AAR Operation Mistletoe - 13JUL24

[Cameron.J]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Operation Mistletoe
Game: Hell Let LooseServer Hosted on: Three Ring Circus (N/A) Event Server
Date of Combat Mission: 13JUL24Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 0100Z​

Mission OIC: Major Mix.C & Corporal Hazen.D
Mission Controller: Major Cameron.J & Major Mix.C
Number of Attendees: 72
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:
Major Mix.C
Major Cameron.J
First Lieutenant Anderson.P
First Lieutenant James.M
Second Lieutenant DAmico.J
Second Lieutenant Korfias.F
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Mullins.R
First Sergeant Balazova.S
Staff Sergeant Hermes.S
Staff Sergeant Herber.R
Sergeant Rasmus.M
Sergeant Silvis.B
Sergeant Cantrell.J
Sergeant Noriega.D
Sergeant Rasmus.M
Sergeant Guillermo.C
Sergeant Swanson.B
Sergeant Karr.H
Sergeant Strole.Z
Corporal Wisniewski.A
Corporal Leifried.R
Corporal Ackelson.K
Corporal Moreau.M
Corporal Riley.D
Corporal Lee.N
Corporal LaRoche.P
Corporal OCulien.M
Corporal Hazen.D
Corporal Warren.G
Corporal Macpherson.C
Corporal Richmond.DA
Corporal Ackerman.J
Specialist Bas.D
Specialist Silvis.C
Specialist Baldrick.D
Specialist Sokol.Z
Specialist Sanchez.R
Specialist Donk.B
Specialist Shaw.JW
Specialist Leaf.J
Specialist Remy.K
Specialist Fabie.D
Specialist Quake.B
Specialist Kona.B
Specialist Raid.R
Specialist Parton.D
Specialist Hood.D
Specialist Maines.Z
Specialist Frags.J
Specialist Felton.J
Specialist Johnson.G
Specialist Choi.S
Specialist Russell.T
Specialist Knowles.J
Specialist Woody.W
Specialist Grabo.M
Private First Class Feathers.A
Private First Class Von Busch.M
Private First Class Helmick.A
Private First Class Gimson.M
Private First Class Ellison.C
Private First Class Patterson.C
Private Hawthorne.S
Private Porter.V
Private Burnside.C
Private Baker.JB
Private Cohen.J
Private Stannislaw.E
Private York.M
Private Loup.N
Recruit Andrews.C


Retired:
Corporal Smith.N

 

[Lee.N]

Element Callsign: Lead TC, Allies
Element Leader: Corporal Lee.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Lee.N
Specialist Choi.S
Corporal Richmond.DA

Pros:

• The most fun I've had in a vanilla game in months!
• Great pings: when pings were cluttered, they cleaned up rather quickly.
• MORE FNF

Cons:

• Command comms were borderline between too much and the right amount most of the game, many times it went way over the line.
• Splitting our team in two caused confusion; we might want to prep a two team layout and a one team layout for the future

 

[Smith.N]

Element Callsign: Dog SL, Allies
Element Leader: Corporal Smith.N
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Smith.N
Specialist Knowles.J
Private First Class Feathers.A
Private First Class Ellison.C


Pros:

• Great coordination
• Good turtling when necessary, (after middle point dropped and after capping mid and 4th)
• Decent comms/marks
• Good synergy between tankers/infantry

Cons:

• Unexpected split, but things happen

 

[Korfias.F]

Element Callsign: Axis Charlie Squad
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Korfias.F
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Karr.H
Specialist Remy.K
Private Cohen.J
Private Stannislaw.E

Pros:

• Squad did well capturing midpoint and then pushing to the next point
• I always had supplies for me to slap down garrisons
• Squad did a great job working with each other, and call outs were awesome

Cons:

• Empty truck left HQ and had to come back, made us late to midpoint
• Team cohesion broke down as soon as we capped midpoint
• Command comms were cluttered
• Spent all week prepping for this match to have the plan dashed at the last minute and swapped to another team.

 

[Woody.W]

Element Callsign: Axis Recon Unit
Element Leader: SPC.Woody.W
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Rasmus.M

Pros:

• we did play well
• got lots of garrys when i could

Cons:
- my one rout got blocked dy a friendly infantry squad and i could no longer do recon stuff. i had to fall back and defend..

 

[Cameron.J]

Element Callsign: Allied West Defense, Infantry
Element Leader: Major Cameron.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Major Cameron.J
First Lieutenant Anderson.P
Sergeant Cantrell.J
Corporal Riley.D
Corporal LaRoche.P

Pros:

• Win
• Played with Easy Company

Cons:

• Comms
• Several people no showed

 

[Russell.T]

Element Callsign: Axis
Element Leader: @SPC.Russell.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PVT.Loup.N
SPC.Raid.R
PFC.Gimson.M

Pros
Great Defense
Excellent Start
Great Cohesion beween Armor and Infantry early

Cons
Didnt split Attack/Defense Squads
Spotty Communication
Missed A Couple Of Attack Oppurtunities
Underutilized transport trucks/combat ubers
Lost our gunfights

 

[James.M]

lement Callsign: "Jig Squad", Right Assault Allies
Element Leader: First Lieutenant James.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant James.M
Corporal Ackerman.J


Pros:

• Great Opportunity to gain exposure in a Community Setting
• Good allocation of Responsiblities by CO
• Accurate marks on map, reaction to threats were dealt with promptly
• FNF is now Official Operational credit

Cons:

• Leadership Comms were chaotic at times, could not hear footsteps in critical moments

 

[Guillermo.C]

Element Callsign: TC, Allies
Element Leader: SGT.Guillermo.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: 1SG.Balazova.S CPL.Ackelson.K



Pros:

• Light tank was very effective in destroying enemy garrisons behind enemy lines
• Balazova hit a crazy snapshot on an enemy puma
• Had a lot of fun

Cons:

• None

 

[Mix.C]

Element Callsign: Commander, Allies
Element Leader: Major Mix.C
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: NA



Pros:

• Good turnout for new event.
• Despite a last minute change of plan and scrambling of teams, Cav members kept discipline and good morale
• Both teams fought hard and well.
• Allied team was excellent at shifting forces as asked and was able to consistently recover on defense

Cons:

• Multiple no shows caused us to deliver less than promised numbers.
• I was unprepared for the way in which we split the teams. In order to quickly make the arrangements I transferred troops in a way that upon reflection left most of the leadership that had been previously briefed in team one. This caused an imbalance in preparedness. Particularly in light of the fact that we ended up playing against one another it was a shame not to have done a better job evening the odds.

 

[Swanson.B]

Element Callsign: Axis George Squad
Element Leader: Sergeant Swanson.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Parton.D
Corporal Moreau.M
Specialist Frags.J

Pros:

• Command chat was clear
• Our squad destroyed 6 enemy garrisons
• We built 4 flanking garrisons, 2 with support swaps
• We found many avenues of approach to get to the points, we had troopers flexing to our squad
• Our squad (CPL.Moreau.M) satcheled 2 tanks
• Good callout in squad chat
• Our tank squad was very effective and reactive to call outs.

Cons:

• Our squad was made with 3 airborne (1&2/B/2-7) but we were assigned tank escort duties. Would have been great to be assigned an airborne position from the get go. I took it upon myself after a while to do airborne stuff since i didn't see other squad do it and we did succed at it.
• Like everyone said, lack of frontal assault. Thier defense weren't busy at all so everytime we were doing a move, they could easly flex on us if we got spotted and kill us or destroy what ever we had started/built.
• I saw A LOT of squad flex in my squad coming from the other guests but none coming from the 7Cav. I didn't have to call it. They would just show up and fill my squad. They seemed to have good map awarness.

 

[Maines.Z]

Element Callsign: Allies Artillery
Element Leader: Specialist Maines.Z
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

• Allied Victory!
• 76 Kills!
• FnF is awesome!

Cons:

• Would have preferred a Cav v ESPT to really test our mettle. We did come through with more than 50 people though so everyone got a chance to play
• TK's went up a bit in the end on my part due to missed comms. Should show more discipline.

 

[Warren.G]

Element Callsign: Mike Squad, Allies
Element Leader: Corporal Warren.G
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal OCulien.M

Pros:

• For a two man, we were effective at holding our zones of control and calling enemy flow
• Good cohesion between squads
• We lost the mid point cap but organized ourselves enough to take the mid and eventually the rest of the points.
• Solid defense work after losing mid point cap

Cons:

• At times there were defensive infantry in our AO leaving the hard cap itself a bit too weak imo.
• We were caught extended at one point and had to scramble to get back to pierre's farm after the garrison was taken down.
• Command comms were cluttered. Need to make sure callouts are concise.

 

[Gimson.M]

Element Callsign: Axis
Element Leader: @SPC.Russell.T
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PVT.Loup.N
SPC.Raid.R

Pros
Great Defense
Excellent Start
Great Cohesion beween Armor and Infantry early

Cons
Didnt split Attack/Defense Squads
Spotty Communication
Missed A Couple Of Attack Oppurtunities
Underutilized transport trucks/combat ubers
Lost our gunfights

Don’t forget to add me

 

[Kona.B]

Element Callsign: Love SL, Allies
Element Leader: SPC.Kona.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
CPL.Macpherson.C
SPC.Felton.J
SPC.Johnson.G

Pros:

• Overall good comms
• Good markers and call outs
• Did well reestablishing on Cattlesheds when we lost Pierre's Farm

Cons:

• Comms could sometimes get a bit cluttered making it hard to communicate with my squad
• Sometimes our defense over extended when it got boring sitting around.
• Wasn't a huge fan of the last second split before the match but I get that stuff happens, but wasn't too excited about being moved to Squad Lead when I wasn't briefed on anything and had no idea what my squad was supposed to be doing. Didn't realize until near the end of the game that our squad was east strongpoint defense and not east 4 grid defense. I get that I was moved to SL because someone was late and that was fine, but when they showed up 5 minutes before the match, I didn't understand why they couldn't take the SL slot in their squad back since I'm assuming they had been briefed and knew what was going on. I don't mind being SL, I just don't enjoy going in unprepared though.

 

[Noriega.D]

Element Callsign: Charlie SL, Allies
Element Leader: SGT.Noriega.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Hood



Pros:

• Great coordination
• Good turtling when necessary, (after middle point dropped and after capping mid and 4th)
• Decent marks
• Good synergy between airborne

Cons:

• Comms were cluttered

 

[Von Busch.M]

Element Callsign: TC, Axis
Element Leader: Private First Class Von Busch.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private First Class Von Busch.M
Specialist Bas.D
Private Hawthorne.S

Pros:

• Great start in the game, despite the split in teams
• Great tank communication
• FNF was fun even in the loss

Cons:

• Command comms got too chaotic at times

 

[Porter.V]

Element Callsign: Artillery, Axis
Element Leader: Private Porter.V
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Porter.V

Pros:

• 53 Kills
• FnF is fun

Cons:

• No call outs in command chat
• Poor utilization of dedicated artillery role

 

[Russell.T]

Don’t forget to add me

Added, I was stressin I knew I forgot someone

 

[Hazen.D]

Element Callsign: Commander, Axis
Element Leader: CPL.Hazen.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: NA



Pros:

• Excellent turnout for the relatively new FnF.
• Team came together quickly despite last second team split.
• Everyone seemed to have fun, spirits stayed high throughout. Despite losing, prevailing attitude was "make them pay for every inch"

Cons:

• Team lost momentum after taking mid point.
• Once we were pushed back to second point, we lost any semblance of a front line. We need to keep a tough frontline.
• Fallback garrisons need to be maintained. Initial loss of fallback garrisons nearly cost us the match much earlier
• Flanking movements on enemy point always came from one direction. Need to open more flanking avenues. To the Allie's benefit, those lack of multiple angles were shutdown by observant supply hunters.