User blog comment:Imperium Guy/Germany in TGN/@comment-32656-20120826011615/@comment-32656-20120903010454

Beg pardon, missed this when going through posts.

Not possible to unite it earlier. If anything, more people delays it, as it strengthens a few of the states.

Austria and Prussian would not unite in any form.

Austria really can't expand more into Germany. Have to go through Bavaria to do that, and the two are pretty equal. And doing so weakens their rear, giving victory to the Turks.

Past all of that, it'd be more likely for Germany itself - not Austria - ends up divided into two or three different nations.