Well,
I thought I would share with you what we saw from the command center. Its a bit long, but Perhaps some folks might enjoy it.
After the big Op was done last night, Gunner and I sat and talked about the Operation. We where trying to come up with the squad that really did the best. The problem was, Everyone did so Dammed good it was hard to say one squad out shined another.
The Big Squads did there jobs, the Little Squads were in there scrapping. COs were making good judgement calls, everyone was keeping command here updated and informed.
The fact that everyone stayed together when we shift north against the knights was an outstanding credit to you all.
The Only effort that really stood out, was the defense at 48 just as we swung north. This was a real dirty job. I know the Nazgul were there, and probably some others. Id have to give the MVP to the Nazgul and there help. WTG Guys!
So On to the AAR From the Command Center.......
This Mission actually started about 6 months ago. Bullethead, FlashCAF and myself have been working toward this for a while. BH did allot of testing and prepared the data for a major strat raid, Flash doing ops for the squad ran a few strat nights for us to get a feel for how it works. the data was put together our plan.
A couple weeks ago I started to harass everyone to get signed up on the RJO mailing list website. I wanted to make sure we had everyone on board and ready to go. I asked for opinions from you guys on how to make it happen. We took that all into account when doing the plan.
So, at 7pm(central) I signed into AH and Started to prepare for Operation Big Load. I knew we would be pushing it starting so early, but you know how the RJO wanes later in the evening. I wanted plenty of time to do things properly.
At 7:30 Gunner arrived at my house as I was typing out target assignments for anyone that might have missed Email orders. He got settled in and by 7:45 (central) we were ready to rock.
The Bishops had the strongest position of our advisories, so we targeted them.
As Squads started rolling things got hectic on our end. lots of questions, lots of reports coming in, But I called for COs to make judgment calls, you all know what to do.
One of the Coolest parts of the night came next. I was stationed in a map room with the Stat Chart in front of me. I would watch the numbers (in %) rapidly falling 95%,83,58,57,54,44,32,21,15% just counting down as each target was hit.
Squads were ordered to secondary targets or to pork fields, we even got some bishop captures. at about 8:15 my time, things looked pretty bad for the bishops, they had NO Strat. Everything was down. It stayed that way all night, until the reset.
All week I had been considering making a second run to pork both countries, but with the numbers the rooks had rallied for a SUMMER RJO, it was apparent we would roll up the map.
Looking at the clipboard, it was obvious the Bishops couldn't sustain the war now. they just didn't have fuel or troops or much else to advance. The Knights on the other hand were starting to rally to push on our back door. The enemy was close to balance as far as fields and numbers, but the Knights at least had some strat, so thy were now the bigger opponent. Spread the Hate and Switch north. I made the call to move against the Knights. All Squads made the transition and the push was on.
Gunner and I assessed the Map and decided the way to achieve this would be to go up to the very tip of the map in the north, then push south again, pinching the knights between us and bishops.
It was a hard fight, We had been instilling Pork Pork Pork all night, it was hard for guys to stop. I cant blame them, we were having a grand time. still it made it hard to advance bring troops long distances. Still everyone stuck together and kept pushing. Slowly key fields fell one by one. Around midnight my time, we capture the last field and we had a reset.
The Bishops had been Crushed by Strat, the Knights had been crushed by field captures. we ruled the map and we had fields darn near from shore to shore.
I would have to say, Last Night was most likely the best night I have ever experience in AH or AW. I can thank all the RJO for that! Iv seen alot of comments that it was the best RJO to date. I have to agree, and Its a credit to everyone involved.
ODM!!!!
Grimm
CAF-CO
CiC - Op Big Load
