We have seen through the winter of '42/43 with great success, having beaten back the Russian drive on Kursk. We caused devasting casualties to the Russians whilst preserving our forces and captured a large number of prisoners. However, this success came at a cost. By drawing in our reserves to Kursk from other sectors, it significantly slowed our advance on Moscow. And it is only June of '43 that we are going to be able to capture the Russian capital.
Army Group South meanwhile held off the enemies attacks and mostly defeated their armor. Now we are eliminating the still sizeable enemy infantry forces between the Donets and the Don Rivers, before making a drive on Stalingrad.
The plucky Finns, together with German artillery and fallschirmjager, managed to take Archangelsk after bitter and costly fighting. We will now send them South to occupy enemy held cities in the direction of Moscow.
In North Africa we succeeded in beating back the counterattacks from the Suez, fully broke through the line at El Alamein and captured Alexandria, giving the honor of capturing the city to the Italians as revenge for their defeats in this theater earlier in the war. We are over a year behind schedule, however and the oilfields still seem like a distant dream.
It is a bleak situation facing our forces in Tunisia. Whilst we were mostly able to destroy the enemy navy with the Regia Marina, the appearance of the Battleships HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney, together with the local air superiority of the enemy, has significantly turned the tide. We were forced back from the Kasserine Pass and are only just holding open a tenuous link between Tripoli and Tunis. Our forces defending the hills west of Tunis have also been forced back and are steadily seeding ground to the stronger enemy forces. We desperately need reinforcements in this theatre, however it is questionable whether they will arrive in time.
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