AGN, now named Northern Front, T3:
Ahh, turn 3!! No longer will the Germans convert rail hexes at will. Now they will have to painfully rebuild each one. Plus, by now, they have either extended beyond those roadds they own on the early turns, or I have converted them back to Soviet control with misc units. At this point, I have received the northern Dvina reinforcements as well as those behind the Stalin Line south of the Pripet Marshes. At this point, new orders are in force.
Orders for Northern Front: delay with what units you can, and prepare new defensive lines at Narva on the Baltic Sea and Pskov along the approaches to Leningrad.
The North received a number of SZN reserve divsions this turn. The first decision I facesd was what to do with them. They arrived at less than half strength, with low supply and readiness. However, at 60% their proficiency was pretty decent for Soviet units. I determined that the previous forces would continue the delaying action, and I would try to withdraw the SZN divisions to a place where the could rest and refit. As I'm writing this some turns later, I still think this was the right decision, but I should have used more rail movement to get them to the rear as rail increases on T3 and greatly increases on T4.
Anyway, the plan was to leave some blocking forces in place, but start withdrawing the bulk of the units north to man new defensive lines ...
