The Arts of Warfare aren't just about the fights. It's also about everyone that participates in them, including what they do every day outside of combat. What happens when the Panzerkraft girls are let loose in their everyday lives? Very interesting things. What about if the Jägermeistern guys are included as well? Get ready for a lot of tomfoolery. Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
Aboard the Zuikaku, the Ooarai Panzerkraft team was in the midst of yet another practice. They were having another of their big practices, meaning everyone was in their combat uniforms. This one had the tanks split into two teams and fight each other. Once again, the Jägermeistern team's SPAAs were brought in to shake things up. They were in a sort-of Freie-Jagd mode, where they simply roamed the battlefield on their own looking for targets of opportunity.
For the moment some time after the fight started, the 8,8 cm Flak 37 Sfl. was stopped in part of the woods trying to stay concealed for the moment. Kolari and Satiainen were not part of the crew now, but instead Erich took their place. He had his Sturmgewehr 44 with him as well, plus a full ammunition load.
Soon, though, Herz looked up from his gunner's post over to Erich. "Hey, Erich, you want to give it a go with the gun this match?" he asked.
Erich raised an eyebrow as he looked to Herz. "Why?" he replied.
"I just felt like you might've wanted to give it a try," Herz offered with a shrug.
Erich thought for a bit before he answered with a shrug, "Eh, alright."
He and Herz then switched spots, and Erich entered the gunner's seat for the mighty Acht-Acht.
"Man, this is definitely different from anything I've used before," Erich commented as he looked through the dual axis crosshair within the gun sight.
Soon, though, all of the FAMO's crew grew on edge as they heard the distinctive noise of an MG 34 firing in bursts. It sounded pretty far away, though, and so the crew simply tried figuring out which direction it came from.
"There," Erich spoke up as he pointed the gun to the right. The right of their area consisted of some more trees followed by a large plain. Erich could see through the gun sight that the source of the fire was the hull-mounted MG 34 of the flag Panzer IV H for one team. It was all the way on the other side of the plain just peeking out of the trees opposite the Acht-Acht as the hull MG 34 randomly shot into the general area of the woods that the heavy Flak gun was currently concealed in. "… What is she doing?" he wondered with clear confusion.
"I dunno, it's Saori we're talking about here" Anton shrugged as he looked on through a GwZF4-fach while he stood through his hatch. "But you can fire at will."
Upon getting the signal, Nathan and Herz both heaved one of the 88x571mmR rounds into the breech of the Flak gun. "Loaded!" they both informed after the process was completed.
Erich proceeded to line up his target, which judging by the marks on the range axis was around 2,000 meters away. "Two thousand meters is in effective range, right Herz?" he asked.
"Easily," Herz confirmed.
Erich then slowly breathed out and depressed the trigger.
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"Ex-hil-ar-at-ing!" Saori girlishly proclaimed with a blush after firing off the Panzer IV H's hull-mounted MG 34 for the first time.
"Yeah. For some reason, that's what everyone says…" Miho said while standing out of her commander's hatch with a smile mixed with slight confusion. "What with that one old film and all…"
She then just barely noticed what she could immediately identify as a gun flash from the trees that Saori had randomly shot at with her MG 34. Miho quickly reacted as she called out, "Incoming!"
But even the ace crew of the Panzer IV could not react fast enough, and it was struck by the powerful shot. The impact rocked the girls quite a bit, but there were no injuries besides some disappointment upon their white flag going up in defeat.
"Match is over!" she heard Yeager announce over the radio. He and the aeronautics guys were spectating everything from above in their custom Fieseler Fi 156. "The 8,8 cm Flak 37 Sfl. took down A Team's flag Panzer IV H!"
Soon, Miho heard the sound of someone else more familiar to her singing part of a very familiar-to-her song over the radio.
"Und läßt uns im Stich einst das treulose Glück, Und kehren wir nicht mehr zur Heimat zurück, Trifft uns die Todeskugel, ruft uns das Schicksal ab, ja, Schicksal ab.
Dann wird unser Panzer ein ehernes Grab!
Dann wird unser Panzer ein ehernes Grab!"
From the words, Miho was able to deduce exactly who had shot her, and she was also able to deduce the teasing message behind them. She then sighed and lowered her head with a smile of resignation. She then got on the radio and admitted, "You got me, Bubi."
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Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
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