We fight to the last." Maho told Emi that they weren't going down without a fight.
"Okay got ya, meet you there in a few." Emi responded as the rag-tag group of tanks began making their way to the hill.
Katyusha meanwhile was enjoying this. The offensive through their second line of defenses was an excellent success. She grabbed the radio as she began to speak.
"That went a lot better than expected, we didn't take as many losses there compared to the first line of defense. I say we regroup our tanks for the final assault." Katyusha told Nonna as their groups were now going to merge together.
"Alina went ham on the field with her SU-152 and we pretty much knocked out all except for two of their tanks. The Kv-2 and the others will lead the bombardment while we try taking the high ground on the last hill." Nonna told Katyusha what the plan was. Katyusha nodded as she began making orders. "Nina Alina, you will bombard the hill so that Kuromorimine doesn't go up there and dig themselves in."
"You can count on me Katyusha." Nina called out as she wanted to give Katyusha her confidence. Katyusha nodded as she began giving out orders for other students to make their moves.
"Brook, Klara, you two will race ahead and take the hill. We don't want Kuromorimine to get settled up there and have the possibilities of them taking out our flag tank while we roll up." Katyusha gave the orders.
"Finally revenge will be mine!" Brook snickered as she wanted to get payback for a defeat earlier that year.
"And Nonna You're with me, we'll be advancing on Kuromorimine directly." Katyusha gave the order.
"Right you are." Nonna replied. The T-34's in Brook and Klara's groups respectively sped on ahead but they were going to be separated and traveling wide to avoid getting noticed by Kuromorimine. They were going to set the trap.
The rag-tag team of surviving tanks regrouped near the hill as they were going to climb it. Little did they know that Pravda was right on their heels.
"Emi, you and Erika will be escorting Olivia to the top of the hill as we will have a firing position as well as some place to dig in when Pravda comes knocking.
"Okay, all tanks that will escort the Nashorn up hill, follow me." Emi called out as she began to take the lead. Maho, El, Erika and Pomorie decided to stay behind to guard the flanks to make sure Pravda didn't come running. They slowly began backing up the hill to cover the weak spots with their flag tank and it having thin armor.
Pravda however managed to beat Kuromorimine in the race they were trying desperately to win. The SPG's arrived some distance away as Nina got out of the turret to observe. Kuromorimine barely began the journey up the hill.
"Perfect they haven't begun going up, excellent time to finish them off." Nina snickered. The SPG's began firing rapidly as they she had two plans in mind, the first and most obvious was to stop Kuromorimine and the second plan was to let Brook and Klara take the hill and charge down onto Kuromorimine while Katyusha went around and caught them from behind.
The tanks were rolling up the hill when the massive shells began going off as something was trying to hit them.
"What's going on?" El asked as she wanted to figure out what was going to happen.
"Pravda has beaten us to the hill before us." Emi gave her response as she knew she had to abandon the hill plan. "Everyone, fall back to the bottom of the hill." Emi's Panther was the first to turn away as it began retreating down the hill The other tanks began to follow as several T-34's crested the hill as Brook was now looking down.
"We've taken the hilltop in record timing. Not even Kuromorimine's turtles can struggle up the hill without losing their transmissions, Now we should begin raining fire down on top of them." Brook began positioning the tanks into a firing squad as she knew that Kuromorimine was surrounded. "Hammer them away!" Brook gave the order as the T-34's peppered the area with their shells. Emi and Olivia desperately tried firing back but the T-34's had them on all sides. Brook's gunner fired a shot which tore into the thinly armored Nashorn as that tank was taken out. A white flag popped up as the match was over and phase three was complete.
"And Pravda is the winner!" One of the judges called out as he was excited to see this. All of Pravda's fans cheered as they were impressed with the performance that they managed to pull off.
Katyusha and Nonna after the match had got themselves together as they wanted to discuss strategy going forward. Although victorious, this was raising some concerns among their students as they were becoming more and more outgunned.
"Although we gave them a good thrashing. Erika's Tiger 2 isn't going down without a fight and although the Kv-1 was effective for the beginning parts of the match, it is getting outgunned by these Panthers and Tigers. We need a better heavy tank if we are to continue pressing the attack." Nonna raised the concern as Nina decided to joke around a bit.
"I told Mama we'd see Elefants, Tigers and Panthers, she thought I was visiting Moscow zoo." Nina decided to tease them. Katyusha and Nonna ignored her.
"So we need a better tank to replace the Kv-1? Is that correct?" Katyusha asked Nonna if she was telling the truth.
"Yes it is. We need to do this fast or else Erika will bring out bigger and bigger tanks that we can't keep up with. We need to start rolling out the bigger tanks to counter the Tigers and Panthers. Also we need a new T-34 overall as the current ones feel like they can counter the Panzer 3 and 4 but not the new Panther." Nonna decided to make two goals for Pravda to solve until the next match. Make a new T-34 and a new heavy tank and put them on the team. Katyusha began to think.
"That should come around in a couple of days as we definitely have the solution to all of these in the storage room." Katyusha told Nonna not to fear.
"Yeah time to bring out the big guns to the field." Nonna snickered as she walked off to find the said tanks. Katyusha was ready to shake things up the next match going forward.
Pomorie and the others began to think as this match had ended in disaster, they just got kicked around by Pravda and now things were continuing to sour for them. Istria notified Pomorie with some interesting news about what was happening.
"Pomorie! We just got a deal from Anzio as they had a massive tank sell out." Istria began. Pomorie seemed interested in what was going on.
"When did you get the tanks?" Pomorie asked as she wanted to figure out when they received the tanks.
"Just today. Our expanded collecting included five Cv-33's, an Semovente 105/25 tank destroyer and a couple L13/40's." Istria told Pomorie about what was going on. Pomorie seemed excited about this.
"Anchovy was excited about giving you these tanks but what was her reasoning behind it?" Pomorie asked as she wanted to know what Anchovy was doing during this time.
"Anzio, according to Erika, is really divided. Some students like Anchovy meanwhile other students are looking for other leaders to take their place as these students are trying to bargain peace between Kay and Darjeeling and more importantly, join their side. Erika is really keen on helping her out while Olivia says no help for her and the reasoning why Olivia said no is that Olivia thinks we can't divert resources such as tanks and oil to help Anzio when they can barely hold Pravda back." Istria explained on what was going on. Pomorie began to think.
"She has a point. Why spend resources that you do not have helping someone else out when you can barely hold as it is?" Pomorie knew this was a troubling situation that Kuromorimine has found itself in.
"Also we reduced a lot of our strength as we are trying to shift away from Tankettes as those really don't do much and we need bigger tanks to try holding Pravda and Anzio's tanks that they sold to us for some extra money will make nice new additions." Istria told Pomorie that they were reducing their strength to take on newer tanks that Pravda was throwing at them.
"I understand but we need tanks ourselves." Pomorie voiced her concern as their tanks weren't strong enough to try holding Pravda back.
"Maho's tied with the Anzio debacle at the moment so she'll get around to us in the future." Istria told Pomorie not to worry.
"Let's hope this is the case." Pomorie told Istra. Pomorie gulped as their situation for them was now being held on a knife's edge.
[A/N]: What a wonderful March month this is and Spring is coming. With the matches coming along nicely we might continue our merry way as Kuromorimine continues to suffer.
I was debating to do this match as I thought this might be unnecessary as I kind of rushed through it but I wanted to do something as a follow up to chapter 12 back all of that time ago.
Istria's secured new tanks and Pravda is bringing their bigger tanks into the game. Yogurt Academy is falling dangerously behind along with all the other smaller schools as Kuromorimine isn't willing to supply them with tanks. If Maho does supply them with tanks, what tanks should Yogurt Academy get? I would like to hear your opinions. I will get to the next chapter as Pravda's march west continues.