These Beys jockey for a position between the expanding power of the Ottomans on one side, and the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria, still the strongest state in the Middle East, on the other. In the east, Ottoman control has been reimposed in the aftermath of the Timurid invasion, but several beyliks remain independent. this actually happend (more than less, details are irrelevant) and there was no AE spreading across the world.The Ottomans in 1444 are a regional power, in the process of securing control over Anatolia and the Balkans. There was however major interest conflict between sweden, poland-lithuania, russia, part of HRE over these lands. Anyway conflict of interests is not an AE factor, cause AE should simulate fear of rapidly expanding country, and bunch of rocks and trees in the verge of europe is NOT rapid expansion. (In 15th century eastern europe, or eastern baltic coast were really poorly populated, and infrastrcture was also rather bad.)Īnd btw. Note: I hope I wrote it all in readable english -) * numbers may not represent real statistics and are based on media and social media, but I think they are accurate So HOW is this even remotly realistic to scared the hell out of 99% Europe in +_ 1500 ? even today with internet and all comunications going, 3/4 of europe and 90%* of the world is not giving a single f*ck about russian aggresion in georgia, crimea/ukraine, and all of these conflicts scattered across the world.

I think AE and coalitions are necessary, but their scope as it is is currently wayy too big. AE should affect your immediate neighbors/regions much, much more than anywhere else, so the result would be a coalition of your neighbors arrayed against your advance rather than some random mishmash of European countries. To take an example, if you expand rapidly in the Balkans as Ottomans you should ideally get dogpiled by Eastern Europe, Germany, bits of Italy and the Caucasus. Not Denmark, England, France or even Spain (if Spain wants to get into the war they should be Defender of the Faith, like what they basically were OTL).īefore you mention it, I'm sure somebody here can trawl up an example in history where the Ottomans were 'coalitioned' by Western Europe (i.e.

But that ignores the fact that EUIV cannot simulate logistical challenges. An Ottoman coalition war will see France send in 40k troops to the Balkans, which simply did not happen in real life.

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