AAR AAR Operation Ruination 19JAN25

Komar.T · 2025-01-20T01:29:11+0000

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Operation Ruination
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 19JAN25
Time of Combat Mission : 8:00 PM EST

Korfias.F · 2025-01-20T03:10:07+0000

Element Callsign:
Element Leader:
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Pros:

Cons:

Bean.P · 2025-01-20T03:10:48+0000

Element Callsign: Jig On Team Rhoades
Element Leader:Sgt.Bean
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Parton.D
CPL.Ellison.C
CPL.Feathers.A
SPC.Miller.L
SPC.Plummer

Pros:

Guys loved it they had a blast. Concept was well thought out.
These boys killed it to be honest out of three rounds to go 2-0-1 great work boys great stuff
Overall good stuff

Cons:
- Thoughts for future use. Perhaps open up AO in the red for each side to three to four columns.
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Leifried.R · 2025-01-20T03:11:03+0000

Element Callsign: Able Squad
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Leifried.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Sergeant Solo.H
Specialist Palmer.N
Specialist Bjorn.K
Specialist Summer.R
Specialist Fabie.D

Pros:

Intense fighting
Forces creative thinking in a linear game mode
Incentivizes zones of control at a local level
Good map choice

Cons:

Meat grinder
Felt on-the-fly adjustment was lacking
Severe lack of troopers paying attention to simple things & overall map awareness at an individual level
Don't like the feeling of tanks being an after-thought : we have 70 people who's quality of life is based off of what their armor gameplay is like.
- Neutering them by making them too squishy (aka only lights & recons) seems redundant
- Definitely consider no armor at all or allowing mediums / heavies in future iterations

Overall sentiment - Operation is a good idea. Punishes bad gunplay and rewards good gunplay massively - can be truly daunting for some of the less sweaty among us

Rhodes.R · 2025-01-20T03:11:35+0000

Element Callsign: Match 1: Axis Commander, Match 2: Allied Commander
Element Leader: First Lieutenant Rhodes.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Lieutenant Rhodes.R

Solids

First plan did not go to plan, but the roles it provided ended up working well.
Squad were all in place when needed.
Command chat was focused, not too loud or too quiet.

Improvements

One less grid square, north and south for the repair stations would have been huge in making the game more competitive on both sides. Not having outposts for upwards of 2 grid squares is quite a lot. We'd also actually get a chance to use our super fortresses! I did like the only usage of outposts.
I should have been tracking the shorter start time, during the second round.
People on both sides were out of bounds, we need to take a harsher hand on that in my opinion.

Fields.M · 2025-01-20T03:15:30+0000

Element Callsign:Charlie (Recon)
Element Leader: SPC.Fields.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: SPC.Rowe.S

Pros: was fun. The OP was well defined and thought out. Comms were very good.

Cons: Change the name to Operation Bottleneck. Was very confined.

Herber.R · 2025-01-20T03:17:22+0000

Element Callsign: Baker Squad
Element Leader: Sergeant First Class Herber.R
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Wagner.D
Corporal Sokol.Z
Specialist Felton.J
Specialist Grimshaw.J

Pros:

Game mode was fun
Squad did well being the only infantry to make it behind enemy lines multiple times

Cons:

Objectives were too far apart for not being able to have spawns outside of set area and could not build any spawn behind enemy lines due to the center point not being capped.
Play area should be opened up to include an extra 2 columns to allow for more flow of 'sneaky' infantry/ pushing tactics.
Game turned into a meat grinder as soon as we were pushed back to our set areas due to not having spawns outside of it.
Not a "con" but could be an "improve", expand the number of objectives placed on the map so that when one is destroyed, we don't have to pause and rebuild and start over. Would also partially prevent accidental destroys of objective that is to be destroyed a specific way.

Slagg.J · 2025-01-20T03:18:04+0000

Element Callsign: C and F recon
Element Leader: CPL.Slagg.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: PFC.Perez.T

Pros:

Interesting concept.
Close AO made combat intense.

Cons:

Limited AO made recon very challenging.
Server hit reg/lag once again was terrible and seriously took away from enjoyment.

Von Busch.M · 2025-01-20T03:24:34+0000

Element Callsign: TC (Goodwrench)
Element Leader: Corporal Von Busch.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Corporal Von Busch.M
Private First Class Koalafied.C
Pros:

Liked the AO restriction

Cons:

Lots of rockets
Command comms got clutterd too often
No tanks higher then light tanks
People breaking the OP rules throughout the entire game

Hood.D · 2025-01-20T03:28:51+0000

Element Callsign: Axis How/Soviet Easy Squad
Element Leader: CPL.Hood.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
PFC.Kinder.E
RCT.Stanley.MF

Pros:

The AO constraints to the two columns was challenging, but lead to tense gunfights especially going house to house around St.Mary's.
Limiting to satcheling of the repair station was a good decision.
New member had alot of fun.
We were tight and efficient on our match start with nodes/supply drops/defenses, really good job on that.

Cons:

VERY tough to take independent action as a 3-man squad, mostly augmented larger squads on the frontline.

Donk.B · 2025-01-20T03:33:24+0000

Element Callsign: N on 2nd iteration on Axis.
Element Leader: SPC.Donk.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

SPC.Donk.B

SPC.Lewis.P

SPC.Daver.R

SPC.Jeff.F

SMITH.N "Skibidi"

Pros: First plan did not go to plan. Command Comms were very disorienting at the beginning on the Soviet first round for me.
2nd iteration allowed more cohesion, more garrisons, more precise communication.

Cons: Meat grinder

Wisniewski.A · 2025-01-20T03:37:40+0000

Element Callsign: Match 1: Axis Infantry. Match 2: Allied Infantry
Element Leader: Sergeant Wisniewski.A
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Quake.B
Private First Class Tomkiewicz.I
Corporal Warren.G
Corporal Ackelson.K

Pros:

Solid coordination and movement on both the team and squad levels
We very much enjoyed the thin AO, it ensured constant action for all squads in the meat grinder
Shoutout to Belmont.E for being a thorn in our side that whole second match while running the MG42

Cons:

If we run a similar op in the future, would be cool to make the center point live, which would affect where OPs could be placed. It would also create a second location that would need to be held/attacked.

Reynolds.Z · 2025-01-20T03:40:12+0000

Element Callsign: Love Squad (2nd Round)
Element Leader: Specialist Reynolds.Z
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Dirt.E
Specialist Dieppe.C
Recruit Woods.A
Recruit Lakdaahti.B

Pros:

Frontline infantry experience was great
teamwork moving house to house was good training

Cons:

too thin of a play area
some players were occasionally out of bounds

Swanson.B · 2025-01-20T03:42:03+0000

Element Callsign: Game 1 - George (Axis) Game 2 - Fox (Allies)
Element Leader: Second Lieutenant Swanson.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: Corporal Moreau.M, Specialist Rousseau.A, Reservist Alaniva.A

Pros:

Fun operation overall, the ao restriction made it unique and created good frontline combat
Our commander planned the operation very well

Cons:

Would like to see that operation run in a bigger AO to allow Airborne and tanks to move around and do thier things a little bit.

Jebediah.S · 2025-01-20T03:45:03+0000

Element Callsign: TC
Element Leader: SPC.Jebediah.S
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

SPC. Dupell.G

SPC. Richman.A

Pros:

Good comms between SLs and commander
Fine with narrow AO

Cons:

Armor at heavy disadvantage with only light/recon vehicles plus narrow AO
no limits on AT, so we were a big target
objective being a repair station makes it difficult for tanks who can't target any enemy near the objective, plus repair stations can't be used anywhere else

Silvis.B · 2025-01-20T04:02:26+0000

Element Callsign: H on 2nd iteration on Axis.
Element Leader: SSG.Silvis.B
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:

Mair
Darko
Hugo
Williams

Pros:

Loved it on defense
Great concept and execution over all

Cons:

Only 1 is make it a man power node or something that can only be dismantled by hand or satchel. Also would help defenders build up with decrease supply cool down

Noriega.D · 2025-01-20T04:10:18+0000

Element Callsign: Match 1: Allies Hotel, Match 2: Axis Delta
Element Leader: Sergeant Noriega.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Major Komar.T
Private First Class Belmont.E
Recruit Zahedi.H (Hooman)

Pros:

Squad enjoyed the concept.
Lots of fun.
I thought we had a decent plan going in.

Cons:

Map was a little difficult for one to see
Nodes instead of repair stations next time

Barnes.D · 2025-01-20T04:56:35+0000

Element Callsign: Match 1: Axis Alpha, Match 2: Allies Alpha
Element Leader: SPC.Barnes.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element: 1SG Rasmus

Pros:

Good fun match!
Good plans laid out at the start.

Cons:

Rep stations too easy to destroy with tank or rocket. Maybe nodes next time.
AO was a little constrained with a wide open map.

Button.J · 2025-01-20T18:52:06+0000

Element Callsign: TC Swamp Thing
Element Leader: Staff Sergeant Button.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
First Sergeant Balazova.S
Specialist Choi.S

Pros:

Funneling AO restriction was a blast.

Cons:

No limit on AT when only allowed Lights and Recons is a hard balance
Difficult getting infantry to work with us.
Using a repair station or anything easily destroyed by an HE shell is not a good OBJ.

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AAR AAR Operation Ruination 19JAN25

Komar.T

Korfias.F

Bean.P

Leifried.R

Rhodes.R

Fields.M

Herber.R

Slagg.J

Von Busch.M

Hood.D

Donk.B

Wisniewski.A

Reynolds.Z

Swanson.B

Jebediah.S

Silvis.B

Noriega.D

Barnes.D

Button.J