Total War is the best strategy series available for PC

I will be arguing pro, that total war is the best PC strategy series.
Con must prove another series is better to win.
Burden of proof shared equally (The word best is key. If neither side proves their game better, it should be a tie)

1st round acceptance only.
I'm not in the mood for heavy mental lifting, so I'm making this two rounds of short debate, but I think we can still make good points.

Thanks in advance to my opponent for accepting and in anticipation of a good debate.

Ok. I've not played command and conquer, but I've done research on it since your post. However I will not attack it until you've made your points.

To start off, I'll mention the public popularity of the total war series.
Shogun: 9.5 user review average on metacritic. On amazon.com, 87% of reviews are four or five stars.
Medieval: 88 on metacritic, 8.9 on ign, and a 90/100 on Yahoo! Games
Rome: 92 on metacritic, 9.4 on ign
Medieval II: 88 on metacritic and 8.8 on ign
Empire (my favorite): 90 on metacritic, 9.5 + editors' choice on ign
Napoleon: 8.9 on ign
Shogun II: 90 on metacritic, 9.0 + editors' choice on ign

We can see that people love total war and for good reason. Total war games have amazing graphics. My 2008 computer can barely handle the second lowest setting. Moving to game play, total war offers a combination of the best real time battles and amazing turn based game play that is available. Not only is it turn based AND rts, but the two types meld perfectly in-game

To begin: C&C does not garner as good of reviews as total war. On IGN, both Empire and Rome TW rank higher than any C&C game. There are six TW games (ten including expansions) in IGN's top 75 strategy PC games, and one C&C. [1]

C&C may be the "biggest selling RTS" but that is for multiple platforms, not just PC like TW, which is what the resolution refers to. Thus this point is irrelevant. Besides that, sales do not necessarily reflect quality. Transformers movies for example are horrible but rakes in hundreds of millions each.

Of only seven games, less than half of the number of C&C's, 3 have won best strategy game awards, as well as been nominated for best overall game.

Rome TW ranks 6 on the IGN top 100 PC games ever, the best C&C is 77

Also, TW is a better strategy franchise. Whereas the only strategy C&C offers is rts, TW has rts AND turn-based combining the best of both.

TW also has 3 times as many Game of the years since 2004

TW has the best graphics available, C&C doesn't