Staff

TWC Staff are in charge of running various parts of the site.

They currently fall into seven major categories:

Hex (aka Administration), Moderation, Technical, Tribunal, Content, Modding and Gaming.

For more information about the site, see also:

• Total War Center
• Terms of Service
• FAQ

The Staff of Total War Center

Hexagon Council (Administration) GrnEyedDvl - Site Owner & Technical Hex Squid - Technical Hex pannonian - Technical Hex Tango12345 - Moderation Hex Abdülmecid I - Moderation Hex Flinn - Awards and Competitions Hex, Modding Hex Caillagh de Bodemloze - Content Hex, Modding Hex Alwyn - Content Hex Hader - Gaming Hex Moderators Abdülmecid I - Overseer Tango12345 - Overseer alhoon Aexodus chriscase La♔De♔Da♔Brigadier Graham Lifthrasir z3n Technical Staff GrnEyedDvl pannonian Squid y2day Augustus Lucifer Tribunes Dante Von Hespburg Iskar Content Staff Alwyn - Content Hex Caillagh de Bodemloze - Content Hex Content Artists cedric37 - Content Director Lifthrasir The Critic's Quill & Writers' Study Alwyn - Content Director Caillagh de Bodemloze - Deputy Director Turkafinwë The Eagle Standard Alwyn - Acting Director Caillagh de Bodemloze - Acting Director Vacant The Gamer's Gazette Alwyn - Acting Director Caillagh de Bodemloze - Acting Director Vacant The Helios Alwyn - Content Director Quintus Hortensius Hortalus Lusitanio The News & Twitter Team Caillagh de Bodemloze - Content Director Hader The Picture & Video Competitions Vacant - Content Director Alexander78 The Scriptorium Vacant - Chief Librarian Legio_Italica TWC Downloads ♔atthias♔ The TWC Wiki Team makanyane - Content Director Welsh Dragon zoner16 Gaming Staff & Awards Hader - Gaming Hex Flinn - Awards & Competitions Hex Play by Post RPGs Lucius Malfoy - Gaming Director Barry Goldwater Gandalfus Total War Hotseats General Dragon. - Gaming Director BerryKnight joerock22 Mergor General Competitions Flinn - Gaming Director chesser2538 - The Total Guess Competition Legio_Italica - The Post of the Fortnight Competition Site Awards Flinn - Awards Hex

Description of Roles

The descriptions below were taken from an original post by Commissar Caligula_

Hexagon Council (Administration)

The Hexagon Council or ‘Hex’ are the main body which performs the day-to-day administration of Total War Center and its forums. They are the highest rank of staff on Total War Center and can be contacted should you have any concerns or questions that you feel other staff cannot answer. If you wish to suggest new features for Total War Center, please refer to the Questions & Suggestions fora.
They can be identified by the following badge:
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Moderation

Moderators form the body which performs the vast majority of day-to-day front-line moderation and they work to ensure the Terms of Service are upheld. Global Moderators are Moderators who have moderating powers over most forums on TWC. While regular Moderators usually only moderate one forum or set of forums (e.g. the M2TW forums), Global Moderators are trusted with moderating powers in most forums. They are chosen from existing Moderators and share a badge with other Moderators. If you wish to appeal a decision made by a moderator, refer to the Tribunal or the Praetorium.
Moderators can be identified by the following badge:

Modding Staff

The roles of the Modding Staff have been merged with the Content Staff and Moderation branches.

Technical Staff

Total War Center's Technical Staff fix technical problems on the site, ensure that it runs smoothly and may add, configure or remove features if necessary.
If you wish to discuss issues related to TWC's software or hardware" and for queries like "Why doesn't this feature work?" or "I found something wrong", please use The Questions & Suggestions sub-forum.
Technical Staff can be identified by the following badge:

Tribunes

The Tribunes form the Tribunal, a body which exists to provide those members of TWC who have been punished by the Moderation Branch with a place to request the reversal of their punishment. This is in no way a guarantee that the punishment will be removed, but every case presented will be reviewed by a panel of three judges. Tribunes are appointed by Hex to serve indefinitely, and are answerable only to GrnEyedDvl. If you wish to appeal a decision made by a moderator, refer to the Tribunal and the Tribunes will judge your case.
They can be identified by the following badge:

Content

Content Staff are members of Total War Center who are dedicated to providing quality content including articles, interviews, reviews, art, competitions and news.
They can be identified by the following badges:

Content Artists

The Art staff are a branch of Content Staff dedicated to making and improving the site's graphics. In addition they are able to provide art for TWC members on request, including sigs, userbars, badges, and banners. See the Graphics Workshop here

The Writers' Study & Critic's Quill

The Writers' Study runs a range of weekly and monthly competitions, in addition to regularly encouraging all forms of creative writing. The Writers' Study staff are also responsible for the Critic's Quill, which produces articles related to the creative writing that has been submitted to the Writers' Study. View the Writers' Study here and the Critic's Quill here

The Eagle Standard

The Eagle Standard staff write articles on everything relating to TW games and mods. The articles range from game reviews to modding news, reviews and previews, occasional interviews with modders and, of course, reports on the annual TWC Modding Awards! View the Eagle Standard here

The Helios

The Helios staff write articles and reviews about anything connected with history. They provide reviews of historical TV shows and history books, academic analysis and personal reflections on the subject of historical eras and events. Read the Helios here.

The News Team

The News Team produces TWC's Front Page Announcements. They promote Total War games mods and modding tools found on TWC and elsewhere, as well as announcing other items that might be of interest to TWC members. View the latest announcements on the front page.

The Picture & Video Competitions

The Picture & Video Competition Director runs three weekly Picture competitions for edited and non-edited screenshots from Total War and non-Total War games. In addition, there is a monthly Total War Video Competition. If competitions do not particularly interest you, feel free to visit anyway to share your screenshots and perhaps get tips n' tricks. Visit the forum here.

The Scriptorium

Librarians decide on the content of the Scriptorium and are the general custodians of the archives of TWC. As such, they are constantly looking around the forums in search of good articles, worthy of submission to The Scriptorium. View the forum here.

The TWC Facebook Team

Keeping you connected to all your Total War News 24/7! Follow TWC here

The TWC Store

At the official Total War Center Shop you can get gear featuring official TWC logos and artwork, as well as art from some of your favorite mods. Each item you purchase puts $2 towards the support of TWC. Funds received from this store will be used to maintain and run TWC. This includes server maintenance, hosting, various software licenses, and prizes and competitions.

The TWC Twitter Team

Bringing Total War and Total War Center to the unwashed Twitter masses 140 characters at a time! Follow here

The TWC Wiki Team

The Wiki Team adds content and updates the Wiki on subjects including; the Total War games, mods, modding and the TWC Forum itself. The team also supervise contributions made to the Wiki by other forum members. You are here!

The University

The University takes care of organizing and running courses based on varying subjects; while modding related stuff is usually more common, you can find there courses about history, language or misc subjects as well. Anyone can become a Professor: all that you need to have is an interesting course and some students for your class! View the forum here

Downloads

The TWC Downloads section allows members to upload and access small (max 100 MB) mods, tools and resources etc.

The listed member is the one who you can ask questions about the section as well as report errors, dead/wrong links, wrong file size, and if needed, ask for advice about the file uploading or updating process.

Gaming & Awards

Gaming Staff are responsible for operating the official TWC Gaming aspects of the website. They are also responsible for running the annual Site Awards and the General Competitions.
They can be identified by the following badges:

Play by Post RPGs

The Play-by-Post RPG Gaming Staff is responsible for overseeing the TWC Play-by-Post Community Section, promoting a friendly atmosphere, helping in the creation of roleplays and aiding in, not only forum moderation, but game moderation. The Gaming Staff also helps in moderating the community's discord server and ensuring that the same guidelines on the forum are applied there as well. Visit the forum here

Total War Hotseats

The Hotseat Gaming Staff are responsible for overseeing the Total War Hotseat Section and ensuring that the sections remains a friendly environment where anyone can feel welcome participating in the multiplicity of different hotseats available on Total War Center. Additionally, Gaming Staff are responsible for running official tournaments and the different official hotseat series in addition to numerous other hotseat games on various mods and submods. Visit the forum here

Post of the Fortnight Competition

The Post of the Fortnight Gaming Staff is responsible for setting up the Nominations and Voting threads within the PotF Competition; they also keep the Leaderboard and Anthology threads updated. PotF Competition is aimed at promoting quality posting within the Discussion and Debated area of the Forum; it has been created and set up following the Proposal which was originally developed within the Curia. Visit the forum here

The Total Guess Competition

The Total Guess Competition Gaming Staff is mainly responsible for registering the Competition Points within the various TGC games; they also keep the Leaderboard updated. TGC was created on an idea originally discussed within the Question and Suggestion Forum and it's intended to reward those who are regular players of the various Guess/Name/Identify games around TWC. Visit the TGC thread here

Site Awards

Yearly Site Awards are dividend into two different groups, Members and Modding. Such awards are managed by a Hexagon Administrator, but differently from the other activities in the Gaming and Competitions, they are run by two separate Committees which are not necessarily made up of Staffers or Citizens (though normally most of them are indeed Staffers from other departments, or Citizens). Everybody is welcomed to apply for a position within such Committees.

- TWC Modding Awards: These Awards are meant to reward worthy mods (including tools and resources) and modders (including tools and resources makers) hosted or anyways present at TWC. The Modding Awards have been held since 2005 and have evolved as the TW games (and their popularity and moddability) evolved themselves over the time. They originated as a Curial activity (with the supervision of Administration), but since 2014 edition they are managed directly by the Awards Hexer with the support and work of the Modding Awards Committee. Visit the Modding Awards forum here

- TWC Member Awards: These Awards are meant to reward all the worthy TWC members, as nominated and voted by the TWC membership itself. They include categories ranging from the Best Debater up to the Favorite Staff member, and they have evolved over the years as the site and its community evolved itself. First edition was held on 2005 and it originated as a Curial activity, but since 2013 edition they are managed directly by the Awards Hexer with the support and work of the Member Awards Committee. Visit the Member Awards forum here

Hexagon Council Awards

Those awards are handed out at the discretion of Administration. They are the Milestone Award, the Survivor Award and the Laurel Cluster. See the complete list with descriptions here