History Headscratchers / GirlsUndPanzer

** Each school's battle doctrines correspond to the countries they are themed after from WW2. Being themed after Nazi Germany, KMM's dominance has gone to their heads. They are set in their ways and think they have it a figured out. If they lose, they think it's because someone didn't follow the playbook, not because they failed to adapt.

*** The owner of an Õarai (the city, not the school) shop overrun by a Matilda positively {{Squee}}s at the oportunity to remodel it with the insurance money, prompting the fellow shop owner sitting next to him to pray for HIS shop also to be demolished

** From what I remember Maho's school is refered to as a college...

*** NASCAR isn't a good example. Other motorsports allow teams to bring in cars of their choice, tuned the way they want, as long as they fit into the rules. Think Formula 1 or spirtscar racing where technology and equipment matters as much as skill.

* Why doesn't Sensha-do have timeouts? Or refs? Or any kind of emergency response, really? Sensha-do is a sport, not real warfare. [[spoiler: Miho's choice to save her teammates at the expense of the match shouldn't have even been a choice...play should've been suspended while emergency responders saved the girls in the sinking tank.]]

** The answer to the first is that Yukari is a fan of everything related to tanks, WW2 and military parafernalia (she goes as far as to collect military foods, including modern [=MREs=]). Nishizumi style is widely considered the heart of Japanese Sensha-do, of course she would fangirl about Miho's family. As for the second, Chiyo was just approached by Shiho herself to set up a match between her team and Miho's. Even if Shiho personally sees Miho as not a practitioner of Nishizumi style, she is stil part of the Nishizumi family and Chiyo wouldn't make such disctinction, specially under the circumstances.

* Is it ever mentioned if the tanks are actual WW2 tanks modified for Sensha-do or reproductions? Because while most of the tanks used seem common enough to have been military surplus, and the Maus and T28 could be explained by Shiho's influence and the MEXT representative's pulling strings, Oorai's original team apparently managed to get an almost as rare Tiger(P). And none of these are Japanese tanks which likely only made them even harder to come by for Japanese based schools to aquire if they're supposed to be originals.
** The rules of Senshado strongly encourage the use of working vintage tanks, and due to the exitance of the sport original parts are still produced by some of the manufacturers still in business. But reproductions (by said manufacturers or third parties) are permitted if it can be certified by the Federation that they were built using the original production methods. So some tanks can trace their existence all the way back to their respective world wars, while some others were constructed in modern times.

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*** Or, it could just be typical anime absurdity. What's realistic about giving teenage girls command of WWII-era tanks to begin with, let alone cost or logistics?

*** NASCAR isn't a good example. Other motorsports allow teams to bring in cars of their choice, tuned the way they want, as long as tgey fit into the rules. Think Formula 1 or spirtscar racing where technology and equipment matters as much as skill.

** Since it's shown that the shells carry electronics with them, maybe they self destruct before hitting the exposed crew member and cause the victim's tank to pop the white flag.

*** There's a rather strange inversion in the English dub with the 'StuG III', which is always referred to as the "Assault III". While it isn't technically wrong to refer to it as such, seeing as 'StuG' is a shortening of "Sturmgeschütz", which means "assault gun", you'd hardly hear anyone with the smallest interest in German AFVs refer to it using that name. The puzzling thing is, it's the only name in the English dub that's been anglicised.

*** Kind of veers into WMG territory, but I had always assumed that boys had some sort of mock infantry sport in place of tankery. You can overhear a girl in the first episode say that they just can't imagine a boy participating in tankery, and my best guess as to why is that it's not considered dangerous enough. The girls may be driving multi-ton behemoths and firing ammunition at each other, but the most amount of danger anyone is ever really in is when that tank slid into the water in one of Maho's previous battles. For the most part they're hidden away safely in heavily armored machines, and rarely if ever actually engage in hand-to-hand combat. Boys in their society likely partake in something similar to trench warfare, where they're out on the front-lines actually engaging in physical battle.

*** Kind of veers into WMG territory, but I had always assumed that boys had some sort of mock infantry sport in place of tankery. You can overhear a girl in the first episode say that they just can't imagine a boy participating in the tankery, and my best guess as to why is that it's not considered dangerous enough. The girls may be driving multi-ton behemoths and firing ammunition at each other, but the most amount of danger anyone is ever really in is when that tank slid into the water in one of Maho's previous battles. For the most part they're hidden away safely in heavily armored machines, and rarely if ever actually engage in hand-to-hand combat. Boys in their society likely partake in something similar to trench warfare, where they're out on the front-lines actually engaging in physical battle.

** Kind of veers into WMG territory, but I had always assumed that boys had some sort of mock infantry sport in place of tankery. You can overhear a girl in the first episode say that they just can't imagine a boy participating in the tankery, and my best guess as to why is that it's not considered dangerous enough. The girls may be driving multi-ton behemoths and firing ammunition at each other, but the most amount of danger anyone is ever really in is when that tank slid into the water in one of Maho's previous battles. For the most part they're hidden away safely in heavily armored machines, and rarely if ever actually engage in hand-to-hand combat. Boys in their society likely partake in something similar to trench warfare, where they're out on the front-lines actually engaging in physical battle.

** Can't explain the absence of M4A3E2 or Easy Eight, but team captain Kay's favourite tank is given as "M4 Sherman (all variants)", and she doesn't seem hell-bent on winning. If she has enough influence, it's possible she put together a team she'll love playing with, instead of the most optimal lineup her school could afford (or even put together out of tanks they have).