Org - Demographics

As a marketing student, demographics is iimportant. So just out of curiousity, and perhaps, for others, how about a demographic view of the org. No polls or anything, just a few simple questions to answer:

Copy Questions and write own answers.

The KATAPHRAKTOI guarantee:
I am not collecting information on behalf of the American government for profiling org-ers and their subversive views :laugh4:
Trust me, I'm Asian :2thumbsup: hahahaha

Age:

Gender:

Occupation:

Nationality:

Country of Origin:

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):

Highest education attained:

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Malaysian

Country of Origin: Malaysia

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A Chinese Pastor

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Byzantium

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christianity

Highest education attained: Bachelor's Degree in Pol.Sci/His. and Mkting/Mgnt

Age: 45

Gender: m

Occupation: Retailer

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England (UK)

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage:a lot

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: got the demo disc for shoggy

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Nippon

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): C o E (ie none :laugh4: )

Highest education attained: College

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: USA

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Flyer in the package of another game

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: none

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: some college

Age: 25

Gender: M

Occupation: pc technician/repair

Nationality: Welsh

Country of Origin: Wales

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):
30%
How did you find out about the Total War Series?:
Bitania Video game club Sent me the Editors choice of the month £40
Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romans "they gave us everything (although they stole it from els where)"

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic

Highest education attained: college, also worked in univesety for a while. (but not educated there)

Age: 35

Gender: Male

Occupation: Electrical Engineer

Nationality: United States

Country of Origin: United States

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 3-5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Downloaded the demo from Gamespy.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: In the game? The Italians. In history? Middle Kingdom Egypt.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian

Highest education attained: BSEE (technical) MBA (business degree)

Age: 35
Gender: Male
Occupation: Software Engineer
Nationality: United States
Country of Origin: United States
Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): not enough :gah2:
How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A friend had Medieval
Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: The Danes
Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): lapsed Presbyterian
Highest education attained: BS CS

Are we going to get graphs as a result of this survey? Ooooohhhhh, pretty pictures :dancing:

Kagemusha

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Occupation: Entrepreneur IT business

Nationality: Finnish

Country of Origin: Finland

Amount of time spent playing PC games:20% (modding included)

How did you find about Total War series?: Read a prewiev of STW in computer magazine

Favourite Civilization: Japan/Rome

Religion:Evangelic Lutheral

Highest education attained: Graduated from Finnish Highschool.(Dont know the term in English).

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Swedish

Country of Origin: Sweden

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Impossible to say

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: My chance, surfing the net

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Hard to say, Sweden is very intresting but so is ancient Egypt

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic

Highest education attained: Currently studying at a university.

Age: 35

Gender: Male

Occupation: Commercial/Corporate Banker

Nationality: Canadian

Country of Origin: Canada

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Picked STW up in store because I liked the looks of it.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: In game (RTW) the Greek Cities

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic with some Christian leanings

Highest education attained: Bachelor of Commerce and various professional and industry designations

Age:15

Gender: im a MAN:2thumbsup:

Occupation: student

Nationality: American from the U.S.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): : 15%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:found out via RTW demo in EB games

favorite civilization: ancient egypt, brilliant beyond there time

Religion: agnostic

10th grade

Age: 40

Gender: male

Occupation: Printing

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Saw it on the PC game shelf

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: American Tribal organizations - primary the Latoka People. The Anasazi come a close second.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Protestant

Highest education attained: BS in Management with Accounting Minor

Age:31

Gender:Male

Occupation:Government Contractor/System administration

Nationality:United States Citizen

Country of Origin:United States

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 30 minutes to 2 hours a day if I'm not working my second job, 10 % of a non work day. Maybe a total of 5 to 8 hours a week.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:internet

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:Greek in RTW, English in MTW, Takeda in STW

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):Southern Baptist Christian

Highest education attained:High School/military technical training.

Age: 16

Gender: M

Occupation: Secondary school Student/Drummer

Nationality: Manx

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 25%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Curiosity

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romano-British (especially the Manx)

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian

Highest education attained: at the moment? Mock GCSE

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Age: 35

Gender: male

Occupation: Research Analyst

Nationality: German

Country of Origin: Germany

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: games magazine (article about S:TW

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Japanese (in a sense of "most interested in")

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): depends on what counts as "practising"

Highest education attained: Master in Chemistry

Age: 20

Gender: male

Occupation: law student

Nationality: Dutch

Country of Origin: the Netherlands

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): hard to say...to much in any case

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: picked up MTW for a bargain price

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Rome

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: atheneum ("high school")

Age: 26

Gender: M

Occupation: editorial

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): errrm...10% at most

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: a mate told me

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: medieval Japan/China (in real life!). in MTW Byzantines, Danes, Turks

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: Master's

Age: 41

Gender: Male

Occupation: Postal Worker (Student again in October)

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): c. 1-3%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: STW through the .org

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romans and Greeks

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None (raised Catholic)

Highest education attained: BA, MA (both Ancient History/Archaeology)

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: History student / mailman

Nationality: Dutch

Country of Origin: The Netherlands

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 1-5% (at the moment)

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Some gaming site

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Medieval / Early Modern Europe

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Roman Catholic (not an enthusiast anymore)

Highest education attained: 'Propedeuse' (first year university). Currently working on my thesis.

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: Britain

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: From my cousin

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: The ancient Romans

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Not sure really

Highest education attained: GCSEs, currently working on AS levels.

Age:20

Gender:Male

Occupation:Student

Nationality:British

Country of Origin:England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:non-playable demo of STW that came with a PC mag.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:British

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):none

Highest education attained:College

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Norwegian

Country of Origin: Norway

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): way too much

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Regional news paper

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Roman

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic

Highest education attained: God knows what

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Occupation: US Marine

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: Philippines

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 1%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Magazine review

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I don't really have one, but I do like to study about them and right now I'm reading a book about Ghengis Khan.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christmas Easter Catholic

Highest education attained: High School

Age: Impossible to tell, I do not use your odd timekeeping methods.

Gender: Man

Occupation: Hunter/Gatherer, called up as a warrior sometimes (damn farmers are starting to pop up though)

Nationality: WTF is this?

Country of Origin: You mean you don't share the land?

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): We play all kinds of games in my cave.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A clan leader told me, he probably was a Prophet or something....

Favorite Civilization: Are you saying our tribe will split or something?

Religion: Being the great-great-grandson of Adam, I precede even the shamanist/polytheistic religions with my pure monotheism.

Highest education: Uh, I can make a fire...

Age: 18

Gender: Male.

Occupation: Student.

Nationality: British.

Country of Origin: Born in Holland.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): A little over 5% during the week, varies tremendously in the weekends.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: PCGamer previews and reviews of Medieval.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Early Persian or the Romans.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None.

Highest education attained: Currently in 6th year Gymnasium.

Age: 16

Gender: M

Occupation: Student

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: born in ireland, brought up in england (mum was english dad was irish)

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: brought shogun tw for a fiver... wil never play any other pc game again

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: the british empire (when the atlas was pink :laugh4: )

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): er.... on and off christian... none at the mo

Highest education attained: doing GCSE's

Age: 15

Gender: Male.

Occupation: Student.

Nationality: German.

Country of Origin: Germany.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):Varies extremely, average schoolweek about 1%. Who plays games with the computer anyway?

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: That was back in the nineties, I saw a demo CD Rom of Shogun.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: On the danger of others calling me a nationalist or a nazi, germany. Our history always baffles me.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None. By god...

Highest education attained: "Gymnasium", would be high-school if I recall correctly. 9th class.

Had to reply to this one!

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Occupation: Unemployed (will be in the army from april)

Nationality: Norwegian

Country of Origin: Norway

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 50%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Saw an article on Shogun in a magazine.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: medieval+viking society/mongol empire

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None

Highest education attained: high school (VGS), Introduction to psychology at the University of Bergen (1 year)

Age: 17

Gender Male

Occupation: Full time student and fantastically popular socialite

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: The UK

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 20%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Bought Shogun when it came out on a whim. Best whim ev4r!

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:19th Century Britain-I like the outfits

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None

Highest education attained: Doing A-levels, off to Uni next year to study med.

Age:17. One more to 18! :2thumbsup:

Gender:Man.

Occupation:Student

Nationality:Chinese Singaporean

Country of Origin:Singapore, Land of the Mer-Lion.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:Newspaper. Yup.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:Juli and Franks.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):Lasped Christian.

Highest education attained:Currently doing last year of high school.

Age: 17

Gender: Last time I checked, Male

Occupation: Student/P.I.M.P

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: China

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): I stopped.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Purchased STW in 5th grade and MTW on a whim.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Chinese followed by America followed by the Dutch.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Satanism.

Highest education attained: About to attend college in August.

Age:19

Gender: M

Occupation: None

Nationality: Canadian

Country of Origin: None

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0-1%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Found Shogun and got hooked.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Hojo Clan

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Non-Religious

Highest education attained: none.

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Occupation: Lazy Student

Nationality:A "Finlandssvensk" meaning a Swedish speaking Finn

Country of Origin: Finland

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 30%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Read a magazine and then downloaded STW. From there it started and I ended up buying the games.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Finland, Sengoku era Japan.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnosticism

Highest education attained: High School

Age: 42

Gender: Painfully masculine

Occupation: tree cutter/log home builder

Nationality: :canada:

Country of Origin: :canada:

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: PC Gamer demo

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: English/American/Mine

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Love

Highest education attained: Endlessly kicked out of high school

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student, Resident Advisor, Writing Consultant

Nationality: American (but go back a few generations and it's Welsh, English, and Danish)

Country of Origin: born in Germany but to American parents and raised in America

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): not sure . . . not as much as I'd like but more than I should

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: random searching online for medieval stuff.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: dark age Celtic (eg Gwynedd, Strathclyde, Rheged)

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Mormon

Highest education attained: working on a BA

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: United States of America

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10%-20%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Internet

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Imperial Germany

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Roman Catholic

Highest education attained: 9th Grade

Age: 27
Gender: Male

Occupation: Roofer

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: United States of America

Amount of time spent playing PC games: 4-6%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Google search on history of the crusades.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Egypt in the game, middle Moorish Spain in history. I also love the Classical world.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Muslim

Highest education attained: College and a few graduate classes.

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Occupation: This and That

Nationality: New Yawk (Born in New York so hence American)

Country of Origin: United States of America

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5-10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Internet

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: The Land of Thy Forefathers...British Empire

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic (Baptised Catholic)

Highest education attained: Ummm....Getting my Associates soon...

Age: 19

Gender: M

Occupation: Student

Nationality: French

Country of Origin: France

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5 - 10 %

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Read a test of STW on a video game magazine

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Modern (western) European civilisation

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: Law degree at the (awesome) University of Montpellier

Age: 14 1/2

Gender: Male

Occupation: Schoolboy

Nationality: English

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Too much.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Was with my parents in a WH Smith's before Christmas and saw MTW in the bargain bin.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: British Empire, the Byzantines, England and the Anglo-Saxons.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Catholic

Highest education attained: Still at school (Final exams in three years).

Age: 30, 31 in a month

Gender: Male, well most of the time

Occupation: Safety Advisor

Nationality: Scottish

Country of Origin: Scotland

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 3-5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Picked up Medievil

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: So many I can't choose

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None

Highest education attained: HNC and various others

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student, but looking to drop out and get a job

Nationality: Belgian

Country of Origin: Belgium

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 1% ?

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Browsing Gamespot probably

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: They all have their interesting features

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: Master of Science

Age: 21

Gender: I'm, like, SO Male

Occupation: Student, mostly.

Nationality: Spanish by passport

Country of Origin: USSR (Hey, it was when I was born!)

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10% ?

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Bought Shogun.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I'm a philosopher. I contemplate the events as they happen and try to draw conclusions. Although I have to say I am attracted to the Ancient Rome and the Samurai more than anything else. Also the Imperial Spain was contradictory enough to grab my atention.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None...(I'm not sure if Jupiter is going to strike me for this..)

Highest education attained: On my last year of a BA

Age:
16

Gender:
Male

Occupation:
School Pupil

Nationality:
British/Scottish

Country of Origin:
United Kingdom/Scotland

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):
of an evening, 17%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:
Came across MTW by happenstance in the computer games shop, and seeing which made me remember playing STW long long ago...

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:
The Clans of the Highlands to the 18th century and the British Empire.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):
A failed presbyterian.

Highest education attained:
8 Credit Standard Grades, currently studying for 5 Highers...

Age: 14 3/4

Gender: Male

Occupation: Disgruntled Student

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10 - 40%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: A friend forced me to borrow MTW over a year ago. He still wants it back.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: British Empire.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): "none"

Highest education attained: Well....does actually managing to stay awake through (most) lessons as at school count?

Ooooooh...are we gonna like, show up as Leo's sidekicks or somethin'? ~:)

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Currently filed for citizen status at the United States (legal immigrant)

Country of Origin: Thailand, just above ya. Me left the blood-scorched realm two years ago.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 20-30%...sometimes more

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: My dad bought Shogun somehow, for some reason. A rabid fan ever since.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I cannot be so biased, so everyone and none.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): legally Buddhist, but consider me a confused none. Actually, I'm a prophet.

Highest education attained: Currently enrolling on 11th grade High School in the U.S. The "attained" grade is considered 10th grade for now.

Age: 34

Gender: Man

Occupation: fashion photographer. commercial photographer

Nationality: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0-5%, i have brief moments of gaming but dislike learning new games (ie. losing while figuring out the rules). usually play when between gigs at home during late nights.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: went to store to get a game for a weeklong bedsit, saw STW.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: 1. French - they know what's important to living a good life 2. Japan (but I don't like their intense work ethic and stratified society

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): the almighty dollar

Highest education attained: Masters

Age:15

Gender:Male

Occupation:Student

Nationality:American

Country of Origin:America

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:PC Gamer magazine

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:America of course!

Religion (if practicing, if not, type "none"): Catholic

Highest education attained:Currently in High School.

Age: 55

Gender: Male

Occupation: Posty

Nationality: US

Country of Origin: Canada

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5-10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Tech article at ZD.net

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Sengoku Japan

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Animist - raised catholic

Highest education attained: 3 years uni

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Occupation:Nursing Home Waiter (soon)

Nationality: Texan

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Friend
Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Rome/Texan

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Southern Baptist Baby!!!!
Highest education attained: attending 10th grd

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Occupation: IT

Nationality: Australia and New Zealand

Country of Origin: Fiji

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 0-5% of my whole week. If comparing PC games to say Console games then 50%.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Shogun, played the boardgame of the same name. Saw Shogun: TW reviews on line and decided to get it.
Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Western Australia.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Tim Tams

Highest education attained: BSc

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Occupation: Currently Unemployed/Correspondent Student

Nationality: Canadian

Country of Origin: Canada

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): %15

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Word of mouth.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Pre-Christian Celtic societies, especially Goidilic.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Satanist

Highest education attained: High school

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: Unknown

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): varies weekly, anything from 1%-25% (but I only have 2 games)

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Heard about Shogun from a mate

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Erm...i'v never rally thought about other civilisations/empires/societies so probably erm...society in london 2005/2006

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None

Highest education attained: Working towads GCSE's

Age: 14

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: Czech Republic

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): ~8% (+/- 2%)

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Friend

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: The Ancient Greeks

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Atheistic

Highest education attained: Currently enrolled in high school

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Occupation: Cashier/Student/Womanizer

Nationality: English/Irish

Country of Origin: The United States of America

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 1%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: When I went to boarding school, my friend was playing it as the Gauls. I got it about a year later.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Carthaginians

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Athiest

Highest education attained: High School

Age: 15 yrs 4 months 7 days.

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: English

Country of Origin: Great Britain

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Considering that 40% of my time is spent sleeping, and roughly 19% at school, 0-2%.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Recommended

Favourite Empire: Alexander the Great

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian (Church of England)

Highest education attained: Almost got some GCSE's!!!

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Occupation: Web Designer (freelance) & Classroom assistant at a nursery school.

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Read review of MTW, bought it, loved it, recently bought a whole new PC just to be able to run RTW...

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Romans / Ancient Greeks (depending on my mood)

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Atheist

Highest education attained: Bachelor of Arts, though if I get past the interview I'll be training as a teacher next year.

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Age: 33

Gender: Male

Occupation: Laboratory Technician

Nationality: English

Country of Origin: England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 2-5% (wife spends lots of time on PC now she works from home :no: )

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: just after I bought my first PC, I bought a copy of PC Gamer, and one of the first things in there was a preview of Taisho: Total War, which later became Shogun.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Hmmm, don't really have one. Probably anything British at any point in our history, especially WW2.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian (Evangelical Protestant)

Highest education attained: BSc (Hons) in Chemistry.

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: Britain

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Over what period of time? Typical session is about 2 hours.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Browsing Amazon.co.uk randomly for a strategy game.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: More into modern history where there's not so much 'civilizations' so to speak, but I'll put the British Empire because it's kinda old...

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic.

Highest education attained: I'm 15, so a good old british level 7 SAT lol...

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Occupation: Collector

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: U.S.A.

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10-15% (average of around 3 hours a day)

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Truly, I don't remember. Probably through one of the game sites, but it's been so long I couldn't say for sure anymore....

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Too many to name just one! Feudal Japan, ancient China, Rome, ancient Greece & Persia, Medieval Europe....

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: Some college

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Occupation: Computer Programmer

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: UK

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 15%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Browsing in game shop and thought Medieval looked different

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: British, although the Romans come a close second

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained: BSc

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Country of Origin: Born in England, though I don't really have English "blood"

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Percentage of what? All game-playing? My life? If the former, it's about 35% right now.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: PC Gamer UK kept carping on about Medieval. I enjoyed it, so I got Shogun and then Rome.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I would hope I have at least a modicum of interest in every civilzation/area/time, but I'm most familiar with the Classical world (Graeco-Roman) and the "barbarians" (Celtic/Germanic etc.) and to a lesser extent later European history.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): None, at present.

Highest education attained: Secondary education? I'm preparing for College/University.

Antagonist

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Occupation: Higher Education Adminstrator

Nationality: a mutt

Country of Origin: US

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: was looking for a new game and thought medieval looked like a winner

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: since I've only played most fo the factions in medieval, I'll go with the Byz.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Orthodox (why I am partial to the byz. me thinks since not many things out there highlight your religion)

Highest education attained: Master's. starting Ph.D in a year.

Age: 43

Gender: Male

Occupation: Project Manager

Nationality: Irish

Country of Origin: Republic of Ireland

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 2%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Saw STW on a shop shelf and got obsessed.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: The Mongol Empire

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Roman Catholic

Highest education attained: Master's.

Age:16

Gender:man (well as close to a man as a teenage "kid" can get)

Occupation:high school student

Nationality: Anglo-Magyar, though I curve more towards Albion

Country of Origin:Albion

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):weekdays 10% weekends up to 25% sometimes.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:Friend told me to go to HMV in Oxford street to by AOE. I saw Shogun, looked at the back, Creed was playin in the store. What more can I say?

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:Albion/Brittania

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):Currently Roman Catholic, could change, depends if the church of England offer me a nice cup of tea.

Highest education attained:6th form/year 12.

Here's mine

Age:28

Gender:Male

Occupation:public relations

Nationality:lithuanian

Country of Origin:Lithuania

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):5%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:saw TV review

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:Inca

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):Roman Catholic

Highest education attained:Barchelor degree in Lithuanian History, Master d. in Law

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Occupation: U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and that is all I will say!

Nationality: 1/8 French, 1/8 Choctaw, 1/8 Jewish by way of Deutschland, 1/8 Dutch, 1/8 Scotch-Irish (from Ulster), 3/8 English....yep...full blood American

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 7-8%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Picked off $10 shelf at Wal-Mart on a whim. Liked the strategic part...who knew battles would be so great? Actual man for man representation and no disappearing dead.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Roman, French, American

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian....as to what type? Southern Baptist mostly, but don't subscribe too much to the idea of denominations....Bloom where God plants you.

Highest education attained: BA in History AND Bible....and I use neither in my line of work....go figure

Age:20

Gender:Male

Occupation: gamer - doin' nothin' at the moment, college starts in July

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: Indonesia

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Not sure, a lot.

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: I went to the store one day and saw Medieval - Total War. It looked promising, I bought it and I liked it.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Byzantine

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Chrislamnostic

Highest education attained: High-School graduate.

Age:45

Gender:M

Occupation:IT Support

Nationality:USA

Country of Origin:USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):15

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:Purchased STW when it came out. The package intrigued me

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Roman

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): none

Highest education attained:USN

Age:32

Gender:m

Occupation:scientist

Nationality:british/french

Country of Origin:UK

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):20hr/wk

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:time commanders

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:franks

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):none

Highest education attained:BSc.

Age: 27

Gender: male

Occupation: Finance/Business administration

Nationality: German

Country of origin: Germany

Amount of time spent playing: approx. 3hrs/day (average)

How did you find out about the Total War series? Saw RTW in a video store, rented it for a weekend and became addicted.

Favourite civilisation/empire/society: If in the game: Rome. If not, ours (western Europe democracy)

Religion: Roman Catholic/Agnostic

Highest degree of education: Diploma in Business Administration (about Master´s level, though not to be confused with MBA)

Age: 52 - but a young 52!

Gender:Male

Occupation: Economic development officer for local government - more exciting than it sounds!

Nationality:English

Country of Origin:England

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): not as much as I would like - about 2-3 hours a week

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: I got STW out of interest, but realy got the bug when my brother gave me MTW Christmas 2004 - other than adding VI I have not played another game since.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: What ever I am currently playing - which at the moment is Byzantine

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):I am a Christian who doesn't go to church

Highest education attained:PhD in electrochemistry - take all your clothes off - it is alright I am a doctor.

Age: 32

Gender: post 90's Male

Occupation: Occu..? no. Occupied? yes

Nationality: Norte Ameicano

Country of Origin: Colorado and Pacific NW

Amount of time spent playing PC games: Don't ask don't tell. (High...110%)

How did you find out about the Total War Series?:
When STW was hot off the shelf. Longtime listener to
'Your enemy's General is dishonored. He behaves like a WHEEPD DOGG!! He's running from the Battle in terror!'

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: All good. (Except MTW Sicily) Miss Carthage though. Oh the possibilities.

Religion: The Way (Taoist)

Highest education attained: UW BS Applied Math/CS

Age:23

Gender:male(Balkan male kind, so watch out)

Occupation:soon enough...anthropologist

Nationality:serbian

Country of Origin:Serbia

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):5-10%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: i dont remember

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:Rome, Greek and ancient Armenian

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"):none

Highest education attained: i should get diploma(hope this is right word) of anthropology on Belgrade University, in meantime, well there is nothing in meantime.

Age: 14

Gender: MAN

Occupation: Highschool Student

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: United States

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 2-4%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Grandmother bought it for me for a Christmas present

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Celtic

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Baptist Christian

Highest education attained: Currently 9th Grade but working on it, duh

DANG, YOU ALL ARE OLD!!! (just kidding, lol)

-ZainDustin

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Occupation: Medical Student

Nationality: Filipino

Country of Origin: Philippines

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 25%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Gamespot :laugh4:

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Chinese

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Roman Catholic

Highest education attained: College Grad

*** Any other Filipinos here? Just asking. ~:)

Age: 40

Gender: male

Occupation: engineer

Nationality: German

Country of Origin: German

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Saw it in the shop

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Utopia

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Christian

Highest education attained: Master of Science in Physics

Age: 34

Gender: Masculine (without overdoing it)

Occupation: Developer/IT advisor (without overdoing it)

Nationality: Norwegian (without overdoing it)

Country of Origin: Norwegian

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 1-2% for a year, 0% most days, but sometimes 20%

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: DL'd Shogun demo, didn't get hooked but liked the concept. DL'd Medieval demo, then waited until I got the game for cheap. Then I was hopelessly hooked, especially after VI and the Great Mods.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I usually like to go for underdogs and the lesser known ones.

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): Agnostic Pastafarian :inquisitive:

Highest education attained: 3 years+ worth of Uni exams :wall: