Should I form Scandinavia as Denmark?

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thronin

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I'm playing a new game as Denmark, I've managed to keep the kalmar personal union together but I would like to eventually incorporate both Norway and Sweden to avoid any future breakup but I am wondering if it's worth it to form Scandinavia or stay as mega Denmark. I have heard that it isn't worth it if you are Sweden because you loose Swedish flavor events etc. Is the same true for Denmark and are Danish flavor events worth it? Any help appreciated. Thanks.
 

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If you form any nation that doesn't have flavor events, you lose your flavor events, and if it has different flavor events, you will no longer get your old flavor events and only get your new nation's flavor events.

Really, the only nation with any real reason to form Scandinavia is Norway, and even then, it's not really worth it because of the horrible flag.
 

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There's two modes of thought you can take with this.

From an RP perspective, I absolutely take the decision. However, like people have said, you lose flavor events, which sucks majorly (and unique Danish missions, for that matter). I'd love it if Paradox gave some flavor events from Sweden and Denmark to Scandinavia as well- the latter more than the former, I'd say.

The second thing to keep in mind is this- while Scandinavia is a cultural union, the thing is that this doesn't actually matter unless you expand to a ridiculous degree, because the Swedish and Norwegian parts of your empire will actually outnumber the Danish parts. Given that the threshold for gaining Accepted cultures is 20% and the threshold for losing it is 10%... you're basically never going to lose Norwegian/Swedish as accepted cultures anyway, and the cultures in the eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, likewise, are unlikely to ever be accepted.

So, from a RP sense, you can make a good argument for it (and I play EUIV from the perspective of telling a history, so RP is often the direction I come from), but from a practical sense, it gives you little benefit. If Finnish, Sami and Kola cultures were added to the cultural union provided, then this whole calculation would change a bit, I'd say.