AAR AAR [HLL] - Campaign Battle of Foy (#1) Battle of Foy Pt.1

[Rhodes.R]

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

Name of Combat Mission: Operation Battle of Foy Pt.1
Campaign of Combat Mission: Campaign Battle of Foy
Number within campaign: 1/2
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server #1
Date of Combat Mission: 04FEB23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z

Mission Controller: Staff Sergeant Rhodes.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action: 59
First Lieutenant James.P
Second Lieutenant Stetchkov.A
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dalton.D
Sergeant First Class Zimm.L
Staff Sergeant Rhodes.R
Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
Sergeant Voci.P
Sergeant Thrawn.N
Sergeant Smith.V
Sergeant Robertson.S
Sergeant Canuck.J
Sergeant Berry.B
Sergeant Avery.D
Sergeant Adler.J
Corporal Reign.A
Corporal Konn.G
Corporal Jinto.H
Corporal Groves.W
Corporal Cooper.N
Corporal Bizutto.A
Corporal Ackelson.K
Specialist Webber.R
Specialist Warren.G
Specialist Wags.D
Specialist Silvis.C
Specialist Rousseau.A
Specialist Rivard.C
Specialist Owens.J
Specialist O'Culien.M
Specialist O'Connell.J
Specialist Maca.D
Specialist Litvin.D
Specialist Libbey.D
Specialist Lemon.D
Specialist Lashley.E
Specialist James.M
Specialist Helms.J
Specialist Hellious.T
Specialist Hampton.D
Specialist Finch.A
Specialist D'Amico.J
Specialist Cantrell.J
Specialist Burgin.J
Specialist Berkowski.C
Specialist Balazova.S
Specialist Angelos.G
Specialist Anderson.P
Specialist Albright.J
Specialist Baugher.N
Private First Class Winter.H
Private First Class Slagg.J
Private First Class Coutu.M
Private First Class Barile.A
Prviate Scarselli.T
Prviate Butch.D
Prviate Travis.W
Prviate Richman.A
Reservist Singhal.P
Reservist Henson.K

If your name is not listed above, contact Staff Sergeant Rhodes.R or any of the Mission Controllers

 

[Voci.P]

Element Callsign: Axies Flare
Element Leader: Voci.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Voci.P

Pros:

• Great team work
• good ground covering by team
• lots of marker on the maps
• Angelos.G best medic!
• I love the flare gun <3

Cons:

• N/A

 

[Robertson.S]

Element Callsign: Baker Allies
Element Leader: Sergeant Robertson.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Specialist Warren.G Specialist Libbey.D Private Travis.W Specialist Rousseau.A

Pros:

• Great comms
• Great gunfights
• The squad flexed to every job as needed

Cons:

• N/A

 

[Adler.J]

Element Callsign: Allied Commander
Element Leader: Sergeant Adler.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Sergeant Adler.J

Pros:

• Incredible and intense fight, playing over every street and house back and forth
• Great team, communication, and teamwork
• Great use of AT guns and anti-tank tactics
• Good flexibility
• Well defended
• Enemy put up a ferocious fight and tanks+MGs were a constant headache

Cons:

• Maybe the garrison area for Foy was too large and should have been limitted to 2x3 grids instead of 3x3

 

[Zimm.L]

Element Callsign: Allies PL Comm 1
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Zimm.L
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Sergeant First Class Zimm.L

Pros:

• Great team work
• good ground covering by team
• lots of marker on the maps
• Great PL comms

Cons:

• Tank that took out the garrisons in Foy

 

[Berry.B]

Element Callsign: Echo
Element Leader: SGT.Berry.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Wags.D
SGT.Avery.D
SPC.O'Connell.J
CPL.Groves.W
SPC.DAmico.J

Pros:

• So much fun at the start with all the artilary going nuts

Cons:

• accidently had my guy with a satchel kill the entire german army

 

[Thrawn.N]

Element Callsign: Thrawn's Tank
Element Leader: SGT.Thrawn.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SGT.Thrawn.N
CPL.Ackelson.K
CPL.Jinto.H

Pros:

• Communication was good, call outs were good marks were most times accurate
• Immersive Operation the opening sequence was pure historical porn
• Armor Crew internal and with other crews excellent
• Armor to Infantry comms were superb
• Enemy team played extremely well with what little assets they had to use.
• Excellent positioning of enemy AT guns and placing infantry
• Good placing of Garrisons, really had to make us look for em

Cons:

• Satchels and AT guns hurt tanks.

 

[Rhodes.R]

Element Callsign: George Axis
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Rhodes.R

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Rhodes.R
Corporal Konn.G
Corporal Cooper.N
Specialist Lemon.D
Specailsit Litvin.D
Private First Class Winter.H


Solids:

• It was a blast
• The defenders were super solid, hard to beat the best!
• the Jaegers squad did great on backline offense
• Great platoon leading from Stetchkov.A
• OP concept ran within expectations, a few tweaks and it'll be even better
• Lemon.D rocked the MG, stacking bodies.
• Winter.H and Konn.G were satchel badasses, couldn't have done it without them
• Litvin.D was absolutely essential on support and medic. His revives kept Winter and Lemon up and running!
• Cooper.N was super adaptable, and played a mean AR and frag combo. Total badass.

Improvements:

• We should probably have used more half-tracks.
• More directions for the assaults.
• If I ever have to run this operation again, I'm going to restrict "Town of Foy" to the 3-4 grid.

 

[Webber.R]

Element Callsign: Allies/101st - Foxtrot
Element Leader: Specialist Webber.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Corporal Reign.A, Specialist Hampton.D, Private First Class Barile.R

Pros:

• Excellent Operation, absolutely love the concept of historical battles with differing balances based on the battle. The persistent keyword is also clever and I hope to see it used for more in the future.
• Made the best of no armor support with numerous AT guns to keep tanks on their toes.
• Great Platoon level communication and tactics, we were able to effectively move our three squads from location to location to repel any advance made against us.

Cons:

• Please please please please don't place Manpower nodes at spawn. We were trying to spread the word in command chat, but when we're allowed time to build defenses for a prolonged period, it's crucial that we keep all 3 along the frontline to allow Supports faster resupply time. Our squad was unable to get one up at Cobru Factory and it hampered our ability to effectively get our garrison, AT guns, and barbed wire up.

 

[James.P]

Element Callsign: Allies PL Comm 2
Element Leader: First Lieutenant James.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: First Lieutenant James.P

Pros:

• Great work defending the north east garrison!
• Great team work!

Cons:

• Had some comm issues

 

[Stetchkov.A]

Element Callsign: Axis PL - Baker
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Stetchkov.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: N/A

Pros:

• Very well made OPORD and impressive balancing of assets.
• Operation kicked off on time and ended on time with efficient debrief.
• Good concise communication with my SLs and my Commander which made juggling the multiple forms of communication easier.
• All of the Axis soldiers fought well and with good sportsmanship, even though it became increasingly difficult near the back half to make progress, I did not see or hear any complaints nor frustration.
• Impressive start to the offensive with coordinated artillery barrage that allowed for a cinematic experience of everyone rushing into battle with "rounds complete" being called right as infantry made initial contact, I don't believe any FF occurred at any point from IDF.
• Panzer SLs communicated effectively and were always willing to adjust as needed. Special shoutout to Smith.V for this.
• This operation kept me humble being my first time PLing for HLL let alone in an official setting, everyone was patient but I was definitely out of my comfort zone initially and once I got the groove I felt tested while working on ideas to overcome the defenders.

Cons:

• Not entirely a con as it could be circumstantial, but I would agree with the other comments regarding reducing the size of defense zone of Foy. Having to search and find 5 garrisons within the large AO while also fighting every inch of the way was a very tall order. While we got 3 of them, it was definitely a punch to morale hearing there were two left to find with only ~20 minutes left. Potentially a non-issue if both sides aren't as well balanced with skilled troopers as they were for this op but no one likes a steamroll.

 

[Anderson.P]

Element Callsign: Axis Dog Squad
Element Leader: SPC.Anderson.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: SPC.Owens.J, AR.Singhal.P, SPC.Angelos.G

Pros:

• Excellent team work and communication from all command
• Employment of different methods of attack
• Utilized assets available throughout

Cons

• Squad leads (Or at least myself) could have used a bit more time with leadership to go over the OPORD as some of it was not directly told and we only found out as we were in game. Comms between local, command, and squad would drown one another out

 

[Smith.V]

Element Callsign: Widowmaker (ARMOR)
Element Leader: SGT.Smith.V
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SGT.Smith.V
PFC.Coutu.M
CPL.Groves.W

Pros:

• While serving as artillery during the beginning of the battle:
  • Excellent CFF (Call{s} for Fire)
  • Fire missions were instrumental to early success.
• While serving as armor:
  • Coordination between tanks was generally solid.
  • Minimal losses given the circumstances.
  • Intercrew communication was superb.
  • Armored assets successfully eliminated two garrisons.
  • Infantry assistance was excellent.

Cons

• Coordinated assaults wherein armored assets would pe poignantly utilized to support infantry assault would have been useful.
• Infantry relay of positions of high enemy presence was inconsistent.
• Armor was unable to breach Foy proper due to the large anti-tank presence.

 

[Balazova.S]

Element Callsign: Sledgehammer - Axis Tank Squad
Element Leader: Specialist Balazova.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Balazova.S
Private Scarselli.T
Specialist Berkowski.C

Pros:

• Crew diligently followed orders, maintained excellent comms, and fulfilled their roles expertly
• Tank combat against AT guns was satisfying overall
• Tank supporting infantry movement was synergistic and rewarding
• Realistic inspiration for the operation was immersive and exciting
• Campaign-long limits on tanks encouraged conservative gameplay

Cons:

• Infantry and tank support was sometimes disconnected and tanks were unable to effectively support infantry squads

 

[Hermes.S]

Element Callsign: Allied - Dog Squad
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Burgin.J
Private First Class Slagg.J

Pros:

• Extremely manuevable squad
• Great work flipping between AT/Supplies/Engy to reinforce the south.
• 7 total AT guns by this squad. GET SOME.
• Manpower node ON POINT.
• outstanding flexibility
• Discipline ^^^
• So proud of my squad.

Cons:

• The start was unnecessarily long. If you're SL/Support, you do NOT drive the truck. The truck, in the beginning, has one sole purpose. Barrel in, hard, fast, no stopping. If you're an SL, then YOU can jump out.
• We lost an easy 1min-1.5mins bc of the above.
• Manpower nodes should be on point. The 2-minute resupply is HUGE when trucks/CMDR is not feasible.
• LISTEN TO COMMAND COMMS ^ the above was literally mentioned 3-5x prior.
• Im sad we lost the last garrison to tank fire.

 

[Xinos.T]

LOCKED

Assigned Angelos.G for processing

 

[Angelos.G]

S1 Operations Processed

S1 Note

Private Richman.A did not receive credit due to 7CAV-DR-014