[dogscoff]

IMHO a good wargame recreates the uncertainty of conflict and the ability to make bad choices. Standard SEIV has done a very good job of this for a wargame, but the proportions mod takes it even a step further.

Agreed. I would put it another way and say that Proportions takes SEIV and pushes it even further from being simply a wargame into the territory of "empire simulator".