Eastern Front - Murmansk.
I activated the early refit for Arkhangelsk Group to bolster the northern defenses, transferring a division to Murmansk and sending support to the Medvezhyegorsk line. Ken might want to push harder here soon, especially after Leningrad falls. I'm not sure I'll be able to commit much more to the Finland border regions. But there is a chance, if things go well in the Russian front, I will have a free army to shift up north.
Eastern Front - Leningrad.
Any hope of relieving the city of Leningrad has vanished as the Nazis have pushed back my breakthrough in the east and I've been forced to pull troops from the northern line against the Fins. This is truly the last breaths, and the defenders are holding on stolen time. It's a wonder the city has held even this long.
North African Front - Tobruk.
Similarly to Leningrad, but at a much smaller scale, the defenders around Tobruk continue to hold out and keep the Axis supply line disrupted. I stupidly ordered an attack to retake the city, but it failed of course and now I'll be lucky to maintain a desperate rear guard action more than one more turn.
North African Front - El Alamein.
The North African situation is turning out much better than it looked like it would just two turns ago. This can be blamed on two things. One, the terrible Axis supply capabilities in this region. And two, the Tobruk rear guard. It took much more to take the city from its last defenders than I expected, and surely more than Ken expected. Now, the 2nd New Zealand Division and 9th Australian Division have arrived, ready to disembark from the trains next turn. As it stands, the two U.S. divisions en route--the 1st Armored and 34th Infantry--should arrive in two more turns, plus a third turn to transfer them from Suez to the front lines. I don't anticipate the Axis breaking through the El Alamein line that quickly, so even if they do, the Yanks will be waiting to counterattack.
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