[jld89]

You should totally try Europa Universalis IV for some realPolitik. "The Spanish empire's colonies are profiting from my policing in the caribbean sea, let's make a trade embargo to make them pay."

CKII is really good as well, both are different dishes. I've dumped at least 500 h on each.

[goda90]

And you can buy a converter DLC that takes a CKII save file that's reached the end of the timeline and convert it to a EU IV save file at the beginning of the timeline.