Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7257730-20130401130901/@comment-7257730-20130405025658

Although Europe is a far larger thing than the Iberias & Constantinople, please note some things Lordganon...

As long as Constantinople is still in Byzantine hands, the Italians will still trade there. (esp. Venetians and Genoans, of course)

At that time, the French and English are still fighting the hundred years war.

Germany is still, very much in the form of Loose Confederation of HRE, torn by intrigues between the Luxemburg, Bohemian, and the rising Habsburg, and not to mention, the Hussites.

The North Sea-farers of Kalmar and Hanseatic Leagues are still comfortable with their own, and still thinking about how the ongoing war between Poland-Lithuania and the Teutonic Order may effect them.

And, the most adventurous nation of The Seventeen United Provinces that we now called the Dutch were still un-born yet, not even in any thought of becoming a nation, as their struggle and idea of independence came when Burgundian Lands south of them came into Habsburg control (Under Emperor Charles V) which will still take another 3 generations after the first PODs come.

At that time, nobody except Portugal advocates a Naval Adventure. Even if Portugal is not wiped out and they moved to England where they can have some kind of "government in refuge", they'll manage it to be hard, as now they must begin from zero-ground again, with England will be compromising nothing but Land and Protection as they were still engaging France at that time.

It is not that impossible after all.