The Guild
Overview
This is one of the largest 3 Total War forums, the other two being Total War Center and the Official Forums. It is also commonly known as the 'Org' as it's web address is www.totalwar.org. The Org is home to many mods, the largest of which is Europa Barbarorum. It has the most active Medieval: Total War and Shogun: Total War sections, and is the second largest in terms of members. It features an arcade, an IRC chat and a Java Chat. It is said to have a generally friendly and welcoming community. It is currently run by TosaInu, forum administrator, Ser Clegane, TosaInu's deputy, and barroca, website administrator.
History
Created in 1998 by Dan Goldstein, the original domain was a fan page dedicated to Creative Assembly's Shogun: Total War game. The site itself spawned a community of like minded fans that congregated on a subsidiary Echelon board which, due to the large influx of members and subsequent instability, were later discarded and replaced more than once for several on-server board services along with hosted sub-sites.
In 2001 the admins were Terazawa (mainpage) and Anssi Hakkinen (Sword Dojo) and Dan Goldstein was webmaster.
