Plausibility Check: The Mongols invade the Northern European Plain (and Possibly Beyond)

As much as it is in the tin, how plausible it is that the Mongols could invade the Northern European Plains or other parts of Europe?
 
In my opinion unlikely. It was too fractured, terrible horse country, too fortified and most importantly too poor thus not worth the trouble. Could the Mongols do it if they wanted too? Probably yes. Would they do it? No, I doubt it. Too much trouble for too little to gain.
 
I agree with pompejus. Northern Europe is not worth of conquest and anyway too difficult for using of horses. There is not such resources what Mongols could use and problem is that area is not very good to supply Mongol army.
 
Depends on who the Mongols are and what the invasion window is like; the unified Empire can probably do it. Jochi ulus alone probably cannot (not least becuase it has to preserve strength against other Mongol sub-kingdoms). Unified empire led by Jochikhanids? Not sure, maybe, though potentially not worth it (the amount of encastellation could really be a factor somewhat more than the quality of the castles).

But if you really think Zalesye is better horse country than say, Greater Poland or Lower Saxony, I would ask you to rethink your assumptions. There's nothing inherent to central Europe that makes it unconquerable by the Mongols, other than being really far away from Mongol centres of power.
 
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