When people mention Tabletop Strategy games my mind generally goes towards Warhammer and other games involving minatures such as Battletech.

I used to play Warhammer pretty avidly. I played Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer 40,000 Battlefleet Gothic (space battles involving the fleets of various factions from the 40k universe, was pretty cool because you had to think of drift/yaw and torpedo angles), Warhammer - Mordenheim, Warhammer 40,000 Epic extra infothe minatures for this truly were minature. we're talking individual infantry moon models were about 4mm tall. Each army arrayed it's infantry in fire teams of 5 essentially it allowed for bigger scale battles to be fought in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, with 100ft Titans stomping around the battlefield at about 10 inches tall, Warhammer Fantasy (a little of this, mostly I painted armies for people) and Warhammer 40,000 Necromunda (got in to this because of Mordenheim, it essentially played almost the same) I also did the odd game of Warhammer 40,000 based on Space Hulk rules but I never actually took a turn with true Space Hulk.

Warhammer is pretty good fun, I enjoyed it especially the 40k variant and the Mordenheim variants (mostly because the rules stated that for a character/trooper to have wargear assigned that item had to be depicted on the model so I'd have lots of work customizing my models and also still leaving space for extra bits here and there)

For some people, painting the models is the loneliest of chores and they can't wait to be done with it. With others like myself I could spend weeks painting a single squad of soldiers to a perfect level.

I still get the temptation to pick up some models and paints and get myself painting them again at the very least however they cost a fortune and I'm not sure I'm geek enough these days to get away with having such an expensive and childish hobby. Who knows I may one day get sucked back in, I'm just sad that Mordenheim, Epic 40k (was dropped when 40k Apocalypse was released, a set of rules enabling much larger scale battles in full scale models. However Epic's hundreds of infantry, bomber fleets of flyers and hulking titans will still hold a place in my heart), Battlefleet Gothic and Necromunda were all discontinued especially since they were done so for the rather foolish LOTR table top game Citadel made.

I play Risk on the rare time my friends happen to be like "oooh Risk!" however I don't find it anywhere near as tactical as true table top strategies like warhammer and so get bored quickly.