AAR AAR Operation Midnight Pursuit 03MAR2024

[Lee.N]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Operation Midnight Pursuit
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 03MAR2024
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0030z​

Mission OIC: Corporal Lee.N
Mission Controller: Corporal Lee.N
Number of Attendees: 50
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:

Captain Strider.R
First Lieutenant Smith.V
Second Lieutenant Argentini.E
Sergeant Major West.B
Sergeant Rasmus.M
Sergeant Konn.G
Sergeant Bizutto.A
Sergeant Zulu.P
Sergeant Sotelo.R
Sergeant Rhodes.R
Corporal Lee.N
Corporal Button.J
Corporal Berkowski.C
Corporal Moreau.M
Corporal Ackelson.K
Corporal Richmond.DA
Corporal White.C
Corporal Massey.A
Corporal OCulien.M
Corporal Noriega.D
Specialist Hazen.D
Specialist Firmin.D
Specialist Baldrick.D
Specialist Wisniewski.A
Specialist Bean. P
Specialist Fields.M
Specialist Woody.W
Specialist Leifried.R
Specialist Simonis.T
Specialist Valente.M
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Riley.D
Specialist.Beauchamp.R
Specialist Winter.A
Specialist Baldwin.C
Specialist Bas.D
Private First Class Macpherson.C
Private First Class Etoh.I
Private First Class Trim.D
Private First Class Suplee.B
Private First Class Bazzle.J
Private First Class Fisher.R
Private Creek.R
Private Johnson.G
Private Laui.M
Private Mawzi.B
Private Bogg.D
Private Endo.B
Recruit Fowler.D
Recruit Kolanko.T

 

[Lee.N]

Element CallSign: Axis Spectator/Scorekeeper
Element Leader: Corporal Lee.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Feedback from the masses, not myself or team specific:
Pros:

• Nice pick of map and city landscape, great challenge for troopers
• "Fantastic operation and fantastic teams"
• From the tankers: felt fast pace even when sitting still
• Not many cons, overall well received and well liked for the change of pace and alternative rule set than normal

Cons:

• Let infantry have access to artillery (recon only, was annoying since it couldn't be dealt with)
• Some said map choice was a downfall due to tanks on Carentan already being difficult
• No AT guns built? Very surprised and I believe several opportunities were lost here

 

[Button.J]

Tank Callsign: Swamp Thing
Element Leader: Corporal Button.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Tank:
Corporal Berkowski.C
Sergeant Konn.G

Pros:

• Very fun, felt fast paced even when pulling defense.
• Roving AT infantry made it high risk.

Cons:

• Honestly nothing. Great Op.

 

[Bizutto.A]

Element CallSign: Axis Baker Squad
Element Leader: SGT.Bizutto.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Firmin.D
Specialist Baldrick.D

Pros:

• Great squad comms
• perfect attentiveness to orders in squad
• Great map pings by all squads
• Lots of recon tanks exploding
• Fun concept for an Op. Keep it up!

Cons:

• Tactics between squads seemed a little lacking
• Garry defense

 

[West.B]

Element Callsign: Axis "India" SL
Element Leader: Sergeant Major West.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Private First Class Macpherson.C
Specialist Wisniewski.A

Pros:

• Great 3 man tank hunter squad
• 4 Recon tanks destroyed
• Performed well on, both attack and defense

Cons:

• Its hard to see when the sun goes down.

 

[LaRoche.P]

Element CallSign: Allies Charlie Tankers
Element Leader: SPC.Laroche.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PFC.Etoh.I
CPL.Mpreau.M

Pros:

• Excellent and fun concept.
• Tank crews even tough some didn't have lots of experience worked well together.
• Infantry-tankers communication on point.

Cons:

• Killing the arty might have been a good idea but overall it wasn'T THAT bad

 

[Ackelson.K]

Element CallSign: Axis TC
Element Leader: Corporal Ackelson.K
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Captain Strider.R Private Creek.R
Interesting concept for an operation and it was well structured. Good crew comms and good command comms. Crew enjoyed the match

 

[Bean.P]

Axis Delta Squad
Element Leader: SPC. Bean. P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PVT.Johnson.G
SPC.Fields.M
PFC.Trim.D


Pros:

• Very fun, different, and unique Operation
• Forced communication between all members.
• Op Forced infantry to really work together

Cons:

• Honestly nothing.....

 

[Woody.W]

Element CallSign: Axis Spectator/Scorekeeper
Element Leader: Specialist Woody.W
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Zulu.P
Pros:
-good coms
-had fun destroying Garry's
-good arty on axis side

Cons:
-restricted ao for recon was interesting
-axis Garry's were in very similar locations for most the game

 

[Leifried.R]

Element CallSign: Axis Spectator/Scorekeeper
Element Leader: Specialist Leifried.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Richmond.DA
Specialist Simonis.T

Pros:

• Great concept
• Excellent communications and scouting
• Fast Paced

Cons:

• Vehicle Limits
• Driving ( I'm going to lose it if I see another vehicle get stuck on a crossable obstacle / creek )
• Incosistent shell hits from Recon ??
  • Some interesting results from shots ( with AP ) that are either differing from what we currently know due to an unspoken change in armor dynamics OR we're doing something wrong

 

[White.C]

Element CallSign: Allies Able Squad
Element Leader: Corporal White.C

7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Valente.M
Private First Class Suplee.B
Recruit Fowler.D

Pros:

• Great choice of AO restriction
• Very accurate pings and communication in the command chat
• Extremely fun and interesting concept involving a point system and tank hunting

Cons:

• Allies needed more garry placement

 

[Argentini.E]

Element CallSign: Axis Alpha Recon
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Argentini.E
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Private Laui.M

Pros: Good concept
Good communications
Worked well with tanks.


Cons: Died alot!

 

[James.M]

Element CallSign: Axis Commander
Element Leader: First Lieutenant James.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant James.M

Pros:
• Innovative Operation
• Great Communications
• Fun, creates a non-traditional way of interpreting battle conditions
• Quality intel dissemenated to all Units in real time

Cons:
• Map Selection/Night could be tweaked
• limited infantry numbers creates Operational challenges

 

[Blade.B]

Element CallSign: Axis Arty
Element Leader: Spc.Blade.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Spc.Blade.B

PROS: I was given instructions where to hit. Other SL's did decent on call outs(marks on map). I enjoyed that I wasn't harassed by the recon.

CONS: Would have been nicer if more people showed up. Maybe spread the word more about any kind of operation, I understand people have other things to do.

Infantry kills: 67 (Spc.Hazen: 8)
Commander K's: 8
Officer K's: 17

 

[Sotelo.R]

Element CallSign: Axis Tank - "Cheap and Easy"
Element Leader: Sergeant Sotelo.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Sotelo.R
Corporal Massey.A
Private Mawzi.B

Pros

• Really cool experimental op
• Infantry went off with taking down recon tanks
• Armor had some decent coordination, good adjustment to game plans when needed

Cons

• Map could've been a better choice, but did not detract from the op's overall concept, night mode not the issue
• HE was having weird mechanic functions for the Puma, not sure what was going on

 

[Rhodes.R]

Element Call Sign: Item Squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Rhodes.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Rhodes.R
Specialist Riley.D
Private Bogg.D
Recruit Kolanko.T

Pros

• Excellent trigger discipline and callouts from Kolanko
• Riley tied for killing the most Recon vehicles on our team
• Bogg was our personal Johnny on the spot and was able to do everything I needed before I even knew I was going to ask.
• Excellent operation concept and execution.
• Worked with fantastic SLs with a good sense of tactics and timing.

Improvements

• Artillery was a bit oppressive, a means of dealing with it would be nice.

 

[Bogg.D]

Element Call Sign: Item Squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Rhodes.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Rhodes.R
Specialist Riley.D
Private Bogg.D
Recruit Kolanko.T

Pros

• Our SL was very calm and fun to play with, I would like to play with him more !
• Riley was giving them hell
• Loved the way everyone in our squad knew what they were doing at all times (communication and stuff)
• Excellent operation concept and execution.
• RCT.Kolanko was really damn good with amazing trigger discipline

Improvements

• Ennemy artillery was annoyingly spot-on and hungry for our souls (great job SPC.Blade)

EDIT: realized that I am not supposed to do the report my bad.

 

[Rasmus.M]

Element CallSign: Allied Scorekeeper
Element Leader: Sergeant Rasmus.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Rasmus.M

Pros :

• Love innovation, keep coming with out of the boxes Operations
• Comms worked well for point system tracking
• Saw good tank spotting comms and markers

Cons :

• Maybe give more points for strongpoint keeping
• In future Operations, make it important that people communicate their tank kills through leadership in-game comms, it facilitate tracking

 

[Beauchamp.R]

Element CallSign: Allies Dog Squad
Element Leader: SPC.Beauchamp.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Winter.A
Private First Class Bazzle.J
Corporal OCulien.M


Pros:

• Great squad comms
• Great flexibility and adaptability
• Great calls outs and reacting to contact
• Identifying enemy tanks and working as a team to distract and eliminate enemy armor
• Challenging concept but loved the new idea

Cons:

• Night map was rough with fog
• Command comms hard to hear at times

 

[Hazen.D]

Element CallSign: Allied Commander
Element Leader: Specialist Hazen.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Hazen.D

Pros:
• Unique Operation
• Great Communications
• Unique Operation and win condition led to innovative leadership decisions

Cons:
• Recon squads should be allowed to move to engage artillery