Would this Serbian-Ottoman battle even be possible?

[TheRomanRuler]

Weirdest thing is this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sırp_Sındığı

 

[Lopatou_ovalil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fundina

 

[Lakedaimon]

Don't alarm bells immediatly start ringing when one side has ranges from 20k to 70k (a 50k difference) and the other side is said to have had exactly 800?

 

[vulgarian_guard]

It wouldn't be possible in EU4. I think that it should be, though, just rare. The current battle system (especially in CK2) doesn't represent accurately at all just how uncertain battles were. This is why most wars in almost all of history were fought with sieges. Alexander the great throughout his many campaigns fought only a handful of battles compared to hundreds, possibly a thousand sieges.

EDIT: on second thought, reading some of the comments, maybe the battle was something more like 2,000 vs 20,000 and the 20,000 stack was completely low on morale - a small 100% morale stack wiping a large 0% morale stack definitely can happen in eu4

 

[Dracolithfiend]

Ya Wikipedia is notorious for giving the least likely force estimates. I have seen estimates as crazy as Thermopylae's "300 vs. 2.5 million!" (more likely 3,000 vs 20,000) usually touted by uninformed fanboys who have no knowledge of what is and what is not logistically feasible. Generally assume the numbers are on the lower end of the scale. Look at the battle of Nations and if the ancient armies number more then them then the estimates are. . . . wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes

 

[Thracian]

the only way that would happen was that during the night raid, serbs were unaware, they saw their king's tent was burned down, all of them went into panic and rushed to cross the river and drowned. but why would thousands of them be in steel plate armors during nighttime

 

[lststc315]

800 winning against 70k with 'low' losses? How was that even possible?

Interesting thing is the other language version of this wiki shows the different number of total amount of ottoman's army, vary from 10,000 to 16,000. The loss of ottoman is very low though.

 

[DukeWilleo1630]

Ya Wikipedia is notorious for giving the least likely force estimates. I have seen estimates as crazy as Thermopylae's "300 vs. 2.5 million!" (more likely 3,000 vs 20,000) usually touted by uninformed fanboys who have no knowledge of what is and what is not logistically feasible. Generally assume the numbers are on the lower end of the scale. Look at the battle of Nations and if the ancient armies number more then them then the estimates are. . . . wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kar%C3%A1nsebes

Wow. Now that's a disaster alright.