Hello, my loyal readers...

First off, I want to thank everyone, especially those who have been with me since I started this story a year and a half ago. The support I've been getting from all of you was especially inspiring to keep me going with Cold Steel, and feedback from you is eventually what got me to put Gerhard and Maho as a couple, something I never planned to do in the first place. Also, I somewhat regret not remembering to show the Soviets encountering Kuromorimine's Maus...that would have been a brilliant battle.

Cold Steel was a product of me listening to the Girls Und Panzer soundtrack while messing around in War Thunder with my brand-new KV-1. The idea just hit me, and I wrote it down, refined it a little, and ended up with this. And with the fairly large following that seems to have gathered around it, I am glad to announce that, as the epilogue may suggest, there, 100%, WILL BE a sequel to Cold Steel, ideas for which have been circulating for ages.

I have a couple special shout-outs to make to some very helpful folks, without whom I doubt this story would have gone very far.

CaptainAshe179: You were a huge help in the early stages of this story, reviewing a lot of chapters before I released them to the public. I also have to thank you for the amazing character that Nicole is; she is yours after all, and I'm glad I did her justice. Feel free to ask me for help on any projects of yours at any time.

Kristianthedane: Thank you for your help in correcting my mistakes I made translating English into German...I don't want to be someone that is trying to say one thing but ends up saying the exact opposite.

Besides them, all of my reviewers, especially the constant ones who would stay with me through each month-long gap between chapters. The follows and favourites that everyone gave me were always an inspiration and would push me to get back working on the next chapter when I was having a bout of writer's block or just plain laziness.

So, about that sequel: I plan to take a few weeks off to rest my fingers and get ready to graduate from high school, but you won't have to wait long. In the interim, I'll have to draft a summary for it and figure out how exactly I want it to go. Until then, keep an eye on my profile page, where you can usually find the most recent information regarding any of my works.

Until next time folks! I hope you enjoyed this first fanfic of my first series, and I hope you stick around to see more! Until then mates! This is KonigstigerAce334 signing off.