The Major and the General (Operation Compass Succeeds - Version 2)

Afraid I've spotted another typo (sorry).



That would be Cameron. :D
It's repeated several times, I'm afraid (sorry again).


You may have spotted the secret second POD - where one of the Cameroons has decided to raise a regiment for the Queen's service

;)
 
Condor how are things going i hope your back on track soon cant wait to see where you going to take us next.
 
So--what a coincidence! Here we are--

March 22, 2011-- talking again about Tripoli, the military value of Tripoli, the things necessary to take Tripoli away from yet another dictator now a pariah.
This is a more complicated scenario now, of course.
My uncle, a North Africa vet. with the U.S. Navy, passed away last August. Thomas Henderson Faulkner, served aboard U.S. sub-chasers during the North African campaign of 1942 and the Mediterranean campaigns in Sicily, Salerno, and the south of France.

He'd been on my mind a lot as I was losing him over those last months.
 

Hyperion

Banned
Was hoping for an update.

I would love to be proved wrong, but I think it's safe to say this timeline is dead for the moment. Again, I would love to be proved wrong.

If Condor or someone else does try and restart or finish this timeline or the original version, might I suggest trying not to go overboard on the details. From what Condor mentioned of his plans for this, I have a feeling he overkilled and burned out.
 
is this timeline still going

is this timeline still going I see you sid you had big updates a few months ago will we see them
 
I know I'm late to the party, but I'm pretty sure Eden, not Attlee, was Churchill's designated successor. Deputy PM means nothing in the British system.
 
Jesus I had no idea so many people were reading this :)

To answer your questions:

is this timeline dead ?

If I'm honest I've barely done any work on the Major and the General for about a year and a half.

After my last computer crashed, taking all my research, orders of battle, bookmarks, the drafts of the next several months of updates for the TL and pretty much everything else with it, I found the task of attempting to restart it, from scratch, too daunting. The research took the best part of two to three months to put together from books and online for the North African and Far East theatres Alone, and since the aforementioned technological disaster I've just kept putting off attempts to get it going again. This is before we even mention what my personal life...in fact no, lets not mention my personal life.

Was hoping for an update.

I would love to be proved wrong, but I think it's safe to say this timeline is dead for the moment. Again, I would love to be proved wrong.

If Condor or someone else does try and restart or finish this timeline or the original version, might I suggest trying not to go overboard on the details. From what Condor mentioned of his plans for this, I have a feeling he overkilled and burned out.

Mother of God...this is an understatement :rolleyes:

I already had, as clearly some of you spotted, several mini-meltdowns in the process of writing the parts that got posted, as in trying to pre-empt any mistakes I kept throwing in even more detail and this combined with the increasing lack of spare time meant that for me nothing seemed to get done.

On the subject of restarting the TL; the straight answer is it won't be in the near future. Firstly I mentioned the time consumed, and the mental anguish, in getting the last version posted and secondly I kinda had an idea for an English Civil War TL that I've been focusing my ramshackle abilities on recently, and as that's been a much smoother ride I think I'd want to finish that first before even thinking about returning to writing more updates for the Major and the General. If I do restart it at some point though we'll be going with the short, short version.

In the mean time if anybody does want to take the idea and run with it i'm have to pass on the torch to you and let you do your own version.

If I ever finish off mine we'll be able to compare notes...
 
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is this timeline still going I see you sid you had big updates a few months ago will we see them

Agreed. It is an enjoyable read

I'm kinda flattered that so many new people seem to have trawled through the site to read it, and that the posters who followed it originally are still eager for more as well. :)

Guys this thread is dead. Condor hasn't posted on this site for nearly a year, and hasn't updated this thread for nearly two.

Christ it nearly has! I may not have posted anything in a while but I still check the site out fairly frequently to see what others are up to. Unfortunately between work and other commitments I've not had the time to participate as much as I used to.
 
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Hyperion

Banned
If you want to restart or finish, I for one will read it.

Honestly, if you do decide to continue this at a later date, I think you might be better off taking your original version of the story and polishing it up a bit and continuing from there.

This one is good, but IMO, I actually liked the original version you had going a lot better.

If you do continue, or do any other timelines though, try not to overkill. The fact that you where able to post what you already have posted is far more than I could ever dream of doing, but I've seen it here and other places where a good author will do too much and burn out, or go overboard on details and look at a lot of things that aren't necessarily important or necessary, or more filler information.

If you do decide to pick this up again later on, feel free to ask me for help.
 
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