• We have updated our Community Code of Conduct. Please read through the new rules for the forum that are an integral part of Paradox Interactive’s User Agreement.
Well.... 'bout that.... I lost my job at the beginning of March and the last two updates (and all my notes) are on a flash drive... that happens to be encrypted. In order to bypass the encryption I have to find a way to get the flash drive to a PC belonging to my former employer and put the info in a zip drive and email it to a personal email account. (sounds silly, but it works, trust me)

Problem I am having is finding a former co-worker who will do that since they all feel doing so would be a violation of the company's IT protocals...
 
I'm sorry to hear that you lost your job and the notes, Draco. Perhaps you should rewrite them (awful, I know).

Get better, old boy ;) Best wishes.
 
Ouch. That sucks. :(
 
Yeah, I tried that... was told that anything that was encrypted was company property and therefore was unaccessible/unreleasable to me... ugh.
 
Yeah, I tried that... was told that anything that was encrypted was company property and therefore was unaccessible/unreleasable to me... ugh.

Company Property...the only enemy that can defeat the British Empire! :eek:
 
The sun has yet to set on this British Empire, my friend... look at this instead of being a momentary eclipse...
 
Let's hope your former employer doesn't claim copyright cos then you'd be in a pickle what with everything posted here becoming Paradox copyright! Dunno about your T&Cs but anything created at work is my employer's copyright in my contract (industry standard in IT). Having stuff on an encrypted company device would give them a good shout at claiming it.

I'd like to think I was joking but you just know some lawyer somewhere...
 
Let's just home that they are content with screwing me out of my job...
 
Bugger them. Rewrite those chapters and they'll be better than the original ones.
 
Hope the job search goes well - I've been laid off twice, once was the start of a difficult time the other got me into a job I wouldn't have necessarily gone without bills to pay that has worked out very well.

Fingers crossed.
 
For King and Country; For Draco Rexus

Draco,

I just want to say that I've been reading "For King and Country" for years (literally, years! one of your invisible lurker devotees whom you never failed to acknowledge or salute. For this is a story I've followed through my student days, and beyond). Really, you should be so proud of this superb epic you've wrought so artfully and painstakingly. I'm sorry to hear you've gone through a bit of a rough patch earlier this year. Please take heart, you will overcome, and time does help. Thank you for the magnificent story you have crafted for all of us, as a gift. It's been wonderful to read. (So far! And if that temporary eclipse passes, more treasures may await!) :)
 
I just finished reading the entire thing!XD It took me a few weeks but I am finally done!

I must admit that i never imagined i would finish reading this but it was so well written and informative that i stayed on despite my eyes turning red as a result of far to much time starring at a screen.

I had some misgivings with the slightly childish and outlandish behavior among some senior members of government in the British empire.
The conduct of a certain now deposed Soviet leader after being captured which i deemed fitting for Napoleon the third but not for the Georgian bank robber despite my unwavering loathing for both "socialist" tyrants; Lenin and Stalin. I also think that the a Constitutional monarchy would not work and that the better alternative would be a socialist Liberal government taking power.
The war against Japan was in my considered opinion too short and I think that realistically the war should have gone on until ether imperial troops where serving the emperor some tea or the Imperial Arsenal saw the introduction of a few new BANG makers and then gave the Japanese the honor of witnessing the Triumphs of British Technological achievements firsthand... even going so far as to pay for the delivery.

This AAR is one of the best i have read regardless of these minor misgivings and surprisingly I agree with the solution to the problems in my area of living and i think that problems in Israel/Palestine would be solved with a bit of Imperial Spanking. Consider that the Arab nations keep their Palestinian populations in check by butchering a few thousand of them every decade or so and that the Israeli government does so by not doing anything in the homefront (good and bad) and bombing things in the disputed areas (good bad and bad) i think that the Empire is more then able to control discontent with more imaginative and less ammunition consuming initiatives... however i think that this area of Imperial business will see the growing popularity of sniper rifles among peace keeping forces. I am what you call an Israeli Britisher royalist which means while i recognize the elected head of government my head of state is the reigning British monarch and my culture is mainly 1940-70 British or something of the like. As a result i would like to ask about the status of Israel; is the nation interdependent (and hopefully allied with the Empire) or is it part of the British Empire? Who are the current leaders? Much of the Israeli leadership of the day was socialist and even slightly communist in nature so i think there would be a few problems there.... but i think that Israel would be more supportive of membership in the empire since in this timeline the empire thought side by side with the Hagana/IDF.

You just need to look at when Stalin died... ALOT of people in this county mourned his passing, but i guess that did not happened in this timeline XD.

Thank you for this great AAR, i am planning my own along with a mod i am working on but i hope to see more AAR's written by your capable hands in the future after you enjoy a highly deserved break.... now that i think about it i think i also need one!
 
Last edited:
Draco, just wanted to say sorry about your job - that's rough! What's news since then. Sorry it's been a while.

I'd love to see you pick this up, so that it doesn't languish. But I know how much time it takes -- especially YOUR updates! :D

Keep us posted!

Renss
 
An awesome work of alt-history! I spent a week reading this after running across mention of it on TV Tropes and hope it will be completed at some point.

I do have one question though, and it may be that I just missed it, but what happened to Montgomery after Moscow?