Austria in sphere, but no Greater German Empire

[Thorrbert]

Hello! This is another question about building the Greater German Empire. I know questions about this are rather common, therefore I did already some research, but couldn´t find an answer to my specific question.

Situation is: I am the Northern German Federation, Austria is in my sphere and I recently won the war against France to get Alsace-Lorraine. I now triggered the event to build the German Empire. What I expected was, that this will result in the creation of the Greater German Empire (since Austria is in my sphere). Did not happen, Austria still exists, only the nomal German Empire has been created.

Could not find out the reason. Are there any additional restrictions?

I play with Heart of Darkness, no mods.

Thank you very much for any help!

 

[Thorrbert]

No ideas?

 

[Flobalob]

Hello! This is another question about building the Greater German Empire. I know questions about this are rather common, therefore I did already some research, but couldn´t find an answer to my specific question.

Situation is: I am the Northern German Federation, Austria is in my sphere and I recently won the war against France to get Alsace-Lorraine. I now triggered the event to build the German Empire. What I expected was, that this will result in the creation of the Greater German Empire (since Austria is in my sphere). Did not happen, Austria still exists, only the nomal German Empire has been created.

Could not find out the reason. Are there any additional restrictions?

I play with Heart of Darkness, no mods.

Thank you very much for any help!

I can't really think of a reason for the this, it must be a bug. Are you sure they're in your sphere?, because usually the population of Austria makes sphering them peacefully virtually impossible. If they definitely are then it must just be a bug.

 

[Jorlaan]

Austria needs to have virtually no other cores to join. This means they need to not have Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian or other cores. The Polish ones I think are OK to be kept though, pretty sure I've had them join with just the Polish cores remaining.

 

[Bella Gerant]

Hungary needs to exist, if I recall. Just force them to pop out Hungary in Eastern Transylvania and Austria should join the Second Reich.

 

[Flobalob]

Hungary needs to exist, if I recall. Just force them to pop out Hungary in Eastern Transylvania and Austria should join the Second Reich.

They only need to exist if you want Austria to join Germany after you've already formed it. This is why it's better to get them into your sphere before forming Germany, as you will also get Hungary's lands.

 

[Thorrbert]

Problem is solved: a bug, or more a glitch. In my first try I formed Germany directly after I got the peace treaty with france without unpausing the game. In this case, lesser Germany was founded. I tried again (fortunately I had saved the game), this time unpausing for an ingame day. This time, the Greater German Empire was founded.

Hungary is only required, if you try to unify with Austria after Germany already exists, as Flobalob wrote.

Thank you for your help!