your favorite strategy game

Shogun 2 and Generals/Zero Hour.

CnC series

if you can count Final Fantasy Tactics.. then this is my favorite game.

lord of the rings: battle for middle-earth I and II, cause it's lotr :P

The Internet, but it gets quite repetative.

Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2 obviously

Total Annihilation. But I'm looking forward Planetary Annihilation now. :D

total annihilation ftw

EU3 and Rome and Medieval 2 Total war

Age of Empires (Gold), Civilization II.
Best games ever.

Definitely Master of Magic.

Advance wars

Anyone ever played Desperados? Nice, hard strategy game!
Also Age of Empires 2, Civilization V, XCOM and Company of Heroes!

Don't know if anyone else said it already, probably yes, but here are mine favorites.

My favorite strategy game is Age of Empires 2. But my favorite gameS are: Age of Empires 1 + Rise of Rome, Age of Empires 2 + Conquerors, Age of Mythology + Titans, C&C: Zero Hour and Generals.

My favorites would be: Final Fantasy Tactics, Dungeon Defenders, Defense Grid, Orcs Must Die.
C&C: Generals and Age of Mythology were pretty good as well.