Lines of succession become much more important as you'll need to constantly work to ensure your ruler has the strength of will and the points needed to muscle their way through the uncertain tides of history. It's a relatively small change, but it also means that your strength as a country is often tied to the will of your leader. The political strength of your nation's leader is expressed via "Monarch Points" which can be spent on everything from suppression of political unrest to advancing your level of technological development. For example, as much of the middle ages were dominated by absolute monarchs and powerful political figures, developer Paradox has added a "Monarch Power" system. The possibilities aren't endless, but when you can play as a fledgling Ottoman Empire and conquer Britain by 1500, it can certainly seem like it.Speculative history is the thing to do here, and EU4 takes many of the series' established traits established and builds marvelously upon them.
It is entirely within your power, for example, to take the reins of Louis XIV, start a war with everyone, ride into battle with your foolishly out-of-touch leader as a general, get him killed in battle, convert your France into a more democratic society and avoid the French Revolution – or you could just take over the world. The complexity is a sort of emergent property of those restrictions, and their applications create a myriad of varied scenarios. The Earth is divided into a few hundred "provinces," each holding resources and continually generating more cash and people for you to use for military, exploration, diplomatic influence, religious domination, etc. The real beauty of EU4 comes from the variety of options for play.
Europa Universalis 4, unlike most of its competitors, eschews hand-holding and focuses instead on letting its audience play with a ruthlessly accurate recreation of four centuries of European history. The most popular strategy games manage a delicate balance between complex, nuanced mechanics and keeping new players interested long enough to learn about everything the game has to offer. Of all video game genres, strategy has historically been one of the least accessible.
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