So how did you discover (and/or come to play) MTW?

[Scurvy]

I bought Shogun after a friend reccomended it to me. Really enjoyed it, and so got when Medieval was released, I got it.

[Axalon]

I bought Shogun after a friend reccomended it to me. Really enjoyed it, and so got when Medieval was released, I got it.

Goes for me too...

[dragula42]

I bought Shogun when it first came out and I let my older brother play it,
He liked it so much that he went out and purchased MTW a few years later, because I had let him play Shogun he let me play MTW.

Shortly after he moved out.

I liked the game so much I bought Total War Eras
that version of the game I can't get to work though...

[Csargo]

I found STW at Big Lots for 10 dollars in '02-03 and my step-mom bought it for me. I was around 13 at the time and the only computer game I had ever played was Age of Empires. I was amazed by the battles, strategy, etc. in it, so I told a friend about it and he told me about MTW(He's also the person who told me about this site ) . It wasn't until after RTW came out that I actually bought MTW and started playing it. I played MTW for the longest time before I started playing other strategy games.