How old are you?

[gaijinalways]

I'm 47, and I dust off MTW from time to time (in between Thief II the Metal Age, BG II, Quake, Industry Giant, Capitalism II, and recently Railroad Tycoon II). great game with the battles and the strategy for building and running an empire. I like board games as well, but PC games rock for the variety.

[Plebian#10]

44 hear, however my 13 year old daughter watches over my shoulder on occassion and sometimes gives me good stategic or combat advise - it kills me when she is right and I am soooo wrong.

[Veho Nex]

17 in august

[BlackKnight1234]

Today 16.07.2009 i become 13 years old im playing this game like 2 years i havent played only shogun total war

[bondovic]

Gadzooks! I thought I'd be one of the older generation here.

I'm 36. Which means I remember playing computer games in the 80s. Which is probably why I'm so impressed by MTW

Exactly! One of the genuine perks of being a cold war kid - everything looks awesome! It should be said, though, that I for one need a good concept to compliment the graphics. Or is it the other way around? You get the picture.

31!

[bondovic]

44 hear, however my 13 year old daughter watches over my shoulder on occassion and sometimes gives me good stategic or combat advise - it kills me when she is right and I am soooo wrong.

If my daughter becomes smarter than me, I'll still take credit for it. It's a win - win.

[MasterPhantom]

29 years young, getting older I say!

[Raz]

Turned 16 in May.
Hitting 16 is so very overrated, I'm also expecting that 18 will be the same.

[DEB8]

Hello,

For the record, I am 50, going on 51 ( 3 months to go ). This makes me an antique here!

[Jxrc]

37 and not getting any younger

At last I had 25 years of full social life before Baldur's Gate came out

[Kamakazi]

18 lol

[dragula42]

22, and personally I find this information exciting! It's fantastic, I can grow up in a society that now looks at gaming as an acceptable hobby for all ages. So I can still play in 20 some years :D

[Faremisch]

34 I am.

[Geezer57]

I'm definitely among the oldest here on this forum - one of only three entries (out of 91 so far) in the top age bracket.

Born in the late 1940's, as a young man I was swept up in the Bobby Fisher chess craze of the early 1970's, and played in numerous clubs and tournaments. After taking on a new job on night shift, chess became much more of a scheduling problem, and I found a new hobby: board wargaming. That lead to a fascination with military history, especially ancients/medieval.

Was active in the local wargaming association for years, then (about the time it became harder to find human opponents) discovered the joys of 8-bit computer wargames on a Commodore 64 in 1983. Anyone remember NATO Commander from Microprose? My hardware evolved from C-64 to C-128, to various flavors of Amiga (500, 2000, 1200, 4000, 4000T), then PC's too numerous to enumerate - with many flavors of O/S starting with MS-DOS 3.30 on up.

I bought Shogun when it first came out in 2000, but was somewhat put off by what appeared to be its steep learning curve - lots of strange Asian units I had no clue about their capabilities. So I tinkered with it occasionally, but never explored it in-depth. Bought MTW new in 2002, and felt it was buggy and had the same issues as Shogun, although it was set in a more appealing time period. But that was before MTW-VI, and especially before I stumbled onto the forums dedicated to these games.

What a difference having a little guidance from the forumites has made! So many mysteries revealed! Now I've become completely converted, and MTW (with at least a half-dozen mods) has a permanent place on my hard drive. I even have a computer that will never be upgraded: dedicated to MTW!

So many thanks to all my forum-mates here - you've given me much joy!