Yeah we can do this for now with the release of beta. But for the full release we can attempt to find some leader heads out there (I know DVS was working on some already).
As for the civs, if we want to cut back, then I think its best to go back to our original list (the one before you came Ka
).
EDIT: Actually, I kind find the original one, looking through the forums
. So I guess we can try to keep all the civs we have now (I know a lot of the new ones don't have UU's or UB's, so we can just borrow some from the original civs in civ 4, or we can just leave them blank until we've beta tested a little).