My two favourite strategy franchises are still going, thank God; Civilization and Total War.

I'm a huge strategy fan so I tend to buy most of Paradox's titles as well. I love Victoria, Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis etc...

My favourite strategy game of all time has to be Rome: Total War. That is the first one, not the flop that is #2. Man, that game was epic! I still play it to this day. It's hard to believe CA fucked up so badly with Rome 2 after the masterpiece that was Shogun 2.