I started a game as Spain and noticed right away that king Carlos II is much worse than in vanilla. He has -5 to management and -5 to prestige. But the weird thing is that he has a trait that supposedly gives him 100% chance of dying at the end of the turn, and he's 139 years old! But, he isn't dying. My Carlos just turned 140. As a joke, it's really bad. This is supposed to be Empire Realism. Carlos II was quite easy to live with in vanilla, drooling and all. Here, it ruins Spain as a faction.