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Europa Universalis series. Specially EU2. I loved maps, changing borders. It was perfect when I was young. Still love Paradox games.

Why your contributor value demands so evil? $65.98 here ;_;

So close...

It's hard to say, I love all strategy games. Among my favorites though are Xcom EU, the command and conquer series, company of heroes, the original medieval total war, the original empire earth, and anything turn based such as final fantasy. and if you'd consider time management a form of strategy, my absolute favorite strategy game, which also is turn based; Persona 3 FES

Pax imperia: Eniment domain i guess. The onlu game which i keep replaying time to time.

Warcraft III. It was a game when Blizzard was THE real Blizzard, a good sequence to Warcraft Universe lore, nice single player, matches were short but intense, heroes gives a great array of strategies.

Totalwar , complex tactical maneuver , , what not to like (beside the lastest one....god...think about it make me depress again)

My favorite strategy game will always be Total Annihilation.It was the first game of its kind and still has yet to be matched of its kind. Not even Supreme Commander 1 could match it. Planetary Annihilation is look at as the possible spiritual successor to Total Annihilation,but in truth Supreme Commander was and yet failed to be a fully fledged one.

Total Annihilation had everything I wanted that hardly anyone did, it had sci-fi,robots, large scale battles,all the major forms of military structure we use today but in a futuristic form. Even though it did not have much story, the story of how the Core and the Arm came to be itself was more than enough.

Ok, here comes a good list.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/500/details/Civil.War.II
soon out, the first was just badass

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/368/details/Close.Combat:.The.Longest.Day
the best of the close combat serie imho, tactical thought, but few of you guys seem to know the difference so whatever :-)

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/377/details/Command.Ops:.Battles.from.the.Bulge.
latest of the command ops serie

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/483/details/Command:.Modern.Air.Naval.Operations
soon out, the successor to
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/325/details/Larry.Bond%27s.Harpoon.-.Commander%27s.Edition
the difference between the two is mindblowing, if you can go for command modern air naval operations

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/317/details/Norm.Koger%27s.The.Operational.Art.of.War.III
a classic, not my favourite, but has the advantage of being very modulable

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/396/details/Revolution.Under.Siege.
the only game where you can play the white russians as far as i know

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/476/details/Rise.Of.Prussia.Gold
another ageod game, be warned that they all differ not just in subject but also in style, obviously you don't play the russian revolution the same way you play the american civil war.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/351/details/War.in.the.Pacific.-.Admiral%27s.Edition
MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE, there can be no praise enough for that game, one of the best games ever made. Only recommended to those who know what the word strategy really means and already have some experience thought.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/372/details/Gary.Grigsby%27s.War.in.the.East:.The.German-Soviet.War.1941-1945
a game that makes excellent use of manoeuver and encirclement.

http://www.hpssims.com/
has excellent games as well, but very inequal, i definitely recommend
http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/Products/pzc/pzc_smolensk/PZC_smolensk.html
for the experience of playing a game while constantly retreating as the russian, really a unique experience,

http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/Products/RifMusk/Penninsula/penninsula.html
Is also an excellent choice

They have plenty of games so make your choice.

http://www.navalwarfare.net/steam&iron.html
is excellent for those who want naval warfare if harpoon and the upcoming command air naval operations are not enough

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,10.0.html
is the best space 4x around if you prefer deepness to graphics ( like a real strategist should )
and it's a FREE GAME

http://www.histwar.com/
is good if you like napoleon ( ageod and hps have some titles as well )

and as a bonus, not a strategy games, but any strategist will love it,
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
it's a FREE GAME btw

now yes, i played all the total war since the first one the day it came out, and all the paradox games since europa universalis 2 came out, but seriously, if you talk strategy and not graphics, then this here is way better.

Have fun.

Civ IV: BTS closely followed by X-com (the original 1994 one).

Red Alert 2, or RA3 with The Red Alert installed.

For me it'd be either Homeworld, Sacrifice, or the original X-Com - UFO Defense. All three are a bit older, but amazing.

Civilization V. I can play it endlessly.

Axis & Allies

WC3 for sure, felt like a great mix of strategy and rpg

Command & Conquer the original because sandbags > computer AI XD

age of empires 1 because is my first strategy game AND command and conquer red alert 2 because is fking amazing

Warcraft series! Just the best strategy series evar!
First game i evar played was "Warcraft: Orcs & Humans" on a very very old Macintosh.
Still have have it on my iBook Clamshell along with Doom and Diablo.

stronghold

Europa Universalis 3 or Crusader Kings 2. Basically because I love empire building much more than fighting tactical battles.

love them all

Panzer General

Spent a looot of time playing that in the nineties.

An interesting tidbit: the game needed to load a couple hundred files at start, which - at the time - meant you had to wait for a solid minute for the hard drive to do its job. Norton Cache was magical and cut the loading time to several seconds (SmartDrive wasn't so successful). You see, kids, back in 1994, if you didn't have Norton Utilities and had autoexec.bat run Norton Commander, you'd be laughed at.

A less interesting, but very sad tidbit: there is now a Panzer General Online, and they're slowly sending codes for the closed beta. I got in the beta, but it crashes my entire computer through the browser, even though it should be a pure HTML/JS game.

Command anc Conquer Generals

Starcraft

Warcraft 3 + TFT

Rise of nations