Christian Victory at Varna, 1444

Definitely to be considered.

Could the Ottomans be more easily defeated during their interregnum from 1402-1413? This question is mainly addressed to Snake Featherston.

Hello!

Logically, yes, but... it need a battle of nikopol won by Sigismund, otherwise like OTL, Sigismund somehow lose his enthusiasm to face the turks.
Barely escaping with his life, its understandable.

But, making Sigismund victorious, thus practically the whole crusade victorious would put the turks into deep trouble some 5-6years earlier, trouble deep enough to butterfly away the whole Timur-Bayezid misunderstanding :)

Conclusion: I dont think so.

Oh, and the armed mobs nonsense: strawman.
While the janissaries were well above average quality, they were no terminators and were not that numerous.
The numerous ones were the asabs - imagine a press-ganged vlach peaseant, and you got it.Except he dont fear his superiors that much.
 
So that battle has to be won...
How do we dispose of the reckless french heroism and/or the pro-Ottoman Stefan Lazarević?
Maybe the latter should be assasinated on the eve of the battle?
And John Hunyadi is yet to be born, so we don't have an excellent commander...
 
So that battle has to be won...
How do we dispose of the reckless french heroism
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You cannot. But If somehow about half of the "big names" dies, late, or just simply not present, maybe they can bullied to submission.


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and/or the pro-Ottoman Stefan Lazarević?

He was pro-lazarevic. Bribe him. Bribe him good.

Maybe the latter should be assasinated on the eve of the battle?
And John Hunyadi is yet to be born, so we don't have an excellent commander...

Hunyadi is not necessearry -he was good, but he was no Napoleon. Good and above average commanders could be found. The tricky part is to get rid of the awful ones,
 
I want the PoD to be as small as possible. Do you think that only bribing Lazarevic would still win the battle for the christians?
I've read that they were getting close to victory when the Serbian Cavalry charged.

Edit: Does anyone has any knowledge on how the Europeans tried to stop the Ottoman to ferry their troops to the Balkans?
Were they using only ships or did they try to destroy them while disembarking?
 
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