Org - Demographics

[Martok]

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

[Hambut_bulge]

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

[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

[The Darkhorn]

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

[Weebeast]

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.

[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

[symball]

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.

[Ciaran]

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)

[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.

[RemusAvenged]

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

[dkdnt]

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.

[Zain]

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

[Zain]

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

-ZainDustin

[Crian]

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

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.

[Franconicus]

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

[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

[Tarkhan Samsam]

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Occupation: Lorry driver

Nationality: Canadian

Country of Origin: Canada

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): %10.756

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

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Bronze and Iron age barbarian Europe

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

Highest education attained: B.Sc

[Manalainen]

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Occupation: System developer

Nationality: Finnish

Country of Origin: Finland

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

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

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: In RTW - Brutii

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

Highest education attained: Bachelor of Business Administration

[Seagrave]

Age:26

Gender:Male

Occupation: Firefighter

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?:Demo in magazine

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Greek so far

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

Highest education attained:Some college

[manbaps]

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Occupation: Specialist Registrar in Cardiothoracics

Nationality: British

Country of Origin: Britain

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

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

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Byzantines/Julii

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

Highest education attained: MBBS, BSc in the History of Medicine, Memeber of the Royal College of Physcians and Just starting my MD.

[Matrixman]

Age: 44

Gender: Male

Occupation: School Counsellor P-12

Nationality: Aussie

Country of Origin: Australia

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): about 10hours aweek

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: Saw MTW in store

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: Haven't got one really

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

Highest education attained: B.App.Sc

[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

[boastj]

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Nationality: English

Country of Origin: UK

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

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

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society:ERE

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

Highest education attained: at uni

[Gaiseric]

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Occupation: part-time student, full-time pc gamer

Nationality: USA

Country of Origin: USA

Amount of time spent playing PC games (as a percentage): its almost all I do. I need more productive and cash generating hobbies

How did you find out about the Total War Series?: I was in the Medieval spirit with games like AOE2 and Stronghold, so I decided to buy MTW and was hooked on the TW series ever since.

Favourite Civilisation/Empire/Society: I go through phases where I am sometimes into the Middle Ages other times the Classical World etc. It depends on what new types of movies/books/games are out.

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

Highest education attained: Graduated from the School of Hard Knocks