Interacting galaxies like the famous Antennae (NGC 4038/4039) or Stephan's Quintet (HCG 92) show considerable star
forming activity in their tidal arms. High resolution images (e.g. from HST-observations) indicate that these regions consist of
up to hundreds of massive stellar clusters or tidal dwarf galaxies (TDG). In this paper we investigate the future fate of these
clusters of massive star clusters (in this work called super-clusters). We simulate compact super-clusters in the tidal field of
a host-galaxy and investigate the influence of orbital and internal parameters on the rate and timescale of the merging
process. We show that it is possible that such configurations merge and build a dwarf galaxy, which could be the primary
mechanism of how long-lived dwarf satellite galaxies form. A detailed study of the merger object will appear in a follow-up
paper.