Well, I don't have anything to compare strat round 4 with, but so far I enjoy it quite a lot.
We're getting a lot of battles recently, Uxkhal is under siege everyday and so on, and with further conquers of anti-UIF we're gonna have tons of fun with these great sieges before UIF falls.
I prefer this much more than a boring cold war, even if we're gonna lose it in the end, who cares.