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Who is the oldest RTW (online) player ?
I had known one polish player named Hactor that was 45 years old.
Craterus
12-13-2005, 17:51
Quite a few of the clan leaders are middle-aged, I believe.
Games aren't just for kids!
Dutch_guy
12-13-2005, 20:10
interesting Question Diego, though I can't think of an answer...I do know we have some older people here at the org. Though I don't know how old they come in MP.
:balloon2:
i'm 42 year old :san_smiley:
i'm 42 year old :san_smiley:
And a Junior Member.. :san_grin:
RemusAvenged
12-15-2005, 03:05
I've had a faction leader that was 63. And several older cheiftains and generals. Oddly these sometimes have younger wives.. Like this guy. Granted he's not too old, but check out hi wife's age. I don't know if I approve of that.
http://www.aitrading.com/img/BritMarr.jpg
King Kurt
12-19-2005, 11:12
Hey - why assume anybody over the age of 30 can't use a computer - some of us were playing games on the PC when some of you were sparkles in the milkman's eye!! I am 52 an avid MTW/VI fan who will get RTW when I am bored with MTW - probably 12 - 18 months time. I haven't played online yet, but have recently got broadband at home so I might have a go. Like many older MTW fans, I used to play with wargame figures about 20 years ago - in fact I had reached UK national championship level - but that petered out when other things came along - like getting married! - but things like MTW enable me to indulge again - and I can see me playing it in 20 years time. My next challenge is to get my 7 year old son interested, but getting him off Sonic the Hedgehog is difficult:san_rolleyes:
Err, Im 13 and I'm always the youngest player wherever I go :san_huh:
Playing TW games since I was 10 (I think), and getting BI for christmas.
i'm 42 year old :san_smiley:
You mean 42 years young. :san_grin:
KukriKhan
12-19-2005, 15:49
I am 55 in 2 weeks. There are a few older than I. And we have registered members who are 10 years old. The last couple of surveys showed an average age of Org members being about 25-27 years old.
Err, Im 13 and I'm always the youngest player wherever I go :san_huh:
Playing TW games since I was 10 (I think), and getting BI for christmas.
I remember one girl here (I want to say her name is Lisa) who's 10-11; she had requested help on how to beat her dad online because he always crushed her with hordes of Byz Infantry. So don't worry, you're definitely not the youngest here....you whippersnapper. :san_grin: (I'm 29, by the way.)
[EDIT]: Okay, so she plays Medieval, not Rome. But the principle still holds....
Many old players is in XXI Rapax - i know one who got 54 years and some a bit younger.
And a Junior Member.. :san_grin:
Yep!:san_smiley: my best friend(I play with him.Hi's 48 years old:san_smiley: :san_smiley: ) I look at :san_shocked: for the Hot Seat script,we want play in hot seat !!!
... But i can't find the script.Any version is fine for me; RTW 1.2 to 1.6 or RTR any one !
Unzip like-mod, please ! PM me or mail me, tnx a ton! :san_rolleyes:
=ET=
PS:sorry I don't speak English, I just speak Spanish,Italian and this poor english :san_lipsrsealed:
...................................................................:san_grin:
Abokasee
12-19-2005, 21:55
I've had a faction leader that was 63. And several older cheiftains and generals. Oddly these sometimes have younger wives.. Like this guy. Granted he's not too old, but check out hi wife's age. I don't know if I approve of that.
http://www.aitrading.com/img/BritMarr.jpg
suprised in his traits it dosen't have rapist (-7 influence):san_angry
my grandad is 76 and has had 2 week snap at it (TW GAMES NOT RAPING)
48, 52 & 55??? So you mean I'm not the only overgrown kid playing in this sandbox?! ... Darn!!! :san_angry:
There is no way to succesfully beat Byz infantry...They are unstoppable :san_shocked:
But what bothers me is that theres noone of my age, with decent intelligence. Not to brag or anything, but most people think im 19-30 before I reveal my age. People my age that I met online are well....Mentally retarded basically. Saying "Your gay" every other sentence and curse words every other word.
PseRamesses
12-20-2005, 13:00
48, 52 & 55??? So you mean I'm not the only overgrown kid playing in this sandbox?! ... Darn!!! :san_angry:
Nope, I´m 41 and have been playing strat-games since the mid 80´s so bring on the buckets and showels! A while back I saw a new member introducing himself at the age of 65 and he´d just retired and I thought, what a nice retirementplan - counquer the world!
Jochi Khan
12-20-2005, 16:58
A while back I saw a new member introducing himself at the age of 65 and he´d just retired and I thought, what a nice retirement plan - counquer the world!
And he is still younger than me. :san_lipsrsealed:
Jochi
Gosh I am feeling a lot better. I am 64 years old. I have always liked playing games and this is one of the best.
Mount Suribachi
12-20-2005, 19:04
I know Gawain is active with MTW mp and he's in his 50s..
Me, I'm 33...
I remember playing the game of Risk quite a bit as a young teenager. Then when my friends and I finally got bored with it, I embarked on a huge project to build a bigger and better map. The end result was a map that was about 48" x 60" and had practically every country on it from the modern world. We used combined game pieces from 3 different game sets in order to have enough armies to fill the map. I remember it taking two to three weeks for us to finish just one game. And when we combined it with the ability to draw up written alliances and treaties with one another... well... the game could potentially last for weeks on end!
Aaaaah... those were the days. To be a kid again with so much free time on one's hands. But now I'm all grown up. :san_laugh:
PseRamesses
12-20-2005, 19:44
I remember playing the game of Risk quite a bit as a young teenager. Then when my friends and I finally got bored with it, I embarked on a huge project to build a bigger and better map. The end result was a map that was about 48" x 60" and had practically every country on it from the modern world. We used combined game pieces from 3 different game sets in order to have enough armies to fill the map. I remember it taking two to three weeks for us to finish just one game. And when we combined it with the ability to draw up written alliances and treaties with one another... well... the game could potentially last for weeks on end!
Aaaaah... those were the days. To be a kid again with so much free time on one's hands. But now I'm all grown up. :san_laugh:
Hehe! Sounds like my and my highschool friends back in 1980-82. We got an old world map from school we could use that was some 4,5-3m. and we glued it to plywood and made eight legs to support it. Then we made lead-soldiers, with paint and all, incorporated a huge amount of new rules to the game - even naval warfare. Every land in the world had soldiers and two or more human players compete for world domination. Boy, thoose dices were running hot!
I've had a faction leader that was 63. And several older cheiftains and generals. Oddly these sometimes have younger wives.. Like this guy. Granted he's not too old, but check out hi wife's age. I don't know if I approve of that.
http://www.aitrading.com/img/BritMarr.jpg
Then why did you allow him to marry her? After all, she is part of your family while he wasn't until his marriage.
King Kurt
12-23-2005, 10:51
I remember playing the game of Risk quite a bit as a young teenager. Then when my friends and I finally got bored with it, I embarked on a huge project to build a bigger and better map. The end result was a map that was about 48" x 60" and had practically every country on it from the modern world. We used combined game pieces from 3 different game sets in order to have enough armies to fill the map. I remember it taking two to three weeks for us to finish just one game. And when we combined it with the ability to draw up written alliances and treaties with one another... well... the game could potentially last for weeks on end!
Aaaaah... those were the days. To be a kid again with so much free time on one's hands. But now I'm all grown up. :san_laugh:
At university we used to play Diplomacy of a lunch time - used to go on for weeks - people would be caught in a corner plotting and it would all go quiet when you came in - and if you stabbed somebody in the back, a grudge would be held for months - it wasn't unknown for people to fight their way across europe to get revenge. We then went on to a superb SPI game called a Mighty Fortress which was set during the reformation. Any game which involved military conflict, missonaries and burning at the stake has to be good fun!!!:san_rolleyes:
First post. 57 and new to the game. Been a politics-history-game addict all my life, but R:TW is about the best game I've come across.
Nonsense; Medieval is much better than Rome. :winkg: Seriously, though, welcome to the Org, rpg48! :ave:
Garvanko
12-28-2005, 19:34
I've had a faction leader that was 63. And several older cheiftains and generals. Oddly these sometimes have younger wives.. Like this guy. Granted he's not too old, but check out hi wife's age. I don't know if I approve of that.
http://www.aitrading.com/img/BritMarr.jpg:fainting:
Divine Wind
12-29-2005, 02:37
First post. 57 and new to the game. Been a politics-history-game addict all my life, but R:TW is about the best game I've come across.
Hello and welcome!
23 myself, but i do wonder whether in 20 to 30 years time i will still be lurking around these old taverns!
:bow:
Papewaio
12-29-2005, 02:50
32 years or 24 years old depending on what age system you use. :winkg:
When I joined I was about 2 or 3 years younger then average here... the medium age has decreased about the same pace as I have increase my age.
32 years or 24 years old depending on what age system you use. :winkg:
When I joined I was about 2 or 3 years younger then average here... the medium age has decreased about the same pace as I have increase my age.
[activates sucking-up mode] Well since you're pretty much a god here on this site anyway, your age doesn't really matter, does it? :tongueg: [de-activates sucking-up mode]
So you're actually a few years older than me, Pap? Weird; for some reason I thought you were my age.
Papewaio
12-29-2005, 23:06
You can only be young once but you can be immature for a lifetime...
So until they find the fountain of youth I will have to stay bouyantly immature. :smile:
[chuckle] I'll definitely drink to that. ~:cheers:
Matrixman
01-13-2006, 14:39
What a cool thread....I'm 44....I've found those blasts from the past fascinating...lead soldiers and stuff.
I'm a wannabe RTW person - my computer puffs and wheezes too much to handle RTW at present. I've been playing MTW-VI for ages, and about to go retro with STW-WE- when my copy arrives
I got into the gaming thing when I was about 8....Mum and Dad bought me several packs of those Airfix 1/72 scale soldiers. I had Vikings, Romans, British Commandos, WW1 Brit infantry, WW1 German infantry, WW2 Russian infantry, Union and Confederates from the American Civil War....
.....aaarh the memories ....I used to act out huge battles on the floor or on tables...I used to even use the plastic link things they came with, as barricades. I used to get battles plan from magazines like World of Wonder, Look and Learn, and Tell me Why and act them out with my motley crew of plastic men...
I'll have to stop.......I'm getting all weepy.....excuse me....gotta go:curtain:
Lanemerkel1
01-13-2006, 17:26
Err, Im 13 and I'm always the youngest player wherever I go :san_huh:
Playing TW games since I was 10 (I think), and getting BI for christmas.
well your not the youngest this time, I just turned 13 two weeks ago :2thumbsup:
gardibolt
01-20-2006, 21:23
Well, this thread makes me feel young at 45. :2thumbsup:
I do think the TW games generally attract an older-than-normal crowd simply because they're history-based.
Well, this thread makes me feel young at 45. :2thumbsup:
I do think the TW games generally attract an older-than-normal crowd simply because they're history-based.
I think most of us here would agree with that, even after you factor in the younger players who came out of the woodwork when Rome was released. Even allowing that as a group, PC gamers have aged somewhat, I think TW players tend be a little older still. At 29, I have a feeling I'm probably in the middle of the pack--and I doubt there's that many games where the median age of their players is close to 30.
What I find funny is that my 57-year-old father now has a little bit of the Total War bug (not that he'll admit it!); and this is a man who has long disparaged my hobby of playing PC games. I haven't been able to convince him to actually sit down and play Shogun or Medieval yet, but I've been steadily chipping away at his resolve for the last year or so. ~D I briefly stayed with my dad for a couple months back in 2004, and was playing Medieval a lot of the time. Often when I was playing, he would *ever* so casually stroll over to my desk in the family room and watch over my shoulder while I beat the crap out of the Almohads (I had a Spanish campaign going at the time). He was clearly intrigued, but whenever I asked him him if he wanted to sit down and try it out, he would suddenly step back and say "no thanks", and act like he wasn't really that interested. ~:rolleyes:
I think his real problem, however, is that he doesn't have a computer capable of running the game. (All he has is his crappy laptop from his job, which is even worse than the hunk of junk I have now.) So when I upgrade my PC in a couple months, I think I'll give him this one, so that he can at least play Shogun and Medieval. And after I show him Medieval 2, who knows? Perhaps that will be enough to convince him to get a new computer himself! There may be hope for him yet.... ~;)
GaugamelaTC
01-21-2006, 13:35
lanemerkel and holybandit, i know how u guys feel with all the stupid cursing. I've been playing total war since i was 11 and now im 13. You two should contact me for some MP action.:idea2:
King Henry V
01-22-2006, 21:38
Well I remember seeing one guy on TWC who had fought at the Fall of Berlin when he was 12 years old.
BRO_OldMan is over 60 I believe :2thumbsup:
Ravenloch
01-23-2006, 04:51
Im 45, and have been playing "wargames" since i was 12....call me a nerd,:book: but hey..I dont drink all that much, and my wife understands my need to kill something is better spent on the computer than with our two Pomeranians..
I'm 14 :smile:
-ZainDustin
dude_138
01-27-2006, 21:47
my dads 47 and he used to play....got bored though and prefers stealth games :no: but im 15 almost 16 (and ive had a gaul faction leader who was 74 ingame :laugh4:
Maeda Toshiie
01-29-2006, 18:23
The oldest MTW player that I know of is Bushface, who is in his 70s I believe. I do not know if he plays RTW.
The_Doctor
01-29-2006, 23:39
I stopped counting at 900.~:eek:
Batangueno
02-01-2006, 23:02
I'm 46. :saint:
After Bushface, it is King John II. An excellent patron in his mid-60's.
BHCWarman88
02-03-2006, 02:02
i'm 42 year old :san_smiley:
I know a guy who is 41,42,and 45..
Kaiser of Arabia
02-03-2006, 02:15
There is no way to succesfully beat Byz infantry...They are unstoppable :san_shocked:
But what bothers me is that theres noone of my age, with decent intelligence. Not to brag or anything, but most people think im 19-30 before I reveal my age. People my age that I met online are well....Mentally retarded basically. Saying "Your gay" every other sentence and curse words every other word.
Same problem...except when people get to the backroom they know my age :dizzy2:
BHCWarman88
02-03-2006, 02:25
What a cool thread....I'm 44....I've found those blasts from the past fascinating...lead soldiers and stuff.
I'm a wannabe RTW person - my computer puffs and wheezes too much to handle RTW at present. I've been playing MTW-VI for ages, and about to go retro with STW-WE- when my copy arrives
I got into the gaming thing when I was about 8....Mum and Dad bought me several packs of those Airfix 1/72 scale soldiers. I had Vikings, Romans, British Commandos, WW1 Brit infantry, WW1 German infantry, WW2 Russian infantry, Union and Confederates from the American Civil War....
.....aaarh the memories ....I used to act out huge battles on the floor or on tables...I used to even use the plastic link things they came with, as barricades. I used to get battles plan from magazines like World of Wonder, Look and Learn, and Tell me Why and act them out with my motley crew of plastic men...
I'll have to stop.......I'm getting all weepy.....excuse me....gotta go:curtain:
lol dude, I do the same thing. I got one huge Tin Can FULL of Toys Soliders.. I have a Avon Box FULL of Toys SOliders. I act out battles on the Floor,Boxes,etc.... Dude,you justlike me, but 31 years older.lol.
I'm 13,going to be 14 in March..
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