AAR: OP Valere (10.4.2025) by Sahbazz/Sierra Team
1FOB Vihor – we headed out of our FOB and pretty much right away, the Recon unit spotted a roadblock on the road to the objective.
Bradley engaged and eliminated the threat while our team (and other teams) dismounted the vehicles and proceeded to our staging area. We were tasked with clearing two quite large buildings and cleared them in a furious CQB firefight. Alpha 1 team assisted us with clearing the north side of the compound when we had a few casualties. Other than that, we held the building while Bradley engaged any enemy QRF vehicles.
Team movement was okay, a bit hectic at times, but that’s usually how CQB fighting is. I’m really glad to see our muzzle awareness was good and we didn’t have any blue-on-blue while in the building.
Communications Tower – next objective was the destruction of the enemy’s comms tower. Luckily, I remembered to bring a few blocks of C4 (H3rich had a backup block), so all teams basically reached their staging areas and cleaned up the tower area quickly. Our team planted the C4, coordinated the retreat to a safe distance for detonation with other teams, and turned the tower into a steaming pile of debris. Not much to say here. Good job
Echo Hill – several AAA vehicles were spotted at this objective and we had to eliminate them. My mistake was that I totally overlooked where the CO marked our AO (yellow color didn’t help :S), so we went too far north and accidentally attacked Alpha 1’s AO. After I saw my mistake, we all proceeded south, where we encountered a AAA that had a quicker trigger finger than me and sent me (and the building next to me) to the ground.
There wasn’t much infantry presence here, which is weird since AAA emplacements usually have some infantry patrols guarding them. My bad for missing our AO — made the team spread out too far, and so movement over terrain was not optimal. It was getting late, and that showed.
Vatra Valley – this was a similar objective that required us to clear the valley of enemy presence. From our vantage point above the valley, I could see at least three armored vehicles just loitering in the middle of large open areas, and with proper AT weapons they would’ve been an easy kill. Sadly, we had to get close and personal. While getting to our staging area, we had a strange situation when we started hearing shots towards us and even saw tracers flying over our heads, so we started shooting back in the general direction. After a few seconds, we figured out we had engaged Alpha 1 on top of the hill, who were engaging enemy infantry just below us. Talk about the fog of war, right?! After that, we went to help Alpha 1 and tried to clear their west flank since they had enemy units flanking them. By the time we got to their location, the situation was under control, so we got orders to join up with the Recon squad and push south with them. This is when shit hit the fan. Suddenly, two enemy attack helicopters flew into the AO and obliterated the Recon squad, and almost got our team too while we were rescuing them. I have no clue who destroyed both helicopters, but thank you. We had no AA defense and would’ve been obliterated in minutes. This is where I had to leave the mission #becausejob. We were all over the place here. The terrain was really not appropriate for vehicle combat, so we mostly walked around. The fact we had to help Alpha 1 and Recon, who were each on opposite sides of the objective AO, made us quite exposed to enemy fire, but we somehow managed to stay alive and even get the Recon team back into action.
At this moment, I’d like to thank the 48MI and CAP teams for attending the OP. The experience of playing a large mission is quite something for such a small team as SBP, and we appreciate you all taking time to play with us. I hope you all had fun too — and thanks for coming to my TED talk. 😉
[X/O SBP]Sahbazz
Sahbazz [X/O SBP]
April 21, 2025 at 12:08 pm
Very nice.