[Gekkan Senshadou battle report] St. Gloriana vs. Yogurt [St. Gloriana]

Battle Overview

Line up

St. Gloriana: 1 x Churchill, 9 x Matilda II  

Yogurt: 2 x CV-33, 1 x Pz38t Ausf.G, 2 x Hotchkiss H-39, 1 x StuG III F/G, 1 x Panzer IV G/H, 1 x Jagdpanzer IV/L70, 1 x Hetzer, 1 x Panther D/G

Overview

Yogurt might have beaten Waffle thanks to the new dash of German firepower, but how well they will do against the traditional strong school St. Gloriana was still up to everyone’s guess. The stage was set on a hilly area, and everyone had agreed that whichever side who used the terrain better would surely win the match. St. Gloriana on the other hand decided to fight this battle as daring and as graceful as always.

The match began with Yogurt quickly securing a ridgeline overlooking the whole field and started firing away at St. Gloriana’s neatly-formed column from 3,000 meters away. However Yogurt’s abysmal accuracy hasn’t increased much from the last match even after the training, all they had achieved was knocking out one St. Gloriana’s Matilda on scout duty, while the rest of St. Gloriana tanks made it to the blind spot under their noses.

Darjeeling reformed her line into a herringbone shaped V, and intended to use her tanks’ superior hill climbing ability to rush up the slope. Just when St. Gloriana was moving into attack position, Yogurt’s tanks poked over the slope and concentrated all their fire on Darjeeling’s command tank. Darjeeling, calm as ever, simply put her tanks sideways to minimize the amount of area exposed to Yogurt’s fire, which earned a round of rousing applause from the audience. Smoke and dust thrown up from Yogurt’s shelling completely blocked Yogurt tanks’ line of sight, St. Gloriana took the chance and quickly climbed up the slope, through the smoke and started to engage Yogurt tanks on their side, throwing Yogurt into disarray. Darjeeling quickly assessed the situation, identified Yogurt’s flag tank was their Pz38(t), and began hunting it down. Pz 38(t) was trying to reverse away from the Churchill, but accidentally backed into a Jagdpanzer IV, and was quickly knocked out.

Right after the match, Darjeeling, showing her generosity, proposed to Yogurt’s deputy commander to have a practice match in near future. Although Yogurt lacked experience, they had showed a great effort which must have greatly impressed Darjeeling.