I enjoyed this NES, Toasty thought it out well(these are the old type NESs, the ones where it really was a never ending story get a bit stale for me).
It wasn't das who changed it into a true boardgame style, he actually made this style. It was me who changed it into buying units etc(which to be honest I prefer since it gives more realism to it, rather than "I build a tonne of new ships").
As for the UKNES4, I tried to go back towards the more primitive NESs, as I actually really enjoy them.
Nemesis