bayezid

Your challenge is to have Bayezid I get the better of Timur, rather than the other way around.

With no PoDs prior to the death of Timur the Great (aka Tamerlane) in 1405, how much worse could things have gotten for the young Ottoman Empire? What I'm looking for here is for no Islamic or Middle Eastern power to be a viable threat to Constantinople and Eastern Europe, at least in the 15th...

What if instead of expanding little by little, the Ottomans had a leader with a mindset like Timur, Alp Arslan, or Alexander, who focused little on internal administration and tried to conquer every empire around him? After this leader (perhaps an alternate version of Mehmed II) forges this...