2/11/10 Post Game Review

CTB held a public mission night on the 2/11/2010, running Operation Broken Wing, details and discussions on AusArmA here: http://www.ausarma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6431#p6431


Overview:
With 34 players turning up for the night it was a surprise for us that we even got the game started to begin with! We really weren't expecting another great turn out like last week, so things quickly got started. Groups were organised with AEF Zomba taking the FSG (consisting of 2 Jackals + dismounts), and AEF Wolffy and AAF Glenn taking an infantry section each. AEF Swordsman headed up the command element with AEF Rhodesy operating as the JTAC for AEF Floydii in the A10 circling above (and letting us all know how he hadn't blown anything up yet).  

With the FSG on overwatch, the 2 sections made their move for the first intersection leading out of the Airfield. The plan was to secure the pilot and return him to the airfield before heading on to the crash site and 2 anti-air positions.

Contact with the enemy was made when we were not even 100 meters out the front gate. The small encounter was cleaned up in a matter of seconds and the infantry moved on across open ground. Then the militia made their real move - multiple 4 man groups if infantry came storming across open ground from compounds to the north, and where met by furious fire from 20 UK and US infantrymen.

Command team covering the rear of the infantry advance.

Due to tree cover the FSG was unable to immediately engage the threat, but once the enemy moved into the open Zomba's men climbed out of their hammocks and put down suppressive fire with their .50 cal and GMG mounted vehicles. The fire was welcomed by the infantry, but not so much by the command group who had grenades exploding in the trees above them. AEF Rhodesy later issued a formal request that the FSG all chip in to buy him a new set of pants, as his suffered some sort of strange malfunction during the incident. 

The intersection was secured and a brief counter attack fended off before the FSG was asked to locate a new firing position. A high feature to the west was located but required infantry screening before the vehicles could move through the dense green zone to reach their destination. The 2 infantry groups were split, with Wolffy's team making a bee line for the pilot, while Glenn's team screened the green zone towards the new FSG firing point. The AAF group encountered small resistance and made short work of the task, with the FSG moving through and establishing a new overwatch position.

Wolffy's team was not so lucky. After clearing through the southern industrial sector, the team got bogged down and then cut apart by heavy emplaced weapons and IED's in the dense buildings and thick shrubbery. While the AAF team continued to make their way to the crash site, a Jackal with the FSG medic was tasked back north to help deal with the wounded and get the AEF section back on their feet... but not before a stray grenade (the origin of which is still under investigation) landed square on the captured pilots head. Unfortunately, our captured friend Gary the Pilot was killed in action, and the rescue operation called off.

The crash site from the FSG location.

Meanwhile, Rhodesy was busy at the overwatch position, calling in air strikes from Floydii's A10. They eliminated the southern AA site with both gun runs and laser guided munition strikes. Most infantry caught out in the open were also cleaned up by bombs, missile runs or heavy cannon fire.

With both infantry teams now up and running, they converged from both the south and east onto the crash site, with the FSG teams (now also split in two and attached to the two infantry groups) also moving in to provide cover fire. A small counter attack from a group of militia in the hills was defeated, and the flight data from the C130 was retrieved. The infantry teams then proceeded to remove the remaining AA vehicle to the east before regrouping and returning to the airfield.

The crash site with UK and US forces clearing the area.