The Guild
Overview
The Guild is one of the largest three Total War forums, the other two being Total War Center and the Official Forums. It is commonly known as the 'Org' as it's web address is www.totalwar.org. The Org is home to several hosted modifications, 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 number of members. It features an arcade, an IRC chat and a Java Chat and is considered to be well reputable for it's friendly and welcoming community. It is currently run by TosaInu, forum administrator, Ser Clegane, TosaInu's deputy, and barroca, website administrator and approximately twenty-one moderators.
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.
