Was anyone more screwed by the hand of fate than the Mongols?

Was anyone more screwed by the hand of fate than the Mongols?
>Wreck two large European armies without fuss within two days and about to launch a campaign into Europe
>Ogedai Khan dies
>About to slap the shit out of the mamluks with the united Mongolian army of 120,000 men after destroying Baghdad
>Mongke dies, so hulagu has to return to Mongolia, leaving behind a small holding force
>Ain jalut happens and mongol empire splits into Khanates
>About to invade Japan and rape them
>Big storm blows in TWICE and stops both invasions

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We'd all be speaking Mongol now if they didn't have dumb ass successor-selection rituals

>Mongol's were experts at siege warf-

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Mongol_invasion_of_Hungary

Talabuga, who led the main army in Northern Hungary, was stopped by the heavy snow of the Carpathians. On the march up, his force was devastated by logistical factors, namely a shortage of food which caused the deaths of thousands of his soldiers, as attested to by the Galician-Volynian Chronicle and certain contemporary Polish sources.[22] This was likely the result of the traditional tactics of castle warfare, which involve starving out the invaders by hoarding all available food stocks, while launching small raids and sallies from the castles. Predictably, Talabuga's forces failed to capture any castles or fortified cities. However, they caused major damage to the civilian population, and raided as far as the Danube. Local Hungarian forces fought the Mongols in many defensive battles, for which the king had promoted several lesser officials who had distinguished themselves.[23] One such battle took place near the castle of Turusko, where the Mongols suffered a sharp defeat with heavy casualties, including 1,000 taken prisoner.[24]

>Was anyone more screwed by the hand of fate than the Mongols?
All of the people they ruthlessly butchered

Relevant question. How common was the stereotyped mongol dress really? Usually with uniforms it seems that the stereotyped uniforms you see in the media are just from one specific time or kind of battles or whatever(best example being the roman uniform and equipment). Does this apply to mongols as well? How often did they wear that stereotyped "uniform"? (especially interested in their hat, which looks very cool)

>comparing talabuga with subotai

I looked up mongol uniform and just got this and thought it was silly enough to post, but didn't find the uniform you were talking about (I meant to post as an example)
>Usually with uniforms it seems that the stereotyped uniforms you see in the media are just from one specific time or kind of battles or whatever(best example being the roman uniform and equipment)
This sounds interesting can you give examples/ explain?

oops forgot pic

>>Ogedai Khan dies

Them stopping because of Ogedei Khan's death is a myth.

>During the summer and autumn of 1241, most of the Mongol forces were resting on the Hungarian Plain. In late March, 1242, they began to withdraw. The most common reason given for this withdrawal is the Great Khan Ögedei's death on December 11, 1241, which supposedly forced the Mongols to retreat to Mongolia so that the princes of the blood could be present for the election of a new great khan. This is attested to by one primary source: the chronicle of Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who after visiting the Mongol court, stated that the Mongols withdrew for this reason; he further stated that God had caused the Great Khan's death to protect Latin Christendom.[32] However, this contradicts the Mongol accounts; a high minister and historian of the Mongol Ilkhanate, Rashid Al-Din, explicitly states in his records that the Mongols were not aware of Ögedei's death when they began their withdrawal.[33] Rashid's account more accurately reflects reality, as by Carpini's account, a messenger would have to be able to make the journey from Mongolia to Central Europe in a little over three months in the middle of winter (Carpini actually said news reached them in January, meaning a mere one month). Carpini himself accompanied a Mongol party in a much shorter journey (from Kiev to Mongolia) during the summer and fall of 1246, where the party "made great speed" in order to reach the election ceremony in time, and made use of several horses per person while riding nearly all day and night. It took five months.[34]

>>Big storm blows in TWICE and stops both invasions

The Mongols had already been beaten and were retreating when the typhoon hit.