what am I missing for Unification?

[OrdinalChaos]

I must be missing something, I have all the Scandinavian nation under my full control, I have consolidated power in all of them, I haven't done any diplomatic actions with any of them, and yet I cannot unify them. The EU also doesn't exist as a nation yet and all of them are still federated.

[tiavals]

Have you unlocked and researched the necessary Project to do so? Are they all allied together? Check if there's a claim on each of them for the "unified country"? You say they're federated, not in the EU but in your Scandinavia federation?

[Toblm]

Random countries dont unify.
Unless you completed a project to form a Scandinavia federation, or are unifying the EU (from France) I am not aware of a way to unify Scandinavia.

[shin.satsuma]

In general I've had a lot of trouble figuring out how to federate/combine countries together. The game does a very poor job, imo, of messaging how one might go about doing this, and from what I've managed to find online, only provides a few limited options, which I feel is missing a potentially very fun opportunity for weird world histories :).

For instance, to make the EU "nation" you have to control France. If you control every other EU country, and wanted to make a servant excluding EU headed by.. well, anyone other than France... You're out of luck. This feels overly limited.

Anyway, I know some people are concerned about spoilers, but for me, I feel like it's not a spoiler to know that a particular unification option is available. This is more a matter of understanding the limits of the game, and the open avenues of play. If anyone could annotate the known options and the keys for achieving them... This feels a lot more like a UI/tech pathway issue than a game objective kind of thing. The goal is clear, it's just a matter of how to do it within the game's interface.

Either way, I imagine we'll see more super country/unification options made available as mods as time goes on. Assuming that's within modding caps.

[Toblm]

Originally posted by shin.satsuma:

In general I've had a lot of trouble figuring out how to federate/combine countries together. The game does a very poor job, imo, of messaging how one might go about doing this, and from what I've managed to find online, only provides a few limited options, which I feel is missing a potentially very fun opportunity for weird world histories :).

For instance, to make the EU "nation" you have to control France. If you control every other EU country, and wanted to make a servant excluding EU headed by.. well, anyone other than France... You're out of luck. This feels overly limited.

Anyway, I know some people are concerned about spoilers, but for me, I feel like it's not a spoiler to know that a particular unification option is available. This is more a matter of understanding the limits of the game, and the open avenues of play. If anyone could annotate the known options and the keys for achieving them... This feels a lot more like a UI/tech pathway issue than a game objective kind of thing. The goal is clear, it's just a matter of how to do it within the game's interface.

Either way, I imagine we'll see more super country/unification options made available as mods as time goes on. Assuming that's within modding caps.

There are super country unification options. They are deep in the TT.