Org - Demographics

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

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.

[littlelostboy]

Age:17. One more to 18!

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.

[Mamba]

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

[Antagonist]

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

[dagiz]

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.

[Banquo's Ghost]

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.

[Incongruous]

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.

[Stiuartas]

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

[Pomerium]

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

[King Kurt]

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.

[Paul Peru]

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

Highest education attained: 3 years+ worth of Uni exams

[Somebody Else]

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Occupation: Undergraduate student (of ancient history)

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: UK (ethnically half Han-chinese, half English)

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): 5-15

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Got a demo cd for shogun ages back

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Got a thing for the Romans. But as the man said - we live in the best of all possible times in the best of all possible worlds.

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

Highest education attained: Part-way through a course that'll leave me with a Master of Arts Honours Ancient History degree

[Susanne]

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Swedish

Country of Origin: Sweden

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

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Some gaming site, if I recall correctly.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: In RTW? Rome (Julii)!

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

Highest education attained: Hm, right now I'm in the process of writing my supplementary paper at my uni, on 'warrior departure scenes' on red-figure Attic vases.

[octavian]

Age: 16

Gender: lets see.... ya still male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: Canada

Country of Origin: Canada

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

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

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Hard to call

Religion (if practising, if not, type "none"): FSMhttp://www.venganza.org/

Highest education attained: High Priest in the Church of the FSM

[bamff]

Age: 36

Gender: Male

Occupation: Accountant

Nationality: Australian

Country of Origin: Australia

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): Not much prior to getting MTW....a hell of a lot more after!

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Just happened across it in a store

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Still haven't decided, but leaning towards English or Danes

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

Highest education attained: tertiary degree (b. Bus)

[Azi Tohak]

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Occupation: Err... getting there. I just gradiated from Callege.

Nationality: American

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): err... for 168 hours per week, probably less than 5 (I'm on RPGs right now)

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Had dreams of STW from preview I happened upon IGN and Gamespot.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Byzantines

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

Highest education attained: BS in Chemical Engineering

[Asmodai]

Age:26

Gender:Male

Occupation:Managing own smallbusiness (driving school)

Nationality:Poland

Country of Origin:Poland

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage):10-15%

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

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:HRE

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

Highest education attained:5 year magisterium at High School (University).
Thinking about doctorisation (in some history field preferably)