As I recall, I started with STW in very early 2001 when I hooked up with Clan Doragon. I had a spectacularly horrible record and usually started each battle with an pre-emptive apology to my teammate(s). I dabbled briefly with MTW when it first came out but gave up after a 1v1 against soly where I accidentally put a couple of units in column formation, promptly panicked and could not think of how to change them back (duh) to line formation before soly's army swept me from the field. The closest I've come since then is popping into the RTW lobby to see what was going on and who was there.