The battle of Mohacs is one of the most pivotal moments of modern history. With the death of Louis II in the rout the Austrian Habsburgs would gain Hungary and Bohemia setting the course for four centuries of Central European politics. Furthermore the death of Louis mean that the Jagellion dynasty would die with his Polish cousins half a cenury later, leading to the formal establishment of the Polish Lithaunian commomnwealth, the rise of the Vasas in Poland, and the dissolution of Royal power. In brief this one battle, this one death, can be said to affect the fate of all Europe east of vienna.
All because a 20 something fell off his horse and drowned.
Seriously. The king didn't even get to die fighting.
So let us suppose that history is kinder to our beleaguered Louis. Whilst a victory at Mohave is not likely (though not impossible) merely keeping Louis alive- by keeping him firmly in the saddle in the rout- is a small but immensely potent PoD,in and of itself. Let us say that Louis escapes alive though defeated, frustrated by the Hungarian nobility's failure to accept that the middle ages were over. Of course the young king sires an heir with his wife- and assuming Poland goes as Otl when Ladislaus ii dies childless in 1572 the king (or his son) of Hungary Bohemia and Croatia inherits Poland and the Grand Duchy of lithuania...
As a side note Russian time of Troubles started about two decades after that.
What does this look like? Can this Frankenstein of an empire last?
All because a 20 something fell off his horse and drowned.
Seriously. The king didn't even get to die fighting.
So let us suppose that history is kinder to our beleaguered Louis. Whilst a victory at Mohave is not likely (though not impossible) merely keeping Louis alive- by keeping him firmly in the saddle in the rout- is a small but immensely potent PoD,in and of itself. Let us say that Louis escapes alive though defeated, frustrated by the Hungarian nobility's failure to accept that the middle ages were over. Of course the young king sires an heir with his wife- and assuming Poland goes as Otl when Ladislaus ii dies childless in 1572 the king (or his son) of Hungary Bohemia and Croatia inherits Poland and the Grand Duchy of lithuania...
As a side note Russian time of Troubles started about two decades after that.
What does this look like? Can this Frankenstein of an empire last?