I realized that I enjoy a specific type of late 1980s, early 1990s-style war game, where you are slowly weakening an enemy base by destroying its defenses one by one. It includes the spiritual predecessor of this game, Zeewolf, but also Fire Power (1987) and its sequel Return Fire (1996), Desert Strike (1992) and its sequels, as well as Carrier Command (1988).
I have dubbed this genre Base Attack.
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