your top ten RTS of all time

10. Rise of Legends

9. Supreme Commander

8. Medieval 2: Total War

7. Age of Empires 2 + Expansion

6. Rise of Nations + Expansion

5. Warcraft 3 + Expansion

4. Company of Heroes

3. Starcraft + Expansion

2. Dawn of War + Expansions

1. Total Annihilation + Expansion

 This takes into account time period to an extent, obviously, and my list will probably differ from most since I never got into the Command and Conquer series, and never played Homeworld or Homeworld 2, which are supposed to be great games.

Top 10 is a bit too much but Starcraft + Broodwar should be my number 1.

1. Dune 2

2. Starcraft

3. Warcraft 2

4. Command and Conqueror Red Alert

5. C&C 3

6. Age of empire 

Hmm...

1. Dawn of War + expansions

2. AOE 2 + expansion

3. Homeworld + expansion 

4. CoH

5. RoN + expansion

6. SC + expansion

7. Rome: TW

8. M2: TW

9. Myth 2

10. Red Alert 

10) Lord of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth

 9) Star Wars Empire at War

 8) Lord of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II

 7) Dawn Of War+Expansion

 6) StarCraft

 5) Command & Conquer Generals+Expansion

 4) Act of War+Expansion

 3) Total War series

 2) Company of Hereos

 1) Supremme Commander 

I think thats it. 

all entries are including expansions where available - and while they are tbs/rts hybrids, i have no problem including total war games

1. dawn of war 

2. medieval: total war

3. starcraft

4. red alert 2

5. medieval 2: total war

6. company of heroes 

7. age of empires 2

8. Z

9. warhammer: dark omen

10. warcraft 3

1. c&c red alert

2. c&c original one

3. supcom

4.c&c3 tiberium wars

5. c&c generals

6. bfme2

1. Starcraft

2. Warcraft 3

3. Command & Conquer Generals

4. Warcraft 2 B.Net Edition

5. Company of Heroes

6. Act of War

7. Command & Conquer 3

8. Impossible Creatures

9. Age of Empires II

10. Empire Earth

1. Red Alert/Red Alert 2

2. Rise of Nations

3. Command and Conquer

4. Rome Total War

5. Age of Empires

1. Homeworld + Cataclysm
2. Company of Heroes
3. Rome: Total War
4. Warcraft III + The Frozen Throne
5. Rise of Nations
6. Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War Dark Crusade
7. Starcraft + Brood War
8. Command and Conquer Red Alert II + Yuri's Revenge
9. Age of Mythology + The Titans
10. Age of Empires II + The Conquerors

i haven't played many. of the ones i played (and finished),

1. starcraft

2. company of heroes

3. warcraft 2

4. warcraft 3

5. warlords: battlecry

still playing opposing fronts, dow series, command & conquer series, sins of a solar empire, and age of empires 1 & 2. whew~! so many games, so little time.

I hate these topics, nobody reads what you list anyway.BounceDK

i read that you hate these topics. so i may have read had you listed your favorites.

My top 5,

1) Dawn of war + Darkcrusade

2) Warcraft 3 + TFT

3) Starcraft + Broodwar

4) C&C Tiberian Sun + FS

5) C&C Red Alert 2 + YR

1. Company of Heroes.

2. Red Alert 2.

3. Command and Conquer 1.

The homeworld games, Dawn of war (not including the expansions), and the Total war games

I hate these topics, nobody reads what you list anyway.BounceDK

lol, ain't that the truth.

1. COH

2. Sins of a solar empire (rts 4x hybrid)

3. M:TW2

4. R:TW

5. DoW: DC

6. DoW

7. Rise of Nations + expansion

8. Warcraft 3

9. Ages of Empire 2

10. Ages of empire Gold edition

Barely touched Starcraft years ago and never played homeworld or C&C .

EDIT : Whoops forgot World in Conflict would be my 5th combine DOW into 6th

1. Company of Heroes

2. Close Combat: Invasion Normandy

3. Warcraft 2

4. Age of Mythology

5. C&C Red Alert

6. AOE2

7. Starcraft

8. Close Combat 3: The Russian Front

9. Total Annihilation

10. Star Wars: Empire at War

1. Starcraft

2. Warcraft 3

3. Homeworld

4. Myth 2

5. CoH

6. Rise of Nations

7. Rome Total War

8. Total Annihilation

9. Myth 1

10. Warcraft 2

11. Dawn of War

1. Rise Of Legends

2. Rise Of Nations

3. World In Conflict

4. COH

5. SOASE

6. Rome: Total War

7. Supreme Commander

8. Act Of War

9. DEFCON

10. Starcraft