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Jul 29, 5:58 AM
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The empire took a bold move this episode imo. With the peace talks and negotiations, this was actually a very bold move for a military offensive.

Tanya also has an important role in this. On the other hand, I'm not that surprised how this went down. The Empire had to make a move that they believe is right.
Jul 29, 7:09 AM
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The Empire is now in full offensive mode even with peace talks ongoing. Tanya and her unit were called into action once more to be apart of the offensive and bring the fight to the enemy.
Jul 29, 7:18 AM
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Politic, optic, and fallacy slowly doomed the Empire...


Visha committed the worst tactical mistake of all, forgetting to remove the lens cap smh
Jul 29, 7:48 AM
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i can't wait for next ep. we all know whats going to happend at the end. they losing is now offical
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Jul 29, 7:51 AM
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Politicians never count the cost in blood. Only in how popular it is with the masses.
Jul 29, 8:02 AM
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I hope tanya leaves the army. and that old general gets assassinated.
Jul 29, 8:03 AM
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Rudersdorf, what are you on?!

Pretty surprised we opened up this episode with just him doing about his business as he wakes up with a stick first thing in the morning and pretty sure brimmed with guilt and scars that this war has brought.

Meanwhile, Tanya and her legion of death does their legion of death things. Even Viktoriya was confused why her boss is literally about to procrastinate in this operation and when Warren pinned the HQ, Tanya just went "F IT, TASTE DIVINE INTERVENTION" or whatever it is.

Yeah this episode felt like a 35% 3PT shooting night in an NBA game, there were buckets but not a lot of it. And there was a bit of hope but the Empire has taken its greed and wrath to a whole new level. The war goes on.
Jul 29, 8:12 AM
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It's a shame that we couldn't see the spell and blast in full length and scale.
Jul 29, 8:19 AM
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did they forget the sound of the tank engines? what the hell
Jul 29, 8:24 AM
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HOLY POLITIC! Welp, here comes the downfall of the empire.
Jul 29, 8:25 AM
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The first moments showed well just how grim the war has become. Nice to see the vets take the news calmly while keeping up morale. Sneaking through fed lines must had been tense. While im glad that victory this time was achieved the demands of the politicians are gonna make things worst. The wine dripping off from the table sure had the desired effect of mimicking the blood of the soldiers that would be bled to achieve their desired victory.
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Jul 29, 8:29 AM

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I'm going to be honest, this is getting boring. We're four episodes into the war on the Eastern front and we have yet to see any meaningful battle or the German forces really encountering any solid resistance whatsoever on-screen.
Jul 29, 8:41 AM

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Rudersdorff.. you dumb asshole!

Last episode I was really mad at this guy for not accepting the terms to end the war but in this episode it looked like it was mainly due to the pressure from above that forced his hand to continue the war but after managing to achieve victory with some level of acceptable terms that can put the lives of the lost men to rest, he still went ahead to continue this war to satisfy the masses and political bastards above and to satisfy his ego. Zettour should kill this guy.

More work for Tanya 💔
Jul 29, 8:42 AM

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Reply to Mainnus
Politic, optic, and fallacy slowly doomed the Empire...


Visha committed the worst tactical mistake of all, forgetting to remove the lens cap smh
@Mainnus but I guess that's fine too.. there's nothing worth remembering at this moment 'cause the war is about to continue
Jul 29, 8:43 AM

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I hope tanya leaves the army. and that old general gets assassinated.
@M_K1966 true..she can live a happy life if she defects
Jul 29, 8:45 AM
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10:10 Visha so sleep deprived 🤣

13:50 They actually found it 💀🤣poor Tanya, that’s sum Sonzai X shit right there too probably at play 🤣

14:10 Visha so scared 🤣

Visha taking a pic of Tanya at the end telling her to smile 🤭😁🤣
Jul 29, 8:45 AM

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Reply to Shingster
The first moments showed well just how grim the war has become. Nice to see the vets take the news calmly while keeping up morale. Sneaking through fed lines must had been tense. While im glad that victory this time was achieved the demands of the politicians are gonna make things worst. The wine dripping off from the table sure had the desired effect of mimicking the blood of the soldiers that would be bled to achieve their desired victory.
@Shingster Zettour was this close to smashing Rudersdorf's face
Jul 29, 9:35 AM

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“Why does he have to be right now?” When you actually have to do your job 😭

I’m dead af because Tanya is so over this war atp, just a couple days ago she thought the empire would surely make the reasonable decision to surrender and now here she is fighting and accidentally winning yet another battle which will make her even more popular and legendary among the top brass leading to more crazy jobs. Poor thing just wants to go lay in bed all day and she’s been turned into this world’s Eisenhower.

“No matter what the cost, our army shall be victorious” sigh, just like irl, old rich men in suits willing to sacrifice young men’s lives to save their political careers and keep power. The writing is on the wall, the empire needs this war to end. Supplies, morale and troop counts are running low yet the leadership is more concerned with the optics of not getting reparations and other confessions.

For someone like Rudersdorf who’s lost so many men and even his future son in law in this war, that was the ultimate betrayal and disrespect, so I understand him wanting to double down and protect his men’s integrity, but this is going to end terribly for everyone involved. Tanya may be incredible, but she’s one person and she can only do so much. Unfortunately doesn’t look like she’ll be going home anytime soon.
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Jul 29, 9:40 AM
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Wow, just Wow. After this episode, it looks like they are aiming to hit V11 Ch3 of the LN by the end of the season (if you know, you know). That would be skipping through 7 volumes in one 12 episode season. NGL, not feeling happy about this...

Also, in the first season they skipped most of the politics and strategy to focus on the action. This season they seem to be doing the exact opposite. I don't feel like it's really playing to the strengths of the medium.
Jul 29, 9:55 AM

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The war continues. The Powers That Be have deemed it necessary to continue the pointless spillage of Imperial blood and treasure in order to justify said spillage in the first place. I'm with Zettour here. Would it be so bad if the government was eaten alive by its own people?

Decent immersion on those days of Tanya riding the tank. I could feel the stress the soldiers were under, even when nothing was happening. Pedo-Commie seems to be also under pressure and getting drained by the war. We can only hope that he falls before my girl does. Let's send the politicians to the front lines. See how quickly the war ends then.
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Jul 29, 9:59 AM

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Visha and her candy during the motormarch.

Yeah, not confident about how much sacrifices are those aristocrats, statesmen, politicians, and diplomats going to put into the war effort.
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Jul 29, 9:59 AM
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@Shingster Zettour was this close to smashing Rudersdorf's face
@Niwaka-Samurai If Zettour actually did, I wouldn't blame him. A demotion is nothing compared to the blood that is about to spill from his "friend's" stupid decision
Jul 29, 10:17 AM
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my favorite thing in this show is when Tanya pulls a finger ill do it myself.
Jul 29, 10:36 AM
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Nahh

I want peace!
Jul 29, 10:43 AM

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Rudersdorf fell for it, hook, line and sinker. The peace negotiation plans were looking good, but that last meeting only tempted him down the path of greed insead, much to the dismay of his friend.

This does mean more work for Tanya. Her team had their own stamina-sapping mission, which did look rather tough, but they still pulled through. Even though their morale was running high, she's going to be pissed now that Rudersdorf's declaration to continue with the wat means that her dreams of peace will be, yet again, nothing more than a fleeting dream.

Great episode overall. =)
Jul 29, 10:59 AM
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It's a shame that we couldn't see the spell and blast in full length and scale.
THIS! It just feels like they cheaped out on animating it completely.
Jul 29, 11:13 AM

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wow Empire command is going full retard and not even Zettour can stop it
Jul 29, 11:29 AM
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W EPISODE!!! W Myth and roid as usual unskippable peak opening!! The ending was crazy I wonder how many soldiers they trying to sacrifise just what a mess and dumb decisioN!
Jul 29, 11:31 AM
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Reply to Mainnus
Politic, optic, and fallacy slowly doomed the Empire...


Visha committed the worst tactical mistake of all, forgetting to remove the lens cap smh
@Mainnus I was assuming she ruined the film since she didn't develop it in a dark room and exposed it to light. Both could be true I suppose.
Jul 29, 12:14 PM

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this guy truly doesnt know when to give up, he will be the sole reason the whole empire will fall.

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Jul 29, 12:15 PM

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@Mainnus I was assuming she ruined the film since she didn't develop it in a dark room and exposed it to light. Both could be true I suppose.
@radicalmac_ in the screenshot you can literally see the cover on

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Jul 29, 12:17 PM
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@radicalmac_ in the screenshot you can literally see the cover on
@HiljainenSipuli yeah no shit sherlock, you can also literally see her not exit a dark room.
Jul 29, 12:20 PM

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@HiljainenSipuli yeah no shit sherlock, you can also literally see her not exit a dark room.
@radicalmac_ what does that matter when the cover was on the whole time? she would have developed pure black because of the cover.

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Jul 29, 12:33 PM
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Imagine Tanya was in the room..she wouldn't hesitate to slaughter all those greedy superior
Jul 29, 12:42 PM

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Imagine Tanya was in the room..she wouldn't hesitate to slaughter all those greedy superior
@Gonta29 Tanya: 'I need to personally speak to the War Cabinet on an urgent matter, a plot to overthrow the government.'
Ministers: 'Okay, you are here now tell.'
Tanya: 'Let me show your something. pray incant pray incant, BOOOM! And that my dear ex superiors is the gist of the plot.'
'Oh, my, our Exalted Emperor, it appears you need some new, and better, ministers.'
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Jul 29, 12:49 PM
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Wtf was that guy talking about with being fine with having a civil war?
Jul 29, 1:02 PM

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They never know when to cut their losses. Luckily for them Tanya continues to shine as a miracle-worker (literally and figuratively) but even she will hit her limit soon, especially if even she is beginning to lose faith in their advance as she did during this operation. The second chance she won for them will go to waste, and at this point I'm just waiting for the one blunder that reverses their entire campaign and strips them of their delusion of invincibility. Too many men are dying for this to go on yet the politicians at the top don't seem to care.
Jul 29, 1:03 PM

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THIS! It just feels like they cheaped out on animating it completely.
@Templierx3 Hopefully they make up for it in a future episode
Jul 29, 1:08 PM
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The operation this episode was like a combination of Operation Market Garden and Case Yellow,just with mages. Though it seems that the fictional Germany is falling into the same situation as the real Germany.
Jul 29, 1:15 PM

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Wtf was that guy talking about with being fine with having a civil war?
@Orishaboy I'm not entirely sure but I think he was trying to say something along the lines of, if they start worrying about national stabiltiy and keep fighting the war strictly for that sake, it would hinder their war effort and their ability to fight off their enemy, at which point they would have to worry about enemy nations closing in as well as growing instability and potential uprisings at home. It would be better in his opinion to end the war while they still can and deal with the political fallout back home separately while they have a ceasefire. Of course it didn't matter in the end though, Rudersdorf remains determined to take the war to its destructive conclusion.
Jul 29, 1:41 PM
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Do you want to set fire to the graveyard? Because that's how you set fire to the graveyard.

They managed to negotiate some decent terms to end the war, and achieve victory for the empire, but sadly it's all about the money and they don't care how much blood they have to trade for it, on either side.
Jul 29, 1:51 PM
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"Drunk on victory..." moment, but for how long, until Tanya goes on vacation most likely lol!

These fucking higher ups and imperial family members are so fucking greedy, like do they want the whole not-Europe continent under their control??? Ok, so we beat the Russians by the end of the season, but then what, the other allied forces are still waiting for the Empire to throw their win streak... Are they gonna ask for peace after the East invasion is complete? Again, they will say: "We still have troops to spare, don't we?; so lets see what more shit we can take, we gotta keep our citizens morale up with the win streak and propaganda shit", literally copying the commies agenda to keep to civil unrest down to a minimum while they are getting attacked from all angles lmao...

I do hope there is some sort of mission similar to the movie where the crazy allied girl goes into the Empire Capital and starts blowing up some HQs or palaces with the royal family members in it... 'cause until it directly hurts and kills the nobility, they'll never ask for a peace or ceasefire...

9/10, seems to me like they are in a rush with this season, guess that after the development hell of this one, it won't get a 3rd season, maybe another movie to farm some more money... Sad to see the schedule for this shit be so fucking abysmal, 10 years for a new season, like why even bother at that point if you lost most of the momentum and hype and money... Curious to see those BD sales and how they compare to the season 1!
Jul 29, 1:57 PM
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It’s obvious who’s the real person pulling the strings behind this war
Jul 29, 2:25 PM
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Tanya's never gonna get that peace deal. It's always the greed from the people in power. I sometimes forget that she was a horrible person in power in her previous life and this is the punishment.

That battle and HQ destorying went way too smoothly for a war, almost felt kinda flat. I couldn't tell who gravestone Rudersdorf was visiting, I assume it was his daughter's fiances he mentioned. Which probably also played a part in his decision. Yani Neko would be all over those smokes.
Jul 29, 2:44 PM
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yes yes yes yes yes
Jul 29, 2:57 PM
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🙄 Rudersdorff, so much🩸is about to be spilled.
Jul 29, 2:58 PM

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Don't those imbeciles realize that the empire is collapsing?
Jul 29, 3:53 PM

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Haha poor Viktoriya forgot to take the lens off the camera.
Jul 29, 4:46 PM
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Reply to Mainnus
Politic, optic, and fallacy slowly doomed the Empire...


Visha committed the worst tactical mistake of all, forgetting to remove the lens cap smh
@Mainnus Yes, this was very, very bad optics indeed! ROFLMAO
Jul 29, 4:53 PM
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Dear God, I know they will fail this war according to the movie but it still makes angry after seeing him getting obsess with vengeance instead of protect the live of those who are still alive

AND the bigger thing is that, if you think for 2 seconds, you have to take into account that England and the USA havent started a full war against them yet! Going for the kill against the Russians is gonna leave them so dry that the will lose to a literal coughing baby
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