Lüneburg Academy vs Royal Baron Academy

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VSG and RSR

## Teams

Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy
The Royal Baron Academy

## Team Commanders

Johannes "Rommel" Wittmann
Yuichi "Monty" Yamamoto

## Strength

**2x** Tiger I**2x** Tiger II
**2x** VK. 16.02 Leopard
**4x** Panthers
**5x** Panzer IV

**1x** Black Price**2x** Harry Hopkins
**4x** Challenger (A30)
**4x** Cromwell (A27M)
**6x** Crusader Mk. III (A15)

## Tanks Immobilized

Seelze Sehned
Melbeck
Bardowick
Bücken
Handorf
Freden
Elme
Warmsen
Estorf
Neinburg

WandsworthLambeth
Southwark
Bexley
Kensignton
Barking
Chelsea
Ealing
Haringey
Westminster
Dagenham
Hammersmith
Fulham
Greenwich
Londinium

The battle between the newly arrived Hanseatic Lüneburg Academy and the prestigious Royal Academy was a friendly match and an unofficial grand welcome for the former's arrival in Japan. The match ground comprised of a beach, a vast bocage, 3 bridges, and a large village. The match ended with the victory of the Vorhut Sensha-dou Geschwader.

## Overview

The friendly match between the Vorhut Sensha-dou Geschwader and the Royal Sensha-dou Regiment happened as a result of Rommel accepting the invitation of Monty. The match itself was located on one of the training fields for Sensha-dou matches in Japan, specifically it is located on the remote south of Sumoto, in the island of Awaji of Hyōgo Prefecture.

The remote south is now used for the JSF as it was the remnants of Japan's rapid development in commissioning School-Ships in the 1960s. Currently the South of Sumoto is one of many JSF sanctioned fields for training Sensha-dou, provided that the match is refereed by an official JSF judge.

The match started in the afternoon of March 2012.

## Preparation

Each side prepared 20 tanks, totaling the number of 40. But only 30 were fielded as the remaining tanks on each side were on reserve in case any difficulties they might encounter before the start of the match.

The RSR arrived early in the morning, setting up a camp that overlooks the beach below them. Commanded by Yuichi Yamamoto, the team's line-up followed the doctrine of ambushes and defense, an unorthodox strategy by Monty. Meanwhile later that day, Johannes Wittmann arrived the field through a 'grand entrance' by crashing Lüneburg's transport ship on the beach while sending his assistant to confront the patience Monty on behalf of him beforehand. Unlike Monty, Rommel's line-up consists of vehicles capable for an aggressive march and can initiate on envelopment on all side in unison.

The preparation only ended upon both side prepared their tanks on the starting point of the match's locale.

## Results

Since the beginning of the match till it reached its middle section of its entire duration, the match was heavily going towards the side of the RSR thanks to their home territory and adept to ambushes, in which they managed push the VSG's heel back. But the VSG managed to turn the tables after that and it ended with a stunning 11 vs 15 tanks immobilized, practically all the Royalty Tanks on that annihilation match. And so with the games concluded, the VSG of Lüneburg Academy won the friendly match.

Though in Monty's eyes, they managed to gain some victory on their own, and that's by their successful observation of either one of their targets or the entire line-up itself, either way, he remained humbled as he accepted this first defeat as Japan's unofficial representative against their new threat regarding Japan's Sport Sakoku.