Reinstalling: A Total War Aficionado’s Story

[Gaius Baltar]

Authors Note: I actually started this blog many years ago, but it was inactive for so long it was closed. I thought I would give it a chance once again now that time has passed. There is quite a bit of material to cover, so it may be easier to outline the process in this post. I have started with an outline of my TWC biography. In reality, that started years before I actually joined the board. I was here as an unregistered member, looking for mods to download for the original Medieval Total War and Rome Total War.

I intend to flesh out these original chapters before moving on to more recent material.

What I have here in the first 5 chapters is the original material I developed back in ancient times. These pages are account of my discovery and initial experience with the Total War games, starting with Medieval Total War and Viking Hordes excellent mod and my eventual journey to the Total War Center. This encompasses a 2003-2006 time frame.

Chapter 1 - The Beginning of my Total War Experience

Chapter 2 - .deadringer.

Chapter 3 - Rome Total War

Chapter 4 - Mundus Magnus

Chapter 5 - Registering at TWC and Beta Testing of RTW Mods

Chapter 6 - Citizenship and the Curia

Chapter 7 - Helios and the Eagle Standard

Chapter 8 - Medieval Total War II

Chapter 9 - Empire Total War

Chapter 10 - The Release of Rome II

Chapter 11 - A Long Slumber

Chapter 12 - Rediscovery - Thrones of Britannia



TWC Biography and Timeline (dates are approximate)

[January 2003] - Purchased Medieval Total War at Staples. Played some initial battles.

[June 2005] - purchased Rome Total War at Game Stop.

[March 2006] - Member at Total War Center. Player and RTW Mods beta tester.

[June 2006] - Citizen and the House of Wilpuri

[October 2006 – June 2007] The Helios

[September 2006 – June 2007] Eagle Standard

[October 2006] – Elected to the Second Council of Peace and the Council of War

[October 2006] - Black Friday

[October 2006] The House of Baltar

[November 2006] Medieval War II Mods and Beta Testing

[January 2007] – Staff Revolt

[April 2007] Blog

[May 2007] Curial Committee for the Expansion of TWC

[April 2008 – November 2008: September - November 2009] POTW and UESW competitions

[2008 - 2011] - The Eagle Standard

[2011] Scriptorium

[2018] Returning for Thrones of Britannia

[2018] The Helios

[2018] Temporary Censor

[2018] Curators Assistant

[2018] Coup by Censure: A Tyrant Arises

[2018] Modding Staff

[2019] Fall of the Curia

[2019] Praefect

[2019] Site Upgrade

[2019] Three Kingdoms release in May 2019

[2019] June 2019 - Primus Praefect

[2020] The House of Baltar Revisted

[2020] The Growing Shadows - Decay of TWCenter.net

[2021] Rome Remastered - Fiasco

[2021] Censor

[2021] Magistrate

[2022] Magistrate

[2023] Magistrate

[2024] Consul

[2024] The Civil War and Consul Baltar

[2024} A Sudden Change

Constitutional Amendments

- POTW and AAR competitions.
- POTW and AAR Medal Competitions
- Modding Vault
- The WUB censor amendment attempts