The org's TEN YEAR anniversary...

[Gregoshi]

This is great. Welcome back Satake, Zen_Blade. What other ghosts from the past might find their way home?

[Caius]

Welcome all those who founded the place. It is nice to know those who I did not have the chance of meet, but who I rmemeber is Mount Suribachi (One of the first PbEM's I heard, I think it was WotS, but may be wrong). Welcome back, real SM.

[pevergreen]

More vets.

[Veho Nex]

Im waiting for bierut to do a one time only comeback, just for a day :/

Ohh and Hello, I didnt even know it was in people to browse a forum for ten years. Good on ya m8's, you should be well past senior member by now. Maybe demi gods? Mythical creatures? Something from out of the Mist?

[Major Robert Dump]

Wow, so it's been that long already.

I never had much interest in the official board, and came to the .org as a lurker about a year before I joined. Luckily, I had been playing enough STW that a lot of the members knew and welcomed me, so I felt right at home. I've often stopped posting when life got too hectic, but I always managed to lurk around, sometimes from a government computer after hours in the TOC and sometimes from a Kinkos next to my hotel on a road trip. This place has changed a lot, and there have been lot of mini-scandals I never quite understood and didn't quite care to.

Boy, was I a drinker back then.

[Veho Nex]

So 6 days till the forum is technically 10 years old. Whats the plan?

[frogbeastegg]

Wait and see

[Catiline]

This is great. Welcome back Satake, Zen_Blade. What other ghosts from the past might find their way home?

We should try to find Anssi

[Gregoshi]

We should try to find Anssi

Yes! That would be great.

Shiro should be popping in any moment...

[Maximus The Bruce]

This forum is a old buggy! We should buy a big birthday cake for everyone !

[Crazed Rabbit]

A fond thanks to all those who laid down the path for us.

And good to see some veterans returning as well!

Here's to more years of good fortune and good games!

Crazed Rabbit

[Terazawa]

I'm delighted to see The Org still going strong :-) We had some very good times in the past.

Kurando, Dan, etc - so long /bow

Big Gratz to Tosa for running the fort for so long.

[Jochi Khan]

Happy 10th Anniversary to the .org.
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[Kurando]

We should try to find Anssi

I took a good look around the web for him a few weeks back, but I couldn't make contact with him. He might be doing his national service at the moment and not available. If anyone wants to make an effort to find him it would be great to see him again!

Cat , tell Shiro to stop by definitely!

[Catiline]

I thought he went off to do his national service about 5 years ago - it was before I moved to London I think.

i lost contact with both of those guys when i stopped using ICQ

[hoom]

I had not realised that the .org was quite so old!
Excellent to see many of the great oldies showing up

I can only lay claim to being a neophyte MTW wave sign up & a refugee of the .com.

Wolf (Lonewolf?) clan members had flash signatures that played a howling wolf sound back then & it annoyed the heck out of me.
.com moderators refused to see sense that I shouldn't have to turn off my speakers in order to not have to hear that, so I abandoned that forum.

I was lurking here for some time beforehand since there was much more delving into the mechanics of the games etc. & lots of .com threads involved repeated linking to .org threads so it was the obvious place to seek refuge.

For me the .org has thus always been a much appreciated haven of calmness & learning amongst the blaring noise of other Total War websites.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Wonderful thread. Kukri: great find!

Good to hear from the "old poots," and let us hope they hang around a tad.

[Shiro]

really don't think any of you will believe this, but came back completely on a whim. no creepy smiley faces on icq required from Cat.

Don't know where to begin really - loved being a part of this forum back in the day. Haven't really kept up with the total war franchise, but can occasionally be found dusting off some Shogun skills.

Amazing to see so many of the old faces. Cheers to all of you, especially Kurando, who really busted my balls to get involved here.

I'm with Cat on this one - would love to find Anssi.