I recently moved up to Emperor. Played with Germany and I have to say, they have taken over as my favorite civ. I like to play with raging barbs on and obviously, this suits the German UA. I will attempt to try that level with some other civs, but I had two of my top 3 scores in my two Germany Emperor games. Love the Hanse too. Part of me was a little sad I never got to use a Panzer, but since I had won by then...I wasn't too brokenhearted. I am sure I will try another game soon as Deutschland. The tweaks made in BNW really helped!