AAR [HLL PC] EXFOR Operation Iron Forge

[Roderick.S]

Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: EXFOR Iron Forge
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 01AUG2026
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2145Z
Mission OICs: Second Lieutenant Roderick.S
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Roderick.S
CRCON STATS​

Number of Attendees: 23 + 2 guests
First Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Second Lieutenant Roderick.S
Second Lieutenant Sibley.K
Staff Sergeant Koalafied.C
Corporal Allen.R
Corporal Banfield.H
Corporal Berkowski.C
Corporal Fox.F
Corporal Jinto.H
Corporal Kenton.W
Corporal Mustard.C
Corporal Vonk.K
Specialist Brown.LG
Specialist Eri.C
Specialist Garner.P
Specialist Gruen.G
Specialist Kuhlmann.B
Private First Class Burgess.S
Private First Class Nguy.B
Private First Class Stewart.C
Private First Class West.T
Private Smith.ER
Private Walls.O

Guests:
SGT.Darkenedsheeps
SGT.CRAYONEATER

 

[Roderick.S]

Element Callsign:
Element Leader:
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:


Pros:

Cons:

 

[Banfield.H]

Element Callsign: Allies Tank 3 "Heresy's Voice"
Element Leader: Corporal Banfield.H
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Jinto.H
Private Walls.O

Pros:

• W key
• Great tank comms
• 10/10 please run again!!!!!

Cons:

• RUSSIAN BIAS

 

[Eri.C]

Element Callsign: Axis Tank 4 - Sotelo's Angels
Element Leader: Specialist Eri.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Allen.R
Specialist Brown.LG


Pros:

• Lots of fun!
• Would do again!

Cons:

• Russian too OP and maybe a different map

 

[Sibley.K]

Element Callsign: Lead Tank Allies - Blood Spire
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sibley.K
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Sibley.K
Private Nguy.B
Corporal Fox.F


Pros:

• Fun new concept
• Really enjoy bringing in 5ID guys and building a relationship with the community
• We fielded a lot of 7cav Tankers!
• Lots of crews able to practice and flex their skills

Cons:

• Sadly the other team had a low turnout. BUT they had a lot of fun and want to do it again
• Column formations bad

 

[West.T]

Element Callsign: Axis tank 3
Element Leader:
Private First Class West.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Vonk.K
Corporal Kenton.W
Pros:

• Great communication
• Good input from crew members
• AO was well defined and properly sized

Cons:

• Soviet tanks are way too easy to ric off of, shouldn't run this on Russian maps

 

[Sotelo.R]

Element Callsign: Team 2 Lead TC - "Cheap and Easy"
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Sotelo.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Corporal Berkowski.C
Specialist Gruen.G

Pros:

• Great back-and-forth between the teams, good competition
• Team 2 coordinated effectively in support of each other
• Shoutout to Rod and Eri.C for making this happen even with all of the curveballs they were thrown

Cons:

• Kharkov is still an unbalanced map for competitive enviornments