AAR ARMA 3 | Warfare Wednesday | Warfare Wednesday 191

[Mitchell.B]

Name of Combat Mission: Warfare Wednesday 191
Number Within Campaign: 5/5
Game: ARMA 3
Server Hosted on: ARMA 3 Tactical Realism
Date of Combat Mission: 31MAY23
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2200z
Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Mission Controllers:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
Private First Class Mitchell.B
Specialist Turn.J

Number of Attendees: 53
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major Burton.P
Major Dread.M
Major Ronen.R
First Lieutenant Mackey.A
Second Lieutenant Highman.J
Second Lieutenant Sam.T
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Berg.J
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Sparrow.P
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R
Warrant Officer 1 Dujakovic.R
Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C
Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N
Warrant Officer 1 Villmarsson.L
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Staff Sergeant Fields.Q
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Sergeant Guerra.J
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Santoyo.T
Sergeant Westcott.R
Corporal Armitage.T
Corporal Bethea.A
Corporal Crowley.T
Corporal DAmico.D
Corporal Kent.R
Corporal Masnec.G
Corporal Robbi.J
Corporal Tucker.C
Corporal Velasquez.J
Corporal Zander.D
Specialist Cole.T
Specialist Dixon.E
Specialist Krupa.W
Specialist Muth.S
Specialist Lewis.A
Specialist Searle.I
Specialist Turn.J
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Arnesen.B
Private First Class Mitchell.B
Private First Class Perea.A
Private Juarez.RA
Private Milam.B
Private Smith.W
Private Woods.K

Non 7Cav Personnel:
(1776) SeppukuKing
CCWO J. Swan
DOTOLO.M
Dr. Wierd
PFC. chikin
SPC.Kaycee

Mission Controller Actionable Improvements for the Operation:
1. Lots of general learning about how the CAV operates on the ground and in the air
2. Frame rate management, frame rate management, FRAME RATE MANAGEMENT
3. Balancing detail, ambiance, and FRAME RATE MANAGEMENT
4: what to prebuild and what to do on the fly

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[Sam.T]

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

Element Callsign: VIKING-5
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Sam.T

Pros:

• Good comms with the dodgy radio situation (lots of radios to listen in on).
• Convoy Net was handled well (again, lots of radios to listen in on tonight).
• MASCAS events were handled well by Atlas.

Conns:

• Instances of Atlas floating on top of squads without being called in an AO where we had already taken a MASCAS from an IDF strike.
• Overall reaction to IDF felt sluggish or non-existent.
• At least one instance of a trooper wandering alone without a battle buddy. Likely caused by the overflow and late-join situation, but still a fairly fundamental issue.

 

[Whitehead.B]

Element Callsign: Viking-4
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Staff Sergeant Whitehead.B
Corporal Armitage.T
Specialist Searle.I
Specialist Krupa.W
Sergeant First Class Abate.L
Corporal Zander.D
Sergeant Phillips.B
Corporal Robbi.J
Private Smith.W

Pub players
Dotolo
Swan

Pro:

• Good siera crew pretty much autonomous on their positions
• Good amount of contacts at AOI 3 and QRF
• Good manouvering
• Good infantry cover
• Good atlas / CLS work triaging casulties
• Good use of drone
• Great fireteam leads
• Good to get CQB action as V-4

Con:

• Need to improve SR contact reports
• Need to spread contact between squads over the entire mission AOI 2 was entirely V-1 AOI 1&3 was entirley V-4 with V-1 only clearing buildings
• Dispropotionate unmanned vehicles to Crew number on the AI in AOI1
• SBF made mutual support hard
• Should have focused more on initial FOB causing a V-1 Mass cas
• Push through to map earlier to mark it up it has no impact on any briefing and would have saved 12 minutes from the 25 min step of time

 

[Spit.K]

Element Callsign: Buffalo-3
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Spitnale.K

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Dread.M

Pro:

• Good Comms within all aviation elements
• Constant work to do, always appreciated

Con:

• Frames did drop near the end making it difficult to land
• Acre issues
• Both issues above are hard to avoid, overall great experience.

 

[Dixon.E]

Element Callsign: ATLAS-1
Element Leader: Specialist Dixon.E

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Dixon.E
Corporal Masnec.G
Corporal Velasques.J
Staff Sergeant Field.Q

Public players:
Tex
Dr.Wierd

Pros:

• Plenty of casualties, lots to do.
• Fantastic triage from Viking-4.
• good communication and good teamwork in the squad.

Cons:

• Issues with radios.
• Security element, pretty pointless to be stuck on Atlas.
• Triage before atlas arrive and handoff to medics.
• Some minor issues with security.

 

[Thumper.N]

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

Element Callsign: Raider-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Thumper.N

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Berg.J

Pros:

• Good overall mission
• Good mission pace

Cons:

• N/A

 

[Bethea.A]

Element Callsign: Viking-1
Element Leader: Corporal Bethea.A

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal DAmico.D
Corporal Tucker.C
Sergeant Westcott.R
Sergeant Narramoor.A
Major Ronen.R
Specialist Cole.T
Private Woods.K
Corporal Kent.R
Specialist Xinos.T
Private First Class Perea.A
Sergeant Guerra.J
Private First Class Arnesen.B
Private Juarez.RA

Pros:

• Squad level comms were excellent and clean despite high player count.
• Good camaraderie.
• Interesting mission concept with the side objective.
• We especially liked the proximity of the 3 objectives and thought they were well done. They were within walking distance but positioned so as to not have the players engaged by 3 AOIs simultaneously.

Cons:

• Technical issues:
  • Weird bug with Stryker firing constantly for Narramoor.
  • Abnormal number of folks running around without uniforms.
  • Players going invisible for other players.
• No overflow squad. Recommend having someone step up and take the SL for overflow squad and just work with it as players fill in to prevent unrealistic squad sizes.
• Frame rates low. Suspected cause was ZEI, Rain, & # of CAS targets.
• IDF asset got loose from Zeus and killed several members of Viking-1 Bravo right at the start of the Op. Threw off pacing and immersion.
• Requested to carry demo which did not get used. Very unfortunate with recent enforced restrictions on kits.

 

[Summerfield.P]

Element Callsign: Buffalo-2
Element Leader: First Sergeant Summerfield.P

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Summerfield.P
Specialist Muth.S
Sergeant Santoyo.T

Pro:

• Comms on the aviation side were good
• Great communication with 5
• Constant tasking kept us very and was very appreciated

Con:

• Frames started dropping towards the end which made flying for some pilots almost impossible due to less than 7 FPS
• Acre issues, although it wasn't super noticeable to me
• Sling loading is still buggy and the helicopter randomly lurches, flips, and rotates instantly in whichever way and manner it sees fit

 

[Hamm.C]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
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Element Callsign: BUFFALO-1
Element Leader: Warrant Officer 1 Hamm.C "Hooker"

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Highman.J
Warrant Officer 1 Bloggins.R

Pros:

• Excellent mission concept.
• Planning/briefing great. Excellent OPORD and well articulated in Leadership Briefing. Love those details!
• Excellent crew work from Rotary personnel.
• Excellent comms management/relays despite unfortunate very problematic ACRE issues.
• Excellent flying from Summerfield.P and Spitnale.K despite extreme frame rate loss, down in to the single digits (6-8 FPS) for a substantial length of time. Flying helicopters in AFM is challenging anyway, but FPS drops like this makes it 10 times harder...so great job boys.
• I definitely appreciate the side mission to set up FOB Jacob. I know that
• Due to a few ridiculous things/unfortunate events/Arma being ARMA, there was some comedy value, so we definitely got some laughs.

Cons:

• FRAMES! At some point, about halfway through the OP, frames went straight to hell. This results in extreme difficulty and frustration, especially when flying helicopters, which require precise and fluid and sometimes tiny control inputs to do things safely. I'm guessing this FPS collapse was likely due to some of the weather/environmental elements used, but I could be wrong since we've used them before. Somebody smarter than me should figure this out so we can avoid it, to the extent possible, going forward.
• ACRE issues. I don't usually experience any ACRE issues outside of the training servers, but tonight was an exception. I wonder if we just need to do the radio reset thing at the start or if we need ACRE boxes placed so everybody can start with fresh radios. I don't know but getting that figured out and fixed would be awesome.
• Sling loading was a good idea in concept, but it just doesn't work in AFM with Blackhawk. What happens is a totally random, in-flight, very violent, lurch to the left or right, banking and flipping the helicopter inverted in less than a second. Unless miracles happens (like they did tonight) the sling ropes strike the main rotor, destroying it and the bird and everybody dies. Luckily, when this "lurch" happened to me, I was kind-of expecting it, so I was able to cut the ropes quick enough to avoid catastrophe. I then RTB and switched from AFM to SFM and tried again, but for whatever reason, the ropes would connect to the pods but would break away after we tried to lift. These issues effectively caused us to have to abandon the FOP Jacob objective of this OP. As much as I hate the current Chinook model we have in this game, we need to use it if we are going to sling since we know at least it is reliably capable of doing that without the crazy random lurches. After sling loading whatever with Chinook, we can then switch over to Blackhawks or alternate as necessary.
  
  *NOTE that at all times we were working on the FOB Jacob/slingload/side part of the OP, we had BUFFALO-3 detached and assisting with infantry needs/requests and would have certainly deviated to assist 7Cav our troopers if/when requested.

 

[Armitage.T]

Awaiting master list from Mitchell.B before I can process.

 

[Mitchell.B]

Armitage.T Apologies, holding for Turn.J . Should be up shortly

 

[Armitage.T]

LOCKED

Assigned to Armitage.T for processing

 

[Armitage.T]

S1 Operations Updated