Éclair the new Boss

Éclair is Female her Pronounce are She/Her. Éclair has a Vagina and D Cups. Éclair Speak English French and a Little German since she lives in Straßbourg which was a Former German City. Éclair is a French Women and her Parent's seem to have money since she is on a Private School. Éclair is a second-year student from Maginot Girls' College. She is the actual overall commander of her school's Sensha-dō Team and she operates a French SOMUA S35. Éclair is a medium-sized girl that is around 1,59m tall, she also has long dark hair with blue highlights and a pair of light blue eyes. She is usually seen wearing the Maginot Girls College uniform with a red Ribbon around her neck. During battle, she wears the school's sensha-dō uniform. Before Éclair has taken over as the head of Maginot's Sensha-dō Team, Éclair was a rather impulsive girl who seemed to be obsessed with victory. Tired of losing, she goes as far as verbally confronting her commander and provoking her to a duel. After winning that duel and taking over the role of commander, she faces humiliation when confronted by the realization that the role of commander is a real burden to carry. This becomes particularly acute when the 3rd year students refuse to take orders from a 2nd year student, making Éclair cry in frustration and disappointment. It's shown that Éclair is a dedicated, hard-working commander, watching replays of her defeats over and over again in order to recognize the faults of her tactics. Though Éclair is an overall competent and charismatic commander, her inexperience lets her fail. Éclair is also studious type, but she does not show that since she considers it uncharismatic. Éclair enlisted in sensha-dō due to her admiration of Shiho Nishizumi (at time she practiced sensha-dō and even after) and her desire to be like her. Unfortunately for Éclair, sensha-dō is different from what she expected due to Maginot's exclusively defensive tactics that disallow tanks to move on to the front-line. Tired of this, she began to question her commander's tactics and skills. Four months before the 63ʳᵈ National High School Sensha-dō Tournament Éclair confronted her commander, Madeleine, accusing her of using archaic tactics that are responsible for Maginot's consecutive losses. She suggests adopting more mobile tactics and, eventually, unable to prevail against Madeleine's will to protect traditions, provokes Madeleine to a duel for the head of the school. She manages, with difficulty, to win, and after the match Madeleine gives her Spade Blue collar patches and the title of "Commander of Maginot Girls' College," saying that she will carry the responsibility for Maginot's traditions. After becoming commander Éclair tries to impose her new strategy, a strategy favouring mobility inspired by Napoleon's cavalry tactics called the "Saint-Cyr Style", but she learns quickly the harsh realities of being a commander. She's always in conflict with other students; the 3rd years ignore her commands, and the 2nd and 1st years don't do as they're told since they're self-conscious of being watching by their senpais. After a training where she is constantly downplayed by 3rd years, a member of the sensha-dō team named Fondue proposes herself as the vice-commander. Éclair, at first irritated by Fondue's behaviour and familiarity, eventually accepts her offer. After Fondue's alliance, the 3rd years become openly hostile towards her. Éclair then learns from her senpai that earning the title of commander doesn't give her the respect of Madeleine's followers. That is the beginning of Éclair's chronic stomach-ache. She needs to take a lot of Medicine because her stomach.

About Éclair's School: Behavior and policy: Maginot students are expected to be extremely well-behaved, polite, and respectful. They are usually very eager to learn, but their individual creativity is somewhat lacking, and this deficiency translates over to senshado, where individual initiative and flexible tactics are seen as less important than demonstrating traditional French tactics. Though group discipline is very good, individual discipline can vary wildly. This makes cooperation rather difficult, especially with the school's maneuver-focused doctrine.

As a school-wide policy, creativity is not promoted, with the exception of art, film, and theatre classes. As a result, while the students are not especially original or innovative, they can focus heavily on certain skills, honing their talents to the point of mastery. The most notable example of this is Maginot’s famous culinary classes. Such is their reputation that some students enrol specifically for that class. Their cuisine highlights the simplicity of flour and buckwheat and the richness of wild vegetables, game fowl, and mushrooms.

Materiel: Maginot exclusively fields vehicles developed in and used by France. The Renault FT (better known as the FT-17) and the R35 fill the light tank role. Maginot uses the SOMUA S35 Cavalry Tank as its medium tank, and the Renault B1 Bis as its heavy tank. While Maginot's line up may seem respectable on paper, technical issues and outdated engineering cripple the team in matches. One major drawback of their tanks is that they were not designed to carry radios, a feature required by the Senshado Federation. But even with emergency radios on board, communication seems to be a weak link in Maginot’s team. There have been discussions about fielding the ARL-44 as Maginot’s wonder weapon, but due to a lack of funds, crews, and confidence in the tank's capabilities, it seems Maginot will not be using the ARL-44 in the near future.

Tactics: Maginot's standard tactics revolve around a defensive battle group. The SOMUA S35 sits at the center, surrounded by light tanks, while the B1 heavy tank is kept in reserve for use against heavier targets. This formation requires crew members to be disciplined enough not to panic when a potential break occurs.

The other schools have said that even though Maginot's tanks and tactics may be old and useless, its crews are accustomed to brute force, since their defensive formation subjects them to a great deal of fire.

Where Éclair's school stands. Éclair's School is in Straßbourg a City near the Maginot line that's why here schools name is Maginot. Her School also specialise in wine Making. But She also Visits BC freedom a Rival school sometimes to look over there Wine Fields in Paris since BC Works for Maginot or at least there wine fields.

Uniform: Maginot's school uniform consists of a white, high-necked, Victorian-style ruffle blouse with a pink ribbon tied around the neck, a navy blue pleated skirt, and black socks and shoes.

Maginot's senshado uniform consists of a blue jacket with two rows of gold buttons, gold stripes on the sleeves, gold and blue epaulettes and collar badges, a white blouse with a red tie underneath the jacket, a white short tight skirt, and a pair of boots. Their collar badges are composed of one of the four card suits and a color in French (Heart Blanc, Clubs Rouge, Diamond Vert, Spade Bleu, etc.). The highest-ranking badge seems to be Spade Bleu.

Background: Maginot is a private girls' school, based in Straßbourg. Due to its landlocked nature, the school's submarine port is actually located in Shizuoka Prefecture. It was created to preserve the knowledge of winemaking after its founder returned to France. The ability to make wine with the traditional foot-crushing method is the only reason Maginot is a girls-only institution.

Maginot has a long history of losing senshado matches, but the punishments for defeats are still very harsh.

Éclair's Acquaintance's: Marie is a student from Escalator faction of BC Freedom Academy, she is the overall commander and commanded a FT-17 with the emblem "Red Heart". Marie is a short girl with her 1,50m, Marie also has long blond hairs that is ringlet and dark green eyes. She is seen wearing BC Freedom's Sensha-dō uniform inside matches and the schoolgirl one outside. She is also often seen with a fluffy fan with the school emblem on it. Marie is more graceful and posed than her vice-commanders who are more hot-blooded. She does seem to be gluttonous as she is always seen eating cakes. Due to her having another crew in the FT (which is a 2-man tank), she is unable to enter the tank. Instead due to her sitting on a cushion on the tank, another trait of hers is that of carelessness with it being impossible for her to enter the tank even while under heavy fire from enemy tanks, She also seems haughty and initially condescending refusing to bow during the greetings before the match against Ooarai and mocking her opponent during the match. Despite her spoiled attitude and the fact she seems ignorant about general Escalator and Examination faction student's constant quarrelling, she representing political centrism often doing her best to make them cooperate such a force them to team up against her in a training match or messing with her hair and uniform to focus the attention on her preventing them for arguing. Marie also seems to be a graceful loser, praising Ooarai’s tactics and inviting their team to a shared meal. Being the overall commander, she’s a good strategist, being able to stage a violent altercation between the two faction that’s so convincing that it’s enough to fool Ooarai that BC Freedom is beyond any cooperation between its factions. Marie is 19 years old. Marie is a Fully French Women and can speak English and French.

Ruka Oshida is a student of BC Freedom Academy. She is an "escalator student", meaning that she was able to enter the high school without having to sit for entrance exams. In Sensha-Do, Ruka is one of BC Freedom's executive officers, and also commands BC Freedom's ARL 44 company. Her personal command tank has the emblem of a blue club. Ruka is an average-sized girl with her 1,61m hight, Ruka also has shoulder-length, slightly messy light blond hair and blue eyes. She is seen wearing BC Freedom's sensha-dō uniform during matches and the schoolgirl uniform outside. Same as another Escalator students she have distinctive Bourgeoise-Aristocratic Behaviour. She is seen to be quite hot-blooded and somewhat condescending and arrogant toward Examination faction students, especially her rival Rena Andou. However, Ruka is capable of putting her animosity aside to achieve victory. She is also very loyal to her commander Marie being from the same faction and often has to look after her. While supposedly representing BC Freedom's higher class, Ruka seems to be quite negligent about her appearance, often fiddling with her hair, making it messy, and sometimes having wardrobe malfunctions. Ruka Oshida is a Fully French Women and can speak English and French. Ruka is 19 years old

Rena Andou is a student of BC Freedom Academy. She is the vice-commander from Examination faction, and she commands an SOMUA S35 with the emblem "Green Spade." Rena is an average-sized, tanned-skin girl with shoulder length spiked-messy black hairs and gray eyes. She is seen wearing BC Freedom's sensha-do uniform inside matches and the schoolgirl one outside. Being part of the “lower class” of BC Freedom, she seems quite negligent on her appearance with her always having messy hair. Andou also wears a uniform in a casual manner with her vest being instead used as a cardigan. While hot-blooded she seems to not have assumption to diplomacy and have tendency to solve disputes in a forceful manner. Since she representing ”revolutionary class” of BC Freedom hold a grudge against Escalator faction students mocking them as "warm-house-raised" and says that those who have not survived the entrance exam war cannot fight. She is often criticising her commander often attracting Oshida's wrath, however she is capable of putting her animosity aside to achieve victory. While capable of working as a team with the Escalator faction, their truce is still patchy. Although their teamwork did improve as a result of the match against Ooarai, it also appears that it doesn't take much for them to continue fighting, throwing aside their truce. Rena is 19 years old. Rena is Half French Half Algerian, and she can speak English and French. Rena Family is really poor so she got a hatred towards People that come from rich Family but she can also put her hatred aside sometimes. The only thing Rena hates more then Everything are Germans since she read trough the History of France and sees Germany as Enemy number one.

Rena Ruka and Marie are all From BC Freedom Academy: About BC Freedom Academy: It was said that some time ago, BC Freedom had a competent senshado team. The school had even managed to become one of the four best schools. With the recent infighting amongst the students, however, their internal discord has resulted in them losing matches.

BC Freedom is divided into the affluent Escalator students and the middle-to-lower class Examination students, mirroring the pre-revolutionary French Second and Third Estates respectively. This social divide has caused great discord between the two groups. The Escalator students think of the Examination students as unrefined, classless outsiders, while the Examination students think of the Escalator students as sheltered, condescending, and arrogant.

These two groups fight over anything and everything. One notable fight was about food: the Examination students would not eat the fancy, luxurious, and very expensive French food being served on the ship, while Escalator students would never lower their standards to serving common food, such as udon. The Examination group even staged a protest against the food being served.

After Marie’s intervention, both groups came to terms with one another and learned to cooperate as a school.

Material of BC Freedom Academy: In the Das Finale OVA, BC Freedom’s tank roster comprised of the ARL44 heavy tanks used by the Escalator group, and the SOMUA S35 medium cavalry tank by the Examination group. A WW1-era Renault FT17 light tank was used by Marie, the team’s overall commander.

Supplementary Materials Due to their sudden union, BC Freedom Academy operates a mishmash of very different tanks. Originally BC High School operated early-war French tanks such as the Hotchkiss H39, SOMUA S35, Renault R35, B1 Bis or AMR-35, while Freedom High School operated American or German tanks such as the M4A1 & M4A2 Sherman, Panther Ausf.G, M5 Stuart or M22 Locusts. They also possess a Valentine Mk.V (non-operational) and an M10 Wolverine (never been fielded due to its open-topped turret).

They are said to possess an FCM F1 multi-turreted superheavy tank, but it has not seen combat. It is suspected to be either non-operational or lacking adequate combat ability.

Tactic's of BC Freedom Academy: In the Das Finale OVA, the animosity between the Escalator and Examination groups has caused their senshado team to be unorganized, lacking a proper doctrine. Once Marie helped to settle their differences, and both groups agreed to act as one coordinated team, their abilities surprised everyone who watched their match against Oarai. They proved adept at fighting their enemies when the advantage was with them, and coordinated enough that, when things did not go their way, they immediately regrouped to develop a better position and continue fighting.

Teamwork and coordination has become the main doctrine of BC Freedom's senshado team, with their powerful ARL-44’s used for their firepower and range, while their more nimble SOMUA S35’s are used for their mobility.

BC Freedom Academy is in the Mainland of France Directly in Paris.

BC Freedom Academy Uniform: BC Freedom’s uniform consists of a white shirt with a red and blue necktie, a deep blue jumper skirt worn over, with a royal blue cardigan, and a pair of Mary Jane shoes.

The senshado uniform consists of a white shirt underneath a blue double-breasted vest and a blue jacket; they often wear a blue kepi with their insignia on it.

History of BC Freedom Academy: The story of BC Freedom Academy begins with Maginot Girls' Academy and their insatiable lust for wine.

Due to problems acquiring a steady supply of wine grapes, it was considered to be more economical to build not one, but two schools for the sole purpose of supplying Maginot. Thus began the story of BC High School and Freedom High School.

Freedom High School hailed from the city of Calais. Their vineyards flourished and expanded, eventually dominating school.

BC High School originally hailed from the landlocked city of Paris. Their ventures into growing wine grapes ended in failure, forcing them to look elsewhere. They found moderate success by focusing on general education, home economics, commercial, and manufacturing classes. Both schools found their purposes, but it didn't last.

Due to administrative blunders and funding cuts, both schools deteriorated to a point where it was no longer considered economical for both schools to be kept afloat. It was then decided by the administration to take advantage of the situation by promoting inter-school relationships with a union of two different but similar schools. Thus the story of BC Freedom Academy begins. BC High School's former location in Paris was kept as the school grounds, while they Closed Freedom High School's former location in Calais. Now Both Schools are in Paris unified as BC Freedom Academy.

The union backfired. It became a colossal failure, with distrust and mutual hatred between the former two schools now forced to occupy a single ship. With its non-existent teamwork and constant power struggle, the union only managed to waste even more funds and damage the administration’s reputation even further. Eventually the power struggle sputtered out into a Freedom side domination, but the tensions continue and the frustrations are still accumulating.

About Sensha-do: Sensha-dō is a form of martial arts that involves the use of tanks as weapons. This martial art is exclusive for women who start practicing it as early as from elementary school up to high school, university and adulthood. According to an old film called “Introduction to Sensha-dō”, the purpose of Sensha-dō is for women to grow their self-esteem, assist them in becoming professional and efficient citizens and develop the characteristics necessary to become good wives and mothers. Given the film was released in 1939 and sound more like propaganda, by the time of the events featured in the anime Sensha-dō is seen and treated more like a sport in which girls have fun and compete generally in a friendly way and where you have, like in most modern-day sports, leagues, tournaments, regulations, teams and spectators watching Sensha-dō matches in the stands or in television.

Gameplay: Sensha-dō is conduct like a team sport, where a group of girls drive a certain number of tanks organized into a team and fight an opposing team on a field previously chose and whose dimensions and terrain can vary from one match to another. The match works like a mock-up battle, where tanks need to shoot at the opposing ones without getting hit in return. When a tank is hit and can no longer fight is considered disabled and a white flag will pop-up from its chassis, showing to the others is out of the match. The main objective in order to win depends on the type of match, namely there are two: Flag battle: the most common type of match seen during the series. One team must eliminate the opposing team's flag tank in order to win the match, while at the same time preventing them from knock out its own flag tank. The flag tank is indicated by a triangular-shaped flag popping up on top of it. This type of match will give a chance for an unfavourable team to win, for they only need to eliminate the opposing team's flag tank, usually by use of superior strategies and tactics despite the odds against them. Elimination battle: one team must eliminate all its opposing team's tanks in order to win the match. This type of match will favour the team with superior tanks, for it is a battle of attrition. Elimination battles will be the norm for the incoming Pro League encounters.

Rules: The rules and regulations of Sensha-dō are set by the Japanese Sensha-dō Federation and there are many, covering the most various topics from the number of tanks that can be used during the matches to the compensations for private propriety’s damages. The Federation is also responsible for the participant’s safety and, among its duties, they must provide the teams with ammunition treated specifically to have a low penetration impact when they hit a tank. They must also verify that tanks used during the matches respect the regulations of the Federation and are covered internally with special materials that offer extra protection to its occupants.

To determine if a shell would have knock out a tank or not each shell have an internal micro-chip that, when the shell hit a tank, send data to a black box located inside said tank. The black box calculate various factors such as distance, trajectory, caliber of the shell, velocity, armor thickness of the tank and so on to determine if that shot would have penetrated or not. This system works similarly to the real-life MILES technology used by many armed forces all around the globe for training.

There are two main bodies that manage the Sensha-dō activities:

Japan Sensha-dō Federation (JFS): the chief organization for the Sensha-dō, responsible of all the official tournaments within the country. It is divided in subbranches. High School Sensha-dō Federation: supervise the Sensha-dō activities in the high schools. University Sensha-dō Federation: supervise the Sensha-dō activities in the universities. Pro League Sensha-dō: recently formed, it supervises the preparations for the incoming World Cup that will be hosted in Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT): cooperate alongside the Japan Sensha-dō Federation to strengthen Sensha-dō in the schools. It is also responsible for the maintenance of the school carriers.

Tournaments and events: Sensha-dō teams participate in several competitions and events, both official and unofficial. Among them there are:

Sensha-dō World Cup: competition in which national teams from all over the world battle for the title of champions of the world. The next World Cup will be held in Japan. National High School Sensha-dō Tournament: Japanese national tournament for the high school Sensha-dō teams held every year during summer. Is a single-elimination tournament, with sixteen teams battling in flag matches. In the first two rounds a maximum of ten tanks per team are allowed, increasing to fifteen in the semi-finals and to twenty in the finals. The current champion is Ooarai Girls Academy. Winter Continuous Track Cup: a tournament created to commemorate the foundation of the Japan Sensha-dō Federation. Twenty years before the anime main events it was closed but, because of the new policy of reinforcing the Sensha-dō throughout the country for the incoming Pro League selections for the World Cup, it has been restored shortly after the 63rd High School Sensha-Dō Tournament. The tournament format works like the National High School Sensha-dō Tournament one. The Commemorative Cup: a tournament held after the National High School Sensha-dō Tournament, traditionally hosted in the champion’s hometown.