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Roger that!
We will assign a second in command once all are on Teamspeak.

And again I have to miss it  >  Have fun all!

I think I should start installing the INV 44 by now. (already downloaded)

I have a simple question, from a simple man! ;D Which server and TS3 is this event happening on, as there are 3 groups involved here?

We have used The Folk&ARPS teamspeak. So I guess that's the way to go. There has been someone jumping back and forth between CiA and the other server, giving the server info if you don't know them.

Well, thank you again for participating. You be pleased to know the mission was finished just a few minutes ago, 1 man standing.

After-Action Report on Operation Silberfuchs on 29 April 2012

The mission started as planned, with CiA moving towards the western corner of Chernogorsk from northwest, while the platoons of Folk & ARPS and LDDK moved in from southwest. An LDDK recon patrol set out towards Pusta, the third main objective, in order to reconnoitre it thoroughly before the final attack.

The three platoons were soon in contact, but were able to advance despite on-going enemy mortar fire and two Sherman tanks. Fighting over the first designated platoon objectives began. The LDDK recon patrol found and destroyed an enemy mortar position in the north.

Fer, commanding the Folk & ARPS platoon, was killed in action, and Draakon took over. Variable, the leader of CiA, was also killed, and Psykoisi, the LDDK platoon leader, burned alive inside his Panther. The casualties were extremely heavy all over, but the objectives were finally reached, and fighting in Chernogorsk calmed down.

LDDK had taken over a tent complex close to the harbour, but the American officer supposedly carrying the important documents had not been found. There was a hotel next to the tents where a number of enemy combatants had holed up and been mostly destroyed. CiA stormed the hotel lobby and the documents were found, which completed the first main objective. At this point, the few remaining men of Folk & ARPS and CiA were satisfied with the mission outcome and retired from the front. The attacking force now consisted of the LDDK platoon of three men lead by stm Scottz, the recon patrol, which had diminished to korpr Ukkapukka and Old Fox, and myself.

The recon patrol saw an opportunity to infiltrate the supply depot in Pusta, and managed to blow it up. Equipped with the remaining Panther, the LDDK platoon regrouped with the recon patrol south of Zub. Recon spotted and eliminated an enemy AT position. The target, a radio mast on top of a tower in the castle ruins, was spotted from the hill to the south. The recon patrol was compromised, managing, however, to disengage. The Panther was destroyed by bazooka at the exact spot from which it could have fired at the radio mast and possibly destroyed it. A final attempt with four remaining men was made, and the final survivor, Old Fox, destroyed the tower and the radio mast with it with a satchel charge, thus completing the final objective.

In retrospect, the assault against Chernogorsk was devastating. Without intelligence of the location of the enemy forces and the sought-after documents, it was necessary to find and destroy the garrison and attempt to take control of the town, but the assault could have been carried out more effectively. Mainly, the company could have concentrated the assault on a particular place in town instead of the whole western side, and tried to push in from that spot in tight order, attacking one city block at a time. However, without any training between the platoons of CiA, Folk & ARPS and LDDK, that would have been an effort in itself. The attack would have slowed down considerably in any case. What made matters worse was that any of the three platoons did not manage to disengage from combat when casualties piled up, which nullified the possibility for any later attempt to alter the strategy.

Information about heavy casualties did not reach high enough levels soon enough in the communication chain of the company, and the platoons may have had too independent objectives, which made it difficult for them to support each other directly. As a result, the company was extremely close to being decimated in the streets of Chernogorsk. That the mission ultimately succeeded was by chance and thanks to the skill and cool-headedness of the recon patrol operating far beyond of what was expected.

The company completed the mission assigned for it. The Fatherland is proud of the blood spilled, and the widows and mothers have been sent some flowers, a form letter, and a ribbon to be carried with honour. The survivor of the CiA-Folk-ARPS-LDDK joint force has been recommended for the Iron Cross with a monthly pension of 300 Reichsmark and farmland in the conquered territories.

Thanks to everyone involved and for Spinoza for providing the mission and organising the event.

Thanks for the AAR Broileri!
I Had fun although died prematurely.
Maybe a single, large objective, will be better suited for our joint ops? The battle will be fiercer, although shorter, and will allow guys who were killed prematurely to get back into a new game without waiting for too long... Just a thought.
Thanks a lot for the mission LDDK and Folk! A special thanks goes to Spinoza for making the mission and initiating this event.

Right you are, though then we'd need more than one mission, of course. If the game is a long one, then perhaps it'd be generally best if the most difficult objective was the last one and not the first one as on Sunday, so that most players wouldn't have too short (if interesting) lives.