AAR AAR Operation Combat Acharné - 13APR24

[Sotelo.R]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Operation Combat Acharné
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: MERC Server
Date of Combat Mission: 13APR24
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2330Z​

Mission OIC: First Lieutenant Anderson.P
Mission Controller: Sergeant Sotelo.R
Number of Attendees: 51
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
First Lieutenant Anderson.P
First Lieutenant James.M
First Lieutenant Smith.V
Second Lieutenant Argentini.E
Sergeant Major West.B
First Sergeant Balazova.S
First Sergeant Damico.J
Staff Sergeant Bizutto.A
Staff Sergeant Hellious.T
Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
Staff Sergeant Phillips.B
Sergeant Busch.J
Sergeant Cantrell.J
Sergeant Herber.R
Sergeant Sotelo.R
Corporal Button.J
Corporal Moreau.M
Corporal Noriega.D
Corporal OCulien.M
Corporal Richmond.DA
Corporal Travis.W
Corporal Warren.G
Corporal White.C
Specialist Ackerman.J
Specialist Bazzle.J
Specialist Blade.B
Specialist Beauchamp.R
Specialist Chhari.A
Specialist Curran.J
Specialist Felton.J
Specialist Fisher.R
Specialist LaRoche.P
Specialist Leifried.R
Specialist Quake.B
Specialist Remy.K
Specialist Rousseau.A
Specialist Valente.M
Specialist Winter.A
Specialist Wisniewski.A
Specialist Woody.W
Private First Class Donk.B
Private First Class Kona.B
Private First Class Laui.M
Private Maines.Z
Private Parton.D
Private Raid.R
Private Russell.T
Private Taylor.H

Corporal Smith.N - Retired
Second Lieutenant Bonder.L - Retired

Showed up but team was full, stayed for re:
Specialist Maca.D

 

[Hermes.S]

Element Callsign: Defensive Squad
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Major West.B
Specialist Wisniewski.A
Private Maines.Z

Pros:

• Despite a shorter amount of time to plan, the combined efforts of those who helped are never a loss.
• Nodes up without a hitch.
• Infantry on the ready line at go-live.
• Good coordination by infantry with node building and trucks.
• Solid attempt to put up a fight with little success.
• Humbling
• Great post-game chats all night.

Cons:

• Very challenging to defend the point. Despite having a second squad dedicated to defense, they were fast and overwhelming.
• If the garri wasn't being sniped, we were getting hit with extremely well-placed arty shots.
• Poor sportsmen like comments being made in their chat
• Poor taste in regards to some individual's comments regarding hotwash, "This was pathetic." "It sucked, it wasn't any fun."
• Poor attitudes by some individuals post-game.

 

[Cantrell.J]

Element Callsign: Flex Squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Cantrell.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• good Communications and good planning

Cons:

• couldn't stay alive and keep my Outpost up

 

[James.M]

Element Callsign: Southern Assault Airborne
Element Leader: First Lieutenant James.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Noriega.D
Specialist Chhari.A
Pros:

• Good to face a quality Opponent
• Good turnout for this Operation
• Planning overall was good
• We had some successes in their back lines and needed a little more time to disrupt the enemy
• Airborne had good communications in Discord

Cons:

• Execution of the overall plan was not good in certain aspects
• We lost in less than 25 minutes
• MERC was utilizing glitching and violating standards we set forth

 

[LaRoche.P]

Element Callsign: Northern Attack Infantry
Element Leader: Specialist Laroche.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Travis.W
Specialist Bazzle.J
Private First Class Donk.B
Pros:

• Lots of motivated SLs to create a good plan.
• Command chat was not clustered like the last times.
• Flanking was surprinsingly easy as their whole clan just blitzkrieg towards us.

Cons:

• Got super outgunned, they killed 3 or more of our infantry before we could even down one of them.
• Stomped, twice.
• Setting up just to spawn kill on OPs and garrisons without even trying to push them is unsportsmanship IMO.
• One of them was literaly trolling my squad in the 2nd round with a flamethrower, far enough to not destroy it but close enough for his flames to kill us right when we spawned... never destroyed it, I spawned somewhere else and switched my OPs location, after 5min right before I switched my OP, it was still there and hot.

 

[Argentini.E]

Element Callsign: Dog Recon Allies, Able Recon Axes
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Argentini.E
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Staff Sergeant Phillips.B

Pros:

• Good match start tactics with nodes on axis side.
• Good driving and getting Recon squads deep early.

Cons:

• Unable to keep up with axis assault on their flanks
• Enemy Recon tank owned the southern half of both maps at the start.

 

[Hellious.T]

Element Callsign Defensive element
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Hellious.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Beauchamp.R
Private First Class Kona.B
Private Taylor.H

Pros:

• Troop movement and asks were executed
• should attempt to steal their formulations of a dry run, can incorporate some of the extended envelopment movement into games rather than the crash movement.
• extending some of the elements out to smaller squads may work but utility may be lost in some regard, something to engage with

Cons:

• More prework may have helped, short notice
• For ally game the lack of a second truck left 12 men of the infantry north walking, fixed in the axis game
• generally felt as if playing with foliage is a no go any longer in these matches
• Some negative comments in hotwash will kill engagement with this comp match stuff, "this was pathetic" is not constructive nor relevant, everyone knew this was going to be a tough fight - the intent was to gauge where we fell in ability

 

[DAmico.J]

Element Callsign: Southern Assault Airborne
Element Leader: First Sergeant DAmico.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Corporal Moreau.M

Pros:

• It was a great learning opportunity. We now have a greater understanding of where our weaknesses lie and where to build from it.
• I understand the mistakes I made during the operation and will be prepared to plan for them in the future.

Cons:

• I failed to establish backup garrisons in a timely manner. This meant we were on the backfoot from the very beginning, and it only snowballed from there. Going forward, I will make sure the airborne defensive squads are getting the early game garrisons in place as their number one priority. Failing to have a contingency plan really cost us this game, and I take much of that responsibility. You can't play this game if you can't spawn properly and outflank your enemies. Wide garrisons are absolutely critical.
• I don't it was ever really clearly understood by our team how much in danger we were in during both matches. It was very clear the defense could not hold, but I never heard it called out properly. The second round had some improvement, but not enough to make much of a difference.
• The negativity is getting to be really irritating. People who cannot handle a loss have no business playing in a competitive setting. The negative feedback offers zero value. Constructive criticism is one thing, but whining is another... Especially when the whining comes from those who do not participate in the planning, and do not participate in the practices.

 

[Smith.N]

Element Callsign: Defensive Flex
Element Leader: Corporal Smith.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Specialist Felton.J
Specialist Quake.B
Specialist Curran.J
Specialist Remy.K



Pros:

• My squad's troopers stayed calm, collected, level-headed throughout
• Comms were good
• Good insight to different tactics and how maybe to combat them

Cons:

• Outgunned
• Not likely to be able to continue matches against this level of competitive team without rethinking our whole squad/leadership structure, which may not be a possibility
• Issue with transport truck not being spawned as requested during first match, causing 12 infantry to be left on foot including 3 SLs.
• Flanks too far out that allowed enemy infantry to infiltrate behind our lines with ease

 

[Bizutto.A]

Element Callsign: Airborne Probe Squad
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Bizutto.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• good planning

Cons:

• bad flexibility when the plan fell apart and unable to recover

 

[Anderson.P]

Element Callsign: Command
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Anderson.P
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: me myself and I

Pros:

• good Communications and good planning

Cons:

• Tough team, didnt play completely by the rules, lack of time to plan and execute effectively, missing a lot of our best guys

 

[Kinser.E]

S1 Locked!
Assigned Agazzi.J for Processing.

 

[Agazzi.J]

S1 Operations Milpacs processed.