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I think that just like Poland at a time, Iberia would have to be balkanised into small duchies for such independent monastic state to emerge.

Why? There would be hot chicks and inevitable comic relief black guy.:D

Well, it's from Magna Mundi game, not vanilla, and it may soon be over for me.;)

Nogai Horde in 1537. Reign of Seydak I brought huge changes to both political and societal system. He conquered Kazani Tatar city of Bolgar, which combined with already possessed Tatar urbanised areas and continuing sedentarisation finally transformed Nogai Horde from purely nomadic to...

Nogai Horde in 1486. Bey Ishey I finished Georgian war started by his father, turning Caucasian kingdom into tributary state. While returning from war he had to crush powerful pretender backed by many nomads to guarantee safe inheritance. Tribal succession crisis happened also in Kazan few years...

Started an AAR if anyone is interested: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?632285-Tale-from-the-Steppe-History-of-Nogais-MMU-AAR

I would start minting at max right after game start, possibly taking loans, recruit as much as possible, hire tons of mercs, and attack Muscovy ASAP. Total victory should cripple them for good.

Next map from my Nogai game. Between 1441 and 1463 Horde managed to conquer Astrakhan - rich Caspian/Volga centre of trade, which turned Nogai into significant power of the steppe region. This made other Khanates vary, and further expansion was halted by their coalition. Talented Timur Bey...

Lack of actual Prussian state makes it difficult. Mieszko I accepted Christianity due to political reasons - why would isolated, fragmented Prussian tribes do so?

Ah, now I get it - thanks.:D

Hmm? Not sure what you mean (AAR will start in 1441 not 1399, after creation of Crimean Khanate).

Not AH map (yet) - just trying some new photoshop techniques: Map will be used for Nogai Horde EU3 (Magna Mundi) AAR.

It pretty much was.

What Shnurre said. During Battle of Orsha in 1514, for example, Muscovites used 150-300 cannons.

So you're claiming that Lvow, or Vilnius had only Jews and Estern Slavs that Polish state treated as Poles, but not actual Poles? Not sure what you're basing that on, but it's BS. Ethnic divide, with exception of Polesie, was quite damn clear, as events such as massacres of ethnic Poles in...

Well, yeah - buttefflies will be pretty significant. Not only would it affect Russia, but also early 20th century, WW1, Bolshevik Revolution etc.

It's the opposite I think. Should Poland avoid fragmentation period after Boleslaw the Wrymouth, it would most likely hold on Silesia and not invite Teutonic Order to Prussia. Mongol devastation and depopulation actually accelerated German migration and in effect, Germanization, not the other...

United Poland (or different political landscape) in early 13th century pretty much butterflies away invitation of Teutonic Order, since they were invited by duke of Masovia, who wasn't powerful enough to deal with Prussians by himself.

In case of Poland royal title was given by the Pope not the emperor.

Germans aren't good comparison, since they were culturally rather homogeneous. Such pan-slavic entity could be compared to pan-romance speaking (France, Iberia, Italy), or pan-Germanic state (England, Scandinavia, Germany), highly unlikely, and even then highly unstable.