Strategy Games

What are your favourite Strategy (RTS) games/RTS games that you are playing now?

My favourites of all time are:

C&C (all - especially Tiberian Sun and RA)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Cossacks (all)
Rome Total War (great if you like large battles - gets a bit repetitive, however)
Starcraft: Brood War
Warcraft 3

There are some new ones coming out soon, like Medieval 2 Total War, which looks like it will be excellent.

I am not currently playing any RTS at the moment, although I will be starting again soon.

I like at the Moment:

C&C (Tiberian Sun and RA)
Rome Total War (great if you like large battles - gets a bit repetitive, however)
Starcraft
SimCity 4 Rush Hour
Age of Empires III (Expansion Packs Please

)
Earth 2160

I really can't wait for Spore, and Medieval 2 Total War.

Rome Total War is repetitive, but SimCity 4 Rush Hour? The possibilites are endless, its amazing, the grahics are still not bad for the size of city you can make (DX 8.1), it's one of the most accurate simulators, everything you would get in a city's economy, from Land Desirability to EQA Ratings; its got it, and there are compex mathematical simulations going on, its not just for show, it's actually quite hard to suceed without cheats, although I think i've mastered it, I wanted a SimCity 5 but Spore will be more than enough for me

SimCity 4 Ruhh Hour enables you to drive around the city and do many missions, you make the city, but if you've built it you'd think you remember the routes, but its hard! It helps you find mistakes you made down on the ground, you can interview residents to see what they want, you can bomb strikers, put in a Missile Testing Range, Toxic Waste Dump, Area 5.1 (Not 51

), Casino, Everything you can think of (and the Maxis Tounge in Cheek humour is also great.).

Then there's the communities that go with Strategy games, I like them better than FPS/RPG Communities, SimCity 4 for exaple comes with the Building Architect Tool (downloadable) and they still release many offical buildings, and suer-made ones o their site, which are not mods!

Most of what you listed above are RTS's.
Rise of Nations is also goos, and Battlefield.

I can't stand Rise of Nations anymore. It drove me nuts playing it - I still remember being so frustrated with the game, because I had reached a stalemate where neither team could win. I don't think I have ever been so stressed-out in my life (and I usually don't get stressed at all). I had amassed a massive army, which eventually just got killed off. The nuclear shield prevented any nukes being used, and my cruise missiles were all out of range (despite me building them all on my nation's border).

What is Spore? I've heard of it, but I wasn't sure what it would be like.....

I prefer tactical strategy, such as Jagged Alliance 2 or Soldiers:Heroes of WW2

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks lÃƒÆ’Ã†â€™Ãƒâ€ Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â©ike that but I say the RTS games are getting turn into action games.

Take Generals for example. You don't need any strategy to win a battle. If you can rush, you gonna win, this is my experience...

Yeah, that's right to a certain extent. Although if you are cheap and play as the USA Superweapon General, you can just use Auroras because they are unstoppable.

Home Wolrd
Home World Catyclysm
Home World 2
Home World 2 PDS6

I would say Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne. I know the Sims 2 series is a simulation but i think it could be a rts as you gotta have some strategys in order to have a a well made sim house and family.also the concept of having your own bussiness in sims 2 open for bussiness takes strategy in order to be successful. In a way I think all games could be considered strategy related games it takes strategy in all games to beat them. Enough said.