British are too easy, the french have too few enemies close enough to be a major threat, Spanish, I hate the language so why would I play them. For me Prussia is the only faction I enjoy playing. They sadly get only one unique unit and its the last infantry unit you can get, and it's basically identical to their Austrian counter part all but model and design. Despite that it is one of the hardest factions to play as starting out, but as one person told me, once you get them going they are a steam roller, unite all of Germania and you are a now nearly unstopable economic power. If you want to take over the world as can hold out during those early times when everyone seems to one to destroy Prussia you can make one can be considered the worlds most powerful Super Power, Britian feared a unification of the Central nations in real life and that is what Prussia's goal is on the game. Basically its the hardest nation to start as, but one of the most powerful to end as if you survive all these border nations who go to war with you after the first few turns. Taking all the central powers is very difficult since all the smaller factions all have one large starting army. Prussia starts with two mild size armies but your nation is split in two without any means of reinforcing eachother, going to war with Poland = going to war with 4 nations right off the bat so to speak, so your at war with Denmarck which will blockade all your ports, Saxony to the south of Berlin, some nation I always forget to the north of Prussia and poland to the south of Prussia, very bad situation I lost one time because Austria later joined in at the same time as Hannouver. So basically I was at war with 6 nations 5 of which borded and had good size land armies, I was grounded down to nothing even if I won the battles I couldn't reinforce because I'd be attacked 2-3 times per turn vs just one of my two armies. lol