Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri + Alien Crossfire

Rather than copy paste Terraziel list plus a good chuck of console/handheld strategy games I'll just say that his list pretty much applies to me as well.

Personal favourites would included Dark Reign, Imperium Galactica 2, Red Alert and Civilization 2.

there are several others which i know i can not think of the names of Age of Sail

Archon: The Light and the Dark
Axis & Allies
Clash of Steel
Battleground: Ardennes
Battleground 2: Gettysburg
Battleground 3: Waterloo
Battleground 4: Shiloh
Battleground 5: Antietam
Battleground 6: Napoleon in Russia
Battleground 7: Bull Run
Battleground 8: Prelude to Waterloo
Battleground 9: Chickamauga
Battlestations: Midway
Battleship
Castles
Castles II: Siege and Conquest
Sid Meier's Civilization
Sid Meier's Civilization II
Civilization II: Test of Time
Sid Meier's Civilization III
Civilization III: Complete Edition
Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Close Combat
Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far
Colonization
Command and Conquer: Tiberium Dawn
Conquest Earth
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest
Empire
Empire Deluxe
Fantasy Wars
Dungeon Keeper II
carriers at war
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War
Great Naval Battles 1
Gary Grigsby's War in Russia
Great Naval Battles 2
Great Naval Battles 3
Great Naval Battles 5
Fields of Glory
Fleet Command
Galactic Civilizations
Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
gazillionaire
Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars
Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia
Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death
Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Wake of Gods
Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Heroes of Might and Magic IV: The Gathering Storm
Heroes of Might and Magic IV: The Winds of War
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff
lost admiral
grandest fleet
Harpoon series
Harpoon
Harpoon II
Harpoon Classic
Harpoon III
Harpoon 3 Professional
Harpoon 3: Advanced Naval Warfare
Imperialism
Imperium
King's Bounty
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Realm II
Master of Orion
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
Master of Orion III
Panzer General
Allied General
Pacific General
Panzer General II
Star General
Fantasy General
Sid Meier's Gettysburg!
Sid Meier's Antietam!
Space Hulk
Syndicate
Syndicate: American Revolt
Syndicate Wars Medieval: Total War: Viking Invasion
Rome: Total War
Powermonger
perfect general
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle
X-COM: Apocalypse
Pax Galaxia
Reach for the Stars
Scorched 3D
Scorched Earth
Warlords I-IV Worms
Worms
Steel Panthers
Silent Hunter
Worms 2
Worms Armageddon
Worms 3D
X-COM: Apocalypse

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire

Age of Empires II- great game with a solid map creator
Civ 4- Very fun to play with the Fall From Heaven Mod
Star wars: Empire at War- Its just fun to be darth vader
Gal Civ- First Game i started modding
(Normally i like the old school rpgs if you do check out http://www.fantasyanime.com/index.htm )

The list is too long so I will only the list the few that I play regularly in the last year:

Company of Heroes (vCOH)
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (COH:OF)
Sins of a Solar Empire

The Total War games (Medieval, Viking Invastion, Rome, Medieval 2, etc.) are good as well but you need the realism mod's to make them worthwhile strategy games. Otherwise they are too easy.

The Sid Meir Alpha Centauri/Alien Crossfire are great games that I reinstall every once in a while.

LOL for the guys who mentioned the original Populous!

And for something different, a great strategy board game that was reimplemented in Java is an old Avalon Hill classis called Titan. The open source, free, java clone is called Colossus and can be found here: http://colossus.sourceforge.net/ . Well worth the time to check it out.


Enjoy.

first strategy game i played when i was a young kid was DUNE 2
i played this game the longest besides warcraft 2 that game i really played to death
just liked the story and all.
ok here my list in order

dune2
warcraft2
c&c all games
kknd
homeworld [liked it very much played the camp twice]
conquest frontier wars[good game]
starcraft[liked it]
stronghold all games[still playing
star wars empire at war [foc][still playing]
act of war if you liked c&c generals try this game has a fun single player with campaign[with movies
lotr battle for middle earth
total war all games [looking forward to empire total war]

Games ive played in no order.

Command and Conquer
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
Command and Conquer Tiberium Sun
Command and Conquer Generals
Command and Conquer 3
Dawn of War
Dawn of war Winter Assault
Dawn of War Dark Crusade
Supreme Commander
Company of Heroes
Rise of Nations
Warcraft 3
Medieval Total War
Rome Total War
Medieval 2 Total war
Star Wars Empire at war
Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires 3
Nexus (it's kind of a strategy game)
Black & White 2

you missed dawn of war 2, and C&C red alert 3. Its what I get for not paying enough attention to the lists of sequels.

Though as an aside i have to say this list has made me wonder what peoples lists are like for other genres as well, because i could probably get a list like that for most genres (except sports games, the last sport game I played, and enjoyed, was Mutant League Football on the megadrive).

My games!

Most fun ones:
Battle for Middle Earth (simple, fun, easy to learn and play game)
Sins of a Solar Empire (If I didn't like it, would I be here?)
Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne (Not the actual game, but the map-making community is quite helpful and nice) (Hate DOTA)

Others:
Battle for Middle Earth II (Never really captured my appeal)
Rise of Legends (Would not even work on my computer)
Medieval II, Total War (Worked slowly on my computer) (On a side note, 512 mb RAM with a Vista computer is not happy)
Rise of Nations (Meh, kind of fun)
Age of Mythology and expansion (Was rather fun for me, but xp ate up my ram)
Warcraft 3 (Did not at the time have the community the expansion does)

That's pretty much it. Quite fun games.

Oh, and one more. There was an old rts game for the ps2. It was called Aliens vs Predator: Extinction and was a somewhat fun game, but was burned because of no skirmish mode.

No, the reasons it did poorly overall, was firstly the campaign and story were god-awful and actually a step back from the RoN campaign, the cuotl were grotesquely unbalanced, and the main one was major multiplayer issues which prevented it from 'getting off the ground' so to speak, but even then most of the reviews at the time were much more forgiving than I would have been.

My list is too long!

I started Strategy gaming in 1984 with Imperium Galactum (for the Atari, not the Commie 64).

Gah, I'm old.

I would say DoW is much better than C&C3,especially with the race mods + Soulstorm.Each race in that game is very different from each other.The gameplay is awesome too.

In terms of story line,it suxs but it truely shines in skirmish with the AI Mod.DoW's AI Mod has the best AI i ever seen.It makes Sins one feels like rubbish now.

Anyway,back to topic,my list.It follows chronologically.
-Dune 2(My first RTS,was an idiot that time.Completely clueless in that game)
-C&C(Second RTS,still an idiot.Still clueless)
-Warcraft 1(know how to play a bit)
-Warcraft 2 and it's expansion(didnt play much)
-Red Alert 1
-Starcraft(The first game that i actually play properly.Really enjoy that)
-KKND(love that spam fest game)
-C&C:Tiberium Sun(one of the best C&C,IMO)
-Red Alert 2(another great game in the C&C series)
-Dune 2000(utter crap)
-Emperor:Battle for Dune(pretty decent game)
-Battle Realms(one of the best game i ever played)
-Mech Commander(it rocks too)
-Warcraft 3(didnt really like it)
-C&C Generals(Ugh...)
-Perimeter(didnt play much too)
-Ground Control 2(decent game,crappy ai spoil the whole game)
-Dawn of War(the best game i ever play so far)
-Supreme Commander(rig cant take it,this game crashed my old rig)
-Company of Heroes(decent,due to lack of DoW's melee violence)
-C&C Tiberium Wars(Ugh...)
-World in Conflict(didnt like it)
-Universe of War(decent game but console interface and design spoil it)
-Sins of Solar Empire(one of the best and innovative game i ever play,need better ai)

Good to know that i was not the only one spending insane amounts of time

add the following games that i didnt see (or overlooked) here

-Imperium (Amiga)
-Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Amiga)
-Renegade Legion Interceptor (Amiga)
-The old Battle Isle games (1 + expansion , 2 + expansion, history line, 3 (shadow of empire) (Amiga+PC)
-Balance of power (Amiga)
-Command HQ (old PC)
-Supremacy (Amiga)
-Frontmission 3 (PS1)
-MAD / mutually assured destruction (PC)
-Spellcross (old PC - but winXP patch from devs are online !)
-Final Liberation (old PC)
-Shattered union (PC) <- Northamerican Civil War in modern times with EU and Russian invasion - easy game, nice graphics, good for beginners, multiplayer
-Strategic Command 1 (PC)

my alltime favorite is still Master of Orion 2