I need a game reccomendation

[johnhughthom]

I looked at Brytenwalda but I couldnt figure out what the mod changed.

What doesn't it change, it's full conversion akin to how different EB is from vanilla RTW (actually more so as it isn't even in the same setting as vanilla). I would recommend you just play vanilla to get used to it, the difficulty shoots up with Brytenwalda and PoP, or use the Diplomacy mod which only adds small features (Staff to help run your realm etc) to the game and is part of pretty much every major mod out there.