AAR AAR Campaign War in the West (4/4) : Operation Utah Beach

[Maines.Z]

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
S3 BATTLE STAFF
Headquarters
7th Cavalry Regiment
COMBAT AFTER ACTION REPORT
Name of Combat Mission: Campaign War in the West (4/4) : Operation Utah Beach
Game: Hell Let Loose
Server Hosted on: Training Server 1
Date of Combat Mission: 14SEP25
Time of Combat Mission (Zulu): 2359Z
Mission OIC: Second Lieutenant Maines.Z
Mission Controller: Second Lieutenant Maines.Z + Corporal Rhodes.R
CRCON STATS

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Number of Attendees: 65
7th Cavalry Personnel Involved in Action:

Major Rollins.R - RETIRED
Captain Korfias.F
First Lieutenant Macpherson.C
First Lieutenant Swanson.B
Second Lieutenant Grimshaw.J
Second Lieutenant Maines.Z
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Mullins.R
First Sergeant Mueller.H
Master Sergeant Herber.R
Sergeant Ackelson.K - RESERVES
Sergeant Angels.N
Sergeant Baldrick.D
Sergeant Moreau.M
Sergeant Plummer.M
Corporal Barnes.D
Corporal Beauchamp.R
Corporal DAmico.J
Corporal Feathers.A
Corporal Flick.J
Corporal Harris.W
Corporal Heinz.B
Corporal Koalafied.C
Corporal LaRoche.P
Corporal Narayanaswamy.A
Corporal Rhodes.R
Corporal Slagg.J
Corporal Tilley.B
Corporal Williams.JB
Specialist Aponte.A
Specialist Arnold.W
Specialist Austin.M
Specialist Bonderant.F
Specialist Doss.R
Specialist Fenrir.J
Specialist Fortescue.C
Specialist Freeze.T
Specialist Giglio.M
Specialist Hoover.T
Specialist Kenton.W
Specialist Matthews.A
Specialist Milkovic.D
Specialist Richman.A
Specialist Roderick.S
Specialist Rowe.S
Specialist Sibley.K
Specialist Spell.G
Specialist Tawfik.Y
Specialist Teague.B
Specialist Thrawn.N
Specialist Walton.D
Private First Class Banfield.H
Private First Class Beckner.Z
Private First Class Donavan.O
Private First Class Josephs.E
Private First Class Von Knispel.K
Private First Class Lewis.B
Private First Class Tuff.O
Private First Class Turnbull.J
Private First Class Schultz.H
Private First Class Star.J
Private First Class Steven.D
Private Cross.E
Private Lynch.M
Recruit Colbert.L

 

[Moreau.M]

Element Callsign: Allies AT Squad 1D
Element Leader: Sergeant Moreau.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Sergeant Moreau.M
Corporal Narayanaswamy.A
Specialist Bonderant.F
Private First Class Star.J

Pros:

• great finale that we won whoop
• Good comms and callouts and cohesion

Cons:

• My provider didn't like me and i missed the last 20 minutes

 

[Baldrick.D]

Element Callsign: Allied Assault Squad 2B
Element Leader:SGT.Baldrick.D
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
SPC.Freeze.T
CW4.Mullins.R


Pros:

• Very intense combat
• Very good callouts and command comms
• Really enjoyed the story line OP's. Would really love to see more in the future/continue off the first 4 already done
• Freeze, Mullin, and I maxed out the amount of AT mines and got 7 mine kills and 2 satchel tank kills

Cons:
None. All my guys and myself included had tons of fun

 

[Kenton.W]

Element Callsign: Able Allied Rifle Squad 1C
Element Leader: Specialist Kenton.W
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Doss.R
Private First Class Tuff.O
Recruit Cross.E

Pros:

• Hard fought but fun win.
• Everyone communicated well, good call outs from the whole squad and command
• Fun little fire fights all over the map

Cons:

• Felt a little outnumbered being the only element in the rear, ended up doing a lot of ping ponging from one incursion to the next without much time to reset or keep our garrisons refreshed as they went down.
• Not having AT or Satchels really hurt our effectiveness

 

[Plummer.M]

Element Callsign: Axis Easy
Element Leader: Sergeant Plummer.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Best Tilley
Corporal Aaron Feathers
PFC Jack Turnbull
RCT.Colbert.L ( No Milpac found?)

Pros:

• Squad was solid calling out enemy.
• Managed to destroy 3 tanks.

Cons:

• Class-lock not favored.
• Tanks to Infantry cohesion seemed non-existent
• Overall cohesion seemed severed.

 

[Arnold.W]

Element Callsign: Axis Pioneer Squad 1B "Baker"
Element Leader: Specialist Arnold.W
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Arnold.W
First Lieutenant Macpherson.C
Second Lieutenant Sotelo.R
Corporal Williams.JB
Private Lynch.M

Pros:

• Squad worked very well together and did what was needed when was asked.
• 2nd Lt Sotelo was the only "Trooper" that built AT guns to help our allied armor as well as allied infantry shooting at enemy tanks and at enemy infantry.
  • As well as 2nd Lt backed a supply truck down the MSR, west of WN7, and was KIA which that's when 1st Lt got into the truck and backed it down further the road and got it blown up which allowed us and others push up to the point somewhat "easier".

Cons:

• Our squad felt like we didn't have any true support pushing WN7. The armor pushed by themselves w/o any infantry support at one point. But personally, I only saw CPL Harris.W helping push with us as infantry which we got on the point for a few minutes which no support we didn't last long.
• Without the commander abilities it was near impossible to take WN7 (understandable because of the operation)

 

[Sibley.K]

Element Callsign: Allied Tank Lead TC - Tank Callsign: Blood Spire
Element Leader: Specialist Sibley.K
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Sibley.K
Specialist Thrawn.N
Specialist Hoover.T


Pros:

• Leadership worked to incorporate tanks into the team strategy
• Great infantry support for our armor. Repair stations + occasional engineer support + friendly AT guns + friendlies checking for sachelers. Made it much easier for us to do our job!
• We successfully "punched up" into enemy armor, using american medium tanks to destroy german Panthers

Cons:

• Command chat sometimes too hectic to figure out what's happening
• We lost our AT gun and repair station on WN7 early due to enemy half-track sauntering up to the point and deploying

 

[DAmico.J]

Element Callsign: Allies MG Squad Charlie
Element Leader: Corporal DAmico.J
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Corporal Beauchamp.R
Specialist Teague.B
Specialist Aponte.A
Private First Class Banfield.H

Pros:

• Coordination between armor and infantry was on point. Callouts were made accurately, and the information kept flowing in throughout the match.
• The tankers had a stellar performance and held their own despite being at a disadvantage with mediums for the first 45 minutes. They positioned themselves well and played conservatively to remain in the fight against the enemy panthers.
• Assigned roles creates unique gameplay scenarios that you otherwise don't see. You have to plan things more thoroughly, and it makes engineers/AT more critical.

Cons:

• Allowing the other squads to build AT guns would help them have something to use against the tanks. The panthers were able to crash the point over and over again, and there was pretty much nothing we could do to stop them. We got a lucky mine kill on a tank by smoking it, but it felt pretty helpless on the defense. At least take it into consideration. Being literally helpless doesn't make for great gameplay.

 

[Roderick.S]

Element Callsign: Allies Assault Squad 1A Dog
Element Leader: Specialist Shanks Roderick
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Private Herbi Schultz
Specialist Mike Austin

Pros:

• Solid comms within the squad.
• Great cohesion within leadership comm and great planning by commander.
• Troopers did great flexing from defense to counter offense.
• Troopers did great with initial defense setup that required heavy cooperation and many redeployment.
• Tanker did great with comms especially by keeping the map cleared of outdated tank pings.
• Overall squad had great fun with how the operation was set up and personally loved the story background.

Cons:

• One more person on the squad would have made it much more flexible in all aspect of this operation for Dog squad.

 

[Giglio.M]

Element Callsign: Allies Item Tank Squad
Element Leader: Specialist Giglio.M
7th Cavalry Personnel Within Element:
Specialist Richman.A
Sergeant Ackelson.K
Pros:

• Amazing infantry support all game.
• Amazing tank coordination between our tanks
• Amazing call-outs by recon/infantry
• The whole War In The West campaign was well thought out! I loved the evolving rule set based on previous games in the campaign.

Cons:

• Team mentioned they felt restricted in a medium the first half with no flanking routes available for allies
• I am sad war in the west is over.It was my 1st campaign with the cav :''(

 

[Rutkowski.P]

S1 Locked.

 

[Murdock.T]

S1 Operations Processed.