The oldest RTW player.

[Papewaio]

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.

[Martok]

[chuckle] I'll definitely drink to that.

[Matrixman]

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

[Lanemerkel1]

Err, Im 13 and I'm always the youngest player wherever I go

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

[gardibolt]

Well, this thread makes me feel young at 45.

I do think the TW games generally attract an older-than-normal crowd simply because they're history-based.

[Martok]

Well, this thread makes me feel young at 45.

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. 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.

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]

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.

[King Henry V]

Well I remember seeing one guy on TWC who had fought at the Fall of Berlin when he was 12 years old.

[Daman]

BRO_OldMan is over 60 I believe

[Ravenloch]

Im 45, and have been playing "wargames" since i was 12....call me a nerd, 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..

[Zain]

I'm 14

-ZainDustin

[dude_138]

my dads 47 and he used to play....got bored though and prefers stealth games but im 15 almost 16 (and ive had a gaul faction leader who was 74 ingame

[Maeda Toshiie]

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]

I stopped counting at 900.

[Batangueno]

I'm 46.

After Bushface, it is King John II. An excellent patron in his mid-60's.

[BHCWarman88]

i'm 42 year old

I know a guy who is 41,42,and 45..

[Kaiser of Arabia]

There is no way to succesfully beat Byz infantry...They are unstoppable

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

[BHCWarman88]

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

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..