Originally posted by Gen. Wolfe:
I was wonderig if certain countries were playable in this game because I have read AAR's saying they were provinces of other countries: Ireland (part Irish) because I have seen screens showing it as part of England 
, Ukraine (part Ukrainian) I have seen screens showing it as part of Poland and Canada (I know stupid question) 'cause Upper and Lower Canada are colonizable areas in the game and maybe...you could control just that area...I can hope can't I?
Yes, you could play just about any country you like, as long as you don't mind tinkering with the game files a little.
You should distinguish between three different situations:
1. You want to play a minor country that already exists in the game at the start of the scenario you want to play (e.g. for the GC: 1492), but isn't playable as a straight choice in the standard game.
This one is very easy. All you need to do is to open the corresponding .eug file in the scenario dir of the game with a texteditor like wordpad, and replace the three letter country tag of one of the available majors into the three letter tag for the country you weish to play.
Save as a new file (e.g. myown.eug), and you're ready to go. If you start the game after this, you'll have a scenario available called 'myown', which will allow you to choose the newly added country.
2. You want to play a country that exists in the game, but isn't independant at the start of the scenario you want to play (e.g. Ukraine).
This is a little bit more complicated.
For a detailed answer on 'how to' look in the Ukraine thread in the scenario forum. I posted a link to the relevant thread there (too lazy to do it again).
3. You want to play a country that doesn't exist at all in the game.
This is the hardest, but it can be done, (geographivally speaking), as long as you don't mind using a wrong name for the country you want to play.
What you would need to do is to merge 2 existing countries (e.g. Baden and Württemberg, two small German minors), freeing the name for one of them to use for your country. The way to do it is essentially the same as in situation 2.
Greetings, Oranje
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