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[Phantom]

Joint Task Force (?)
Several Flash Games.
Cuban Missile Crisis (?)

[Demonic Spoon]

Edit: Thought I'd add some games I've played. You don't have to use these as a base for suggestions, I'm just including them so you know what I haven't played already.
Starcraft, Warcraft 2 & 3 + expansions, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, Age of Empires 2 & 3, some of Age of Mythology, Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, Black and White 1 & some of 2, and definitely others I can't remember.

Starcraft and its expansion Broodwar

[MrWiggles]

Edit: Thought I'd add some games I've played. You don't have to use these as a base for suggestions, I'm just including them so you know what I haven't played already.
Starcraft, Warcraft 2 & 3 + expansions, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, Age of Empires 2 & 3, some of Age of Mythology, Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, Black and White 1 & some of 2, and definitely others I can't remember.

Starcraft and its expansion Broodwar

I can quote to.

Then something about how seconding someone else opinion wasn't barred and generally isnt looked down upon or when posting redundant information in a suggest thread was bad.

[Zai]

Sword of the Stars isn't an RTS but it is awesome though.

This. The background (and good lordy there is a lot) for each race is quite nice. Including expansions (which are a must), there's 6 races. So there's 6 races with good backstory, and 6 different overall ways to play the game. It's a turn based 4X game. However, battles are realtime. But there's no story for you to follow as you play, unless you make one up as you go (which a number of people do, documenting it like a Let's Play or a Community DF game). There's also several mods for it, and you can make your own easily enough.

[inteuniso]

I would definitely go with Dawn of War, or Dark Crusade. Dark Crusade probably is the best out of the original DoWs.

Some other game choices could be:
Company of Heroes
Submarine Titans (an old favorite)
Command & Conquer: Tiberium Sun
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
World In Conflict
Sins of A Solar Empire

CoH has probably some of the best WWII gameplay. The first expansion is good, from what I've heard, but not the second one. SoASE has some of the best 4x RTS action out there. If you don't mind turn-based strategy, I would highly recommend GalCiv II and it's expansions. That game is amazing.

[Sean Mirrsen]

If we can stretch the definition of "RTS" that far, I'd say Sacrifice. The story is very interesting, but the whole thing is more of a 3rd-person action rather than an actual RTS, even though you do build bases and produce units and such.

And yes, Submarine Titans. I liked that one.
There's also Netstorm, but it's more interesting due to its gameplay and setting rather than the story.

[Jerimy]

Homeworld and Sword of the Stars, the former especially. Or at least I hear.

I second Homeworld. I've beaten the campaign at least a dozen times, and I still love it to death. Story-wise, it's by far the best RTS I've ever played.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Sins of a Solar Empire has no campaign mode nor does it have a story beyond the initial intro explaining why everyone's trying to kill each other.  It's alot of fun for the first couple games, but there just isn't enough variety in the gameplay to keep it interesting over the long term.  At least for me.

Original War has a cool story and usual gameplay.  Every soldier is an actual character with their own abilities and they can level up.  Of course if they die they're gone and you've got one less soldier.  Also, aside from several major ones most of the soldiers in the game don't actually have any personality.  That's just because there are dozens though.

Men of War and it's predecessors are pretty awesome gamplaywise.  The campaigns are great even if their stories aren't anything spectacular.

Total Annihilation is an awesome awesome game with awesome awesome music.  Best Music in any game ever!  Also while the story isn't very overbearing, it's enough to give direction to the campaign missions, which are pretty good.

Homeworld is great as has already been said.

Metal Fatigue has a cool story and good campaign/gameplay, though good look finding it anywhere.  It also has a tendency to CTD at infrequently but seemingly at random.

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms apparently has a good story, but I never went very far into it.  I got bored of it not being anything like TA.

Battle Realms is kinda cool if you can find it.

Conquest: The Frontier Wars doesn't really run well on my computer for some reason, but it's got an interesting story for as far as I got.  It did RTS with 4X elements long before SoaSE too.

Mech Commander and it's sequel are good, though they're more like Men of War in that you can't build units, just get reinforcements from time to time.  Not even sure those really count as RTS games. MC games have live action cut scenes, and the acting isn't too shabby.

Also good, are several other ones already mentioned.

[DJ]

The original Stronghold had quite good mission design.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Homeworld cannot be mentioned enough.

[Bluerobin]

Haha ok then. I was focusing on trying to find Dawn of War quickly, but apparently I'm shifting to Homeworld. Thanks for all of the suggestions everyone, I was surprised how many games I recognized but hadn't played yet.

[Akigagak]

GalCiv2: TotA. Awesome AI and outside of the actual campaign it's great, but the campaign is just good, if slightly tiring after a while..

[Antioch]

if you only played age of wonders shadow magic, I recommend that you play the original Age of Wonders, it has a really great story.

GalCiv2: TotA. Awesome AI and outside of the actual campaign it's great, but the campaign is just good, if slightly tiring after a while..

I never get what people like so much about CalCiv2, everything in it seems medicore to me: medicore combat, economy, research etc, the only good part seems to be the AI.......

[ILikePie]

EA just released C&C Tiberian Sun for free. I've heard the story is great, I still haven't played through it though.

[Jack A T]

Joint Task Force (?)

That game was...interesting, to say the least.

It was an okay real-time tactics game, if you don't mind terrible voice acting and failing certain missions in one minute on easy for no apparent reason.