AAR [HLL] - D-Day Opération Bande de Frères - 05JUN22 @0100Z

[Beat.S]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Name of Combat Mission: Opération Bande de Frères
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Event
Date of Combat Mission: 05JUN22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0100Z

Mission OIC: Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R & Specialist Carrington.D
Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R

Number of Attendees: 64
Major General Jarvis.A
Captain Rob.Y
First Lieutenant Dread.M
First Lieutenant Moore-Allen.D
First Lieutenant Mulholland.J
First Lieutenant Mazinski.H
First Lieutenant Bunnell.M
Second Lieutenant Smithson.R
Second Lieutenant Beat.S
Sergeant Major West.B
Sergeant First Class Huber.B
Sergeant First Class Strider.R
Staff Sergeant Gibbs.B
Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R
Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
Sergeant Butcher.B
Sergeant Zimm.L
Corporal Novak.I
Corporal Reign.A
Corporal Longmen.D
Corporal Whitehead.B
Corporal Ryon.C
Corporal Cameron.J
Corporal Voci.P
Corporal Ackelson.K
Corporal Voci.P
Corporal Varnado.J
Corporal Marinelli.M
Specialist Yaeger.C
Specialist Holiday.T
Specialist Phillips.B
Specialist Bizutto.A
Specialist Smith.V
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Thrawn.N
Specialist Lee.R
Specialist Robertson.S
Specialist Choi.S
Specialist Abejon.S
Specialist Litvin.D
PFC.Cooper.N
Private First Class Wayne.B
Private First Class OConnell.H
Private First Class Griffin.B
Private First Class Groves.A
Private First Class Ford.W
Private First Class Wags.D
Private First Class Whalen.B
Private First Class Kleisner.R
Private Lyon.D
Private Helms.J
Private Zimm.E
Private Madoc.M
Private Clendenning.M

 

[Beat.S]

Element Callsign: Axis Commander
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Beat.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:



Pros:

• Perfection
• SL comms were faultless
• Solid fight

Cons:

None

 

[Rob.Y]

Element Callsign: Leading Gen.Jarvis to Greatness
Element Leader: Captain Rob.Y

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Captain Rob.Y
Major General Jarvis.A
Sergeant Major West.B
Private First Class Whalen.B

Pros:

• Highest combat effectiveness on the team
• Really great squad work
• Enjoyed the op a ton!

Cons:

• Really no comms well balanced and mission controller adjusted to keep it moving for both teams

 

[Butcher.B]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Allied Tank Crew
Element Leader: SGT.Butcher.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SGT.Butcher.B
CPL.Ackelson.K
SPC.Lee.R


Pros:

• Good setup
• Good comms between tanks
• Great job battling German infantry and tanks

Cons:

• AO maybe a little constrictive
• Command comms started out well but didn't do well long term

 

[Mazinski.H]

Element Callsign: Axis Recon
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Mazinski.H

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Bunnell.M

Pros:
Good coordination inside the team
We killed a lot of people

Cons:
Poor initial placement

 

[Voci.P]

Element Callsign: Axis Commander
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Beat.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Cameron.J


Pros:

• lots of people

Cons:

• too one sided
• No Flank for recon

 

[Robertson.S]

Element Callsign: Leading Gen.Jarvis to Greatness
Element Leader: Specialist Robertson.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Warren.G
Private Madoc.M
Private Lyon.D
Specialist Campbell.B
Specialist Yaeger.C

Pros: Had fun, worked well together, great defense, great comms and flexibility
Cons: Over extended a bit in the second/third phase causing a gap in the line

 

[Strider.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Axis Tank Commander
Element Leader: SFC.Strider.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SFC.Strider.R
SFC Sven.S
SPC Choi.S



Pros:

• Interesting Op loved the idea of it (even with some changes made during)
• Good communication
• FORT HUBER WILL LAST FOREVER!!!!!
• Awesome to see so many show up again!
• Also great use of armor and infantry everyone felt like they had their spotlight to do what they do

Cons:

• Changes during OPS needs to stop on the fly
• forcing an op into another phase just 'becuase' when the phase is optional isn't fun either

 

[Moore-Allen.D]

Element Callsign: Able squad - Allies
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Moore-Allen.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Gibbs.B
Corporal Marinelli.M
Specialist Bizutto.A
Private First Class Kleisner.R

Pros:

• Some troopers had fun with the operation.
• Adapting the OPROD in recognition of changes in combat positions.

Cons:

• Coordination between squads.
• Boundaries were one-sided and allowed for tanks and infantry on the enemy team to engage without being maneuver on.
• "Slog" to push against superior armor and infantry assets.

 

[Dread.M]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Name of Combat Mission: Opération Bande de Frères
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Event Server
Date of Combat Mission: 05JUN22
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0100Z

Element Callsign: Allies Commander
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Dread.M

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Dread.M

PROS:

• Great turn out
• Awesome job balancing the fight as the fight progressed
• Good coordination between fire teams/squads until the end

CONS:

• Organization fell off towards the end during the push towards Hugo's Farm while trying to kill the last Tiger

 

[Zimm.L]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign:
Element Leader: Sergeant Zimm.L

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Zimm.L
Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
Corporal Reign.A
Corporal Longmen.D
Private Zimm.E

Pros:

• we won
• easy to understand op board

Cons:

• Team disorganized
• long set up and briefing
• good comms at beginning then got worst as went
• Tank we were supposed to support left us behind
• Tiger on the US AO line was not necessarily fair
• Didn't really have fun
• All the advantages went to the Germans(defenders) and Allies didn't really have any

 

[Sotelo.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Axis Lead Tank Commander
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Sotelo.R
Specialist Smith.V


Pros:

• Good comms and decent coordination between inf. and armor.
• German infantry MVP
• Tactics were tested and shined

Cons:

• Tigers still OP if no 76's,
• Be careful "cheese" tactics

 

[Rhodes.R]

Element Callsign: How Squad (Axis)
Element Leader: Sergeant Rhodes.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Rhodes.R
Corporal Ryon.C
Corporal Whitehead.B
Private Mueller.H
Private First Class Wags.D
Specialist Peters.N

Solids:

• Not having to listen to command comms constantly was a fantastic breath of fresh air
• Huber did well balancing between commanding his squad and directing mine.
• How Squad held our ground and absolutely destroyed any enemies who came at us.
• the defense was extraordinarily well coordinated and commanded
• Great in-squad comms
• shoutout to CPL.Ryon and PFC Wags for being absolute badass on the flanks.
• the outpost only very rarely went down
• The objectives for this (destroy 2 tanks) were novel and interesting. I'd like to see more of that.

Improvements:

• the Tank being where it was is a bit cheesy. Glad it got sorted out though. Maybe next time open up a bit more of the map to allow for flanking attacks in similar situations.
• I could use work on my logic for constructing defenses, I'm not a natural engineer it seems
• Giving more resources to the allies probably would have been ideal. Access to the '76 from the start probably would have made a difference.

 

[Thrawn.N]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Juliet Squad (Allied)
Element Leader: Specialist.Thrawn.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist.Thrawn.N
Specialist.Griffin.B
Private First Class Wayne.B

Pros:

• Good comms and callouts in beginning to mid stage.
• Enjoyed a challenge from Germans in stoic defense in third phase
• Interesting placement of Fort Huber!

Cons:

Nothing but personal cons for my command ability.

 

[Smithson.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Baker Squad (Allies)
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Smithson.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
2LT.Smithson.R
Private Helms.J
Private First Class Ford.W
Specialist Jones.F
Sergeant DAmico.J
Specialist OBrien.T

Pros:

• Great Commander - took us to win
• Squad worked well
• Challenging mission made it fun

Cons:

• none from squad. (we should have made more use of smokes)

 

[Huber.B]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT​

Element Callsign: Axis Fox
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Huber.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Dalton.D
Sergeant Babcock.R
Specialist Solo.H
Specialist Abejon.S
Specialist Northway.C

Pros
We kicked ass
Fort Huber stood till the end

Cons
Had to give up our Tiger B/c we were doing to well
Had comms break near the end

 

[Burlas.J]

LOCKED

 

[Burlas.J]

Assigned: Scotts.R for processing

 

[Scotts.R]

S1/ OPERATION PROCESSED