This is the thread for discussing HoI4 mod Equestria at War.Praise Daybreaker.
Not sure if anyone is interested in the furry country, but it's been teased.
>>42990834I always thought that artist's portraits were ugly, if not just surreal. Now they're 10x worse.
Kill Chiropterrans. Behead Chiropterrans. Roundhouse kick a Chiropterran into the concrete. Slam dunk a Chiropterran baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy Chiropterrans. Defecate in a Chiropterran's food. Launch Chiropterrans into the sun. Stir fry Chiropterrans in a wok. Toss Chiropterrans into active volcanoes. Urinate into a Chiropterran's gas tank. Judo throw Chiropterrans into a wood chipper. Twist Chiropterrans' heads off. Report Chiropterrans to the ERS. Karate chop Chiropterrans in half. Curb stomp pregnant Chiropterrans. Trap Chiropterrans in quicksand. Crush Chiropterrans in the trash compactor. Liquefy Chiropterrans in a vat of acid. Eat Chiropterrans. Dissect Chiropterrans. Exterminate Chiropterrans in the gas chamber. Stomp Chiropterran skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate Chiropterrans in the oven. Lobotomize Chiropterrans. Mandatory abortions for Chiropterrans. Grind Chiropterran fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown Chiropterrans in fried chicken grease. Vaporize Chiropterrans with a ray gun. Kick old Chiropterrans down the stairs. Feed Chiropterrans to alligators. Slice Chiropterrans with a katana. Total Chiropterran death.
>>42991156Razorbeak, please calm down.
>>42991156Jealous
>>42990834the people making this mod are fucking evil. This is just furfag OC galore at this point.
OC galore the mod
>>42990830i want to extract daybreaker's love
>>42991232Not Hard Line?
>>42991354Of what? Bat ISIS?
>>42991372Equestria at War: Redux will save us
>>42991477The Redux is solely focused on commie shit like Stalliongrad and Pryhwen.
>>42991501What I find weird is that people making commie nations tend to either make them weird wholesome 100 utopian nonsense or them communism no food gulag 1984. Why can't they instead make them backwards shitholes that catch up extremely quickly and then stagnate?
>>42991516It's a game about conquering the world in a total war, I struggle to imagine what stagnating would even look like.
>>42991542>do you even play the game?
>>42991547Yes. Do you?
>>42991564You're talking like the goal of the game is WC all playthroughs
>>42990830Breed Daybreaker and her entire commander roster.
>>42991575Even the stallions?
>"No, it is not an "airship", it is, technically speaking, a helicopter. I am tired of all the ponies who keep calling my creation an airship" >Project Thundercloud; a combination of various military technologies and weather magic by the pegasi of the Equestrian Republic.
>>42992210Will it be a bomber?
>>42990834In all my games nuking the Storm Lands with 320+ accumulated hydrogen bombs has been a satisfactory endgame resolution. I will take any path that doesn't purge stormniggers as moral justification to add the hyenas to my glassing list, right next to the leatherbacks.
>>42991156they're less than 3 million, just use 36 nukes and a devastation mod, pleb.
>>42991922They, too, aren't safe from changeling buggery.
>>42992210>Equestrian RepublicSo is it just a route for endgame Equestria after winning the Great War, or is it a separate tag?
>>42992803It's a new country that appears only in the War of Sun and Moon, and the only way Equestria can become republican now, because your citizens don't get mad at you for winning the war anymore.
>>42992839Here are some more teasers of it
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>>42992849>>42992852>AI-generatedOh, no.
>>42992919how so?
>>42993161Way too many similes, repetitive sentence structures (count how many are built around illustrating a contrast or a negative parallel), phrases like 'highlighting' or 'a reminder of' used to summarise thematic ideas, to name a few giveaways. Also, it just sorta waffles on at length without really driving at anything. Granted, these are all things that humans do, but LLMs do it all the time, constantly. It sticks out badly when you know how to detect it. How hard can it be to find a decent writer in either the fandom or the HOI4 mod scene?
>>42992839That's retarded. It changes it from being an internal debate to an external war.>because your citizens don't get mad at you for winning the war anymore.It was less about getting angry at Celestia for winning the war and more about not preparing and modernising fast enough.During WW2, Churchill had extremely high approval ratings, but after WW2, the Conservatives were immediately voted out. Chamberlain and even Churchill had made many mistakes, while Atlee had done a lot of modernising during the war. The post-WW2 government made many changes, including the introduction of healthcare, a welfare state, pensions, housing, and so on.
>>42993175Yeah, it's really noticable if you play around with AI a lot.
>>42992852gonna have to make a submod to remove starshit nigger.
>>42993206>Actually defending the retarded republican subplotWe've reached peak contrarianism
>>42993234>Actually defending the retarded republican subplotYeah, bro, why would the public demand even the possibility of change after a stagnant monarchy insufficiently prepared for and made several mistakes during a massive war that had forced through rapid reform? It's not like that was what had happened in real life immediately after WW2. You're a retard on the level of J.K. Rowling that wants everything to stay the same.>We've reached peak contrarianismNo, contrarianism is simping for the bugs.The writers actually made it worse because instead of the public demanding a referendum to decide the country's future, it's the retarded cult leader of a strawman version of an already shit ideology gathering a few key people after the country has already fallen into chaos and tyrrany. They're even using AIslop writing.
>>42993354Oh, so you're actually just a retard. Good to know.
>>42993354>realism for thee, but not for me!
>>42993389>No argumentI accept your concession.>>42993391What? Do you even have an argument other than randomly accusing people of being hypocrities?
>>42993403>ArgumentI do not argue with subhumans.
>>42993407You're literally playing a mod about subhumans, retard.
>>42993403You want Equestria to be made retarded just long enough for it to become sensible for them to turn on the princesses when you decide to stop using the hand of the author to force Equestria to be retarded.If you genuinely wanted Equestria to be written in a plausible manner you'd be calling for Equestria to already have the capability to quickly raise a powerful military which could put the changelings under the boot. But that isn't what you demand, because you don't really care about what makes sense, you care about what makes Equestria weak.
>>42993420You're a retard. The Allies weren't ready at the start of WW2 or even in 1936 because they were busy dealing with their own issues, while the Axis had been cannibalising their own economies via rearming for a while. That's why the Axis made gains initially. As the Allies started getting their shit together and started building up steam, the Axis were steamrolled. The Axis could never have won. After WW2, the public demanded change, so a new party was elected.In EAW, Equestria is basically a cross between the various Allied nations. It had spent a long time being stagnant, has a retarded high command, and so on, so it loses a lot of land initially and then reforms and eventually beats the changelings. The buffs from the republican path are ok unless if Starlight Glimmer is elected.
>>42993455Point went so far over your head it's in orbit.Also holy shit with the amount of>but this is what happened IRLare you a fucking TNO dev? When you see aliens depicted in fiction do you start crying "but that's not how life evolved on Earth!"
>>42991373OC's are nice.
>>42993411EAW is not a mod about your family's life in Mumbai.
>>42993524Mumbai?
>>42992839remove the republican garbage
I wonder how expensive those portraits are. I'm thinking about commissioning one for Oskar, because his portrait is seriously outdated
>>42993473>Point went so far over your head it's in orbit.Cope.>are you a fucking TNO dev?EAW is literally just "WW2 but in the MLP setting". A lot of the newer content feels like TNO autism with how much writing there is, how many autistic mechanics there are, how much railroading and guilt-tripping there is, and how much effort the supremacist routes get compared to the other ideologies.
>>42993524I'm not Indian, while the developers are literally using AIslop for their writing.
>>42993936The main artist is also the lead developer.https://equestriaatwar.wiki.gg/wiki/Support_Our_Team
>>42994141what was the last nation scroup worked on?
>>42994141Wow, that's dirt cheap. Now I only need to decide which artist do I like the most, I can't tell any of them apart.
>>42994141Thats cool.
AI sure did mindbreak people, to the point where they cant even properly argue why something is bad. EAW writing is bad because it lacks themes. This was always the case.
And if it somehow has themes, it is always the most pro status quo, the most modernist and bland hylic themes imaginable. EAW would be better if it was made in Japan, preferably by Falcom.
>>42994577>Meaningless AIslop waffle is le good!>>42994580>Industry is le bad!>Material conditions are le bad!>Why does the mod about a massive grinding industrial war in the My Little Pony setting give so much attention to industrialisation?Retard.
>>42994632>>Meaningless AIslop waffle is le good!Not what I said. I said that overfocusing just on it is retarded.>Industry is le bad!>Material conditions are le bad!Yes, industrialisation, capitalism and liberalism were the root of all evil.It led to the soul of the world being lost. And you just proved it to me.
>>42994657>Not what I said. I said that overfocusing just on it is retarded.The point is that it's literally worse and more meaningless waffle than the minor "choose your country's future at the end of the game" events that it replaced.>industrialisationIndustry is good. Why are you seething on a Japanese cartoons image board on the internet instead of being a subsistence farmer somewhere?>capitalismCommunists also industrialised. It's one of their two achievements, the other one being helping to defeat the Axis.>liberalism were the root of all evil.Liberalism sucks, but you can't just call everything liberalism.>It led to the soul of the world being lost. And you just proved it to me.Cope. There's nothing soulful about being some backwards shithole.
>>42994133>EAW is literally just "WW2 but in the MLP setting".Yes, anon, that's the problem.
>>42994577It's bad because it's fatuous, boring to read, and lacks authorial intent. I don't care that they got a robot to write it, I care that the robot can't write well.
>>42994671>The point is that it's literally worse and more meaningless waffle than the minor "choose your country's future at the end of the game" events that it replaced.It doesn't, though? This is a separate tag from actual Equestria.>Industry is good, Why are you seething on a Japanese cartoons image boardBecause Japanese understand that industrialisation ruined everything >Communists also industrialisedThat is why they are evil>but you can't just call everything liberalism.I can because from renaissance onwards the liberal intelligentsia ruined everything. >There's nothing soulful about being some backwards shithole.You just proved how soulless you are.Equestria is a perfect nation. One ruled by a divine monarch, vested with ultimate power that she chooses not to use, except for defence of her ponies. Predominantly rural where ponies live in harmony with the land and each other. And greatly autonomous where actual ruling is done by the town mayors.Faust bless Equestria.
>>42994678>It doesn't, though? This is a separate tag from actual Equestria.And? It's still the replacement for the current republic route. I already said earlier that the developers are changing it from an internal debate to an external war.>Because Japanese understand that industrialisation ruined everythingThe Japanese sperging out the moment that they got their first proper steel factory going doesn't make industry bad.>That is why they are evilNo, it's all of the other stuff that they did that makes them evil. Dragging their backwards shitholes out of extreme backwardness and helping to defeat the Axis are achievements.>I can because from renaissance onwards the liberal intelligentsia ruined everything.lol>You just proved how soulless you are.no u>Equestria is a perfect nation.It's a fine setting, but not a perfect country.>One ruled by a divine monarchCelestia is immortal, not divine.>vested with ultimate power that she chooses not to useLiterally liberal "we can't govern" slop.>except for defence of her ponies.You need industry for defence. The military is needed, but it's also a net drain on the economy, so you also need lots of civilian industry.>Predominantly ruralAgriculture is good. Tractors, fertiliser, and other modern agricultural technology are good.>where ponies live in harmony with the landLiberal waffle.>and each other.How does this make industry bad?>And greatly autonomous where actual ruling is done by the town mayors.That's a bad thing. It even led to part of the country breaking away because by the time that Celestia knew what was happening, there was already a bloodbath between the locals and the military.>Faust bless Equestria.lol
>>42994692>And? It's still the replacement for the current republic route. I already said earlier that the developers are changing it from an internal debate to an external war.Current Republican path was always retarded, Equestria abandoning monarchy never made any sense. Making it a separate tag is a good thing.>Celestia is immortal, not divine.She is divine in EAW. She is an avatar of the Sun God. MFW newfags don't even know the deep lore.>You need industry for defence. The military is needed, but it's also a net drain on the economy, so you also need lots of civilian industry.You don't. Neither in the modern sense, as partisans of world war proved, and neither in the reactionary context.>Tractors, fertiliser, and other modern agricultural technology are good.All things that made modern farmers into pansies. >Literally liberal "we can't govern" slop.No, it is the most reactionary of all reactionary "slops". Read Maurrass and Tolkien.>It even led to part of the country breaking away because by the time that Celestia knew what was happening, there was already a bloodbath between the locals and the military.She didn't, the entire thing was that the Severanyan administration and military were keeping it from her.
>>42994706>Current Republican path was always retarded, Equestria abandoning monarchy never made any sense. Making it a separate tag is a good thing.No it wasn't and no it isn't. Equestria is extremely stagnant and Celestia and Luna make a lot of mistakes (especially earlier in the war) even when they don't go crazy. It's perfectly reasonable for the public to demand change after the war.>She is divine in EAW. She is an avatar of the Sun God. MFW newfags don't even know the deep lore.No she isn't. She just goes crazy under the stress of the war.>You don't. Neither in the modern sense, as partisans of world war proved, and neither in the reactionary context.Yes you do. The partisans' guns were made in factories.>All things that made modern farmers into pansies.What are you talking about? Even with modern agricultural equipment and inputs, farming is still constant hard work. The difference is that famine is now largely a thing of the past. You don't even respect farmers. You probably aren't even rural, but rather ultra-urban.>No, it is the most reactionary of all reactionary "slops".No, you're literally describing something that liberals do all the time.>Read Maurrass and Tolkien.Imagine basing your entire worldview on some French traitor faggot's works and some books that are barely any better than even the shitty Harry Potter series.>She didn't, the entire thing was that the Severanyan administration and military were keeping it from her.That was my point. The immense autonomy allowed the nobility and the military to keep important information from her.
>>42994923>It's perfectly reasonable for the public to demand change after the war.There is a difference between changing things, and completely flipping the country on its head and get rid of Princesses that were near worshipped by generations until the last 4 years. >No she isn't. She just goes crazy under the stress of the war.She is, and you don't know the deep lore as I said.>The partisans' guns were made in factories.You can make guns in your backyard or in manufactories and artisan workshops, you don't need an industry for that.>Even with modern agricultural equipment and inputs, farming is still constant hard work.You clearly don't watch the news. Modern farmers are absolute pansies who will complain about anything.>No, you're literally describing something that liberals do all the time.>Imagine basing your entire worldview on some French traitor faggot's works and some books that are barely any better than even the shitty Harry Potter series.You are an illiterate underaged retard. >he immense autonomy allowed the nobility and the military to keep important information from her.The only failing was that Celestia was too trusting of her general staff and administrators not being blatantly evil and corrupt. And even this speaks a lot about her hope that her subjects can be good. And she did restrain the military immediately when she learned about it. As I said, she is an ideal ruler.
>>42994975>There is a difference between changing things, and completely flipping the country on its head and get rid of Princesses that were near worshipped by generations until the last 4 years.The war had already flipped the country on its head. Meanwhile, the republic is still harmonist and just adds a few new national spirits and leader effects after the elections. In real life, Labour had previously had no chance, but then they won a landslide victory after WW2.>She is, and you don't know the deep lore as I said.Source or you're just making it up.>You can make guns in your backyard or in manufactories and artisan workshops, you don't need an industry for that.Ignoring the fact that backyards, workshops, and basic manufactories are not good enough compared to the scale that factories provide, where do you think the steel to make the guns comes from, retard? Mao tried using backyard smelters and ended up with shit steel.>You clearly don't watch the news. Modern farmers are absolute pansies who will complain about anything.The financefag pedo media elite said that the farmers are bad, so you believed them? You're a mindless liberal.>You are an illiterate underaged retard.No u.>The only failing was that Celestia was too trusting of her general staff and administrators not being blatantly evil and corrupt. And even this speaks a lot about her hope that her subjects can be good. And she did restrain the military immediately when she learned about it. As I said, she is an ideal ruler.You just said that the significant autonomy is a good thing. The ideal head of state is someone that is actually in charge of the country and leads it for the benefit of its people and industry, not someone that doesn't actually do anything until the corruption that was happening under their nose becomes impossible to be ignorant of.
>two fags arguing, both half retarded and half entirely correct but on completely opposite things
>>42995135I wasn't reading any of these arguments, but I agree with this anon for no particular reason.
>>42994580>EAW would be better if it was made in Japan, preferably by Falcom.Lol, now that's being retarded.>EAW writing is bad because it lacks themes. This was always the case.Said the faggot who's only argument is to cry how Equestria isn't being sucked off.
>>42995288>Said the faggot who's only argument is to cry how Equestria isn't being sucked off.He's right, it should be.
>>42995371no
Puerto Caballo and the United Dragon Lands need focus trees.
>>42996081>Puerto CaballoIIRC they'll get something short for the Equestran civil war (some day)
>>42996081yes
>>42992514Why?
>Play Novo>Play Crack Lightning>Play Posada>She effortlessly mogs them both put together>Crack Lightning has a better route in Posada's focus tree than in his ownSo this is the power of communism. Woah.
>>42996746Yea, Posada probably has the best commie tree in the mod.
>>42996746happens to all mods made by communists and ex-communists, so all HoI4 mods.
>>42997645Go cry about it nigger. Not everyone's fault that rightoids suck cock at making stuff.>>42997570Posada and Starry Night are best girls.
>>42997738Liberals aren't more creative. Commies and right-wingers just tend to go into more productive fields than making fiction.
>>42997790>commies>productiveimpossible
>>42997790> right-wingers>Productive fieldsNow that's the biggest joke I've ever heard off.
I'll be hosting an EAW game this Sunday at 18:30 CET.
>>42997799China is an industrial economy. The USSR had a lot of heavy industry.>>42998007A lot of right-wingers work in serious jobs like agriculture and industry.
Moot is a pedo.
>>42998417>Epstein was into FNAF, and not into MLPOh thank God, we've dodged a huge bullet
>>42998423I would love it if he was into MLP, it would finally filter away all the newfags and normalfags that ruined MLP and EAW.
>>42998436Go cry further nigger.>>42998414>A lot of right-wingers work in serious jobs like agriculture and industryNo they don't, because they're fat and retarded bastards who hate such jobs and rather give 'em to immigrants.
>>42998423But he was into yuri.
>>42998449Cope. Not every farmer or industry worker is an underpaid immigrant.
>>42998453>Cope. Not every farmer or industry worker is an underpaid immigrant.They pretty much are, while every right winger is a pants shitting moron.
>>42998458Nah. You're just coping to claim superiority for being a slop entertainment producer.
>>42998458If you are so tough, go on, what is your job?
>>42998466Whatever you say nigger. Enjoy your shitty job that is taken by immigrants.>>42998497Better then what the white trash has. Oh wait, they don't have anything, they're busy simping for the orange pedo.
>>42998526And yet you are too cowardly to say what it is. I am a postman, I am 185 cm tall and 85 kg. So your argument that everyone to the right is fat is incorrect.>assuming everyone is AmericanYou truly are a retard.
>>42998538>I am a postmanI'm sure you are Kevin Costner, how's that shitty dying job going for ya?>You truly are a retard.You have Eurofags who simp for the Orange Retard.
>>42998544>still too cowardly to say what his job is
>>42998544>shitty dying jobRetard. Much fewer letters are being sent these days, but much more parcels are being sent.
>>42998803>Retard. Much fewer letters are being sent these days, but much more parcels are being sent.All taken by courier companies. So yea, dying job.>>42998574Why should I even tell ya?
>>42998829>All taken by courier companies. So yea, dying job.Retard. The USPS still has the largest share of the parcel market.
>>42998840yes
>>42999465>The war of an african shithole against some more african shitholes
>>42999494Yea, its gonna be really fun gameplay-wise.
>>42999766How so? Kiria was fun, even on the wholesome 100 harmonist 3.5 year plan, especially since you get a war almost immediately afterwards. The multi-party democracy system, on the other hand, is boring.
>>42999935Well, starting off as a small nation, guaranteed to have other small nations to fight early on, becoming big and then having nations that became big in their own region is a nice gameplay loop.
Crack Lightning is another example of how Gorky was right.
>>42999494>africanLan Kir is vietnam, you absolute moron
>>43000577And Kiria (China) and Abyssinia (Ethiopia) are also in Zebrica.
>>43000611Yea? And? What of it? By that logic UK is Asia because it lies on the same continent as China.
>>43000845Yes.
>>42999935the gameplay tho...
>>42999935I really have no idea what is fun about the gameplay of Kiria? It anything but fun. You are gimped beyond belief. You have no industry, no army, no manpower, incredibly shit debuffs that take forever to get rid of, enemies that are way more powerful, and by the time your game starts and you fix everything the content ends.Autumn Blaze is completely out of character in the path, Rain Shine literally doesn't matter in any path, Republican revolt or Traditionalists are incredibly shit. Changeling path was a massive disappointment. Only somewhat fun paths were building Empire of Kiria and Rising Fire trying to ascend to divinity. Both which also have issues. Because The Imperial path kinda lacks any sort of catharsis at its end and it just sort of ends. And Rising Fire ends after becoming Divine, with nothing after that, all the build up (which isn't exactly the best conveyed either) leads to nothing. I am also sad that the pirates holding the island don't have some sort of path or that niriks don't have a path. Kiria was overall a massive disappointment. I really hope Lan Kir is better and that it actually lets me play as Niriks, and they don't change that.
>>42998185Lobby is up! Game will be starting at 18:30! Sorry about the late host.ID: 90280885248686105PW: /mlp/Mods: Equestria at War, Player Led Peace Conferences, State Transfer Tool MPHotjoin and coop will be on.
>>43001738nice castle
>"But Strato!", I heard you cry. "What about us Duchy of Cloudbury fans? Will we just get crumbs while the Republicans get to have all the fun?!">We heard your concerns. And to that, I say: first of all, that desire is the foundation of all suffering. But secondly, that yes, the Duchy will get some new content as well. Nothing compared to the mainline Republican path, but just a tiny bit. Not in the form you expect, though: it will just require of you a little... humility.
>>43002455thats cool
>With the death of Monarch Mahamerdz, the four clans rumble as the nation comes nearer to its first clan meeting of the year. In this short time, as the nation mourns, two gargoyles meet behind closed doors: one with many words to say about this status-quo, and another that... REALLY likes money.>Enjoy your first meeting with Demonia and Garik, the two gargoyles who will stand up and do everything to be a headache to Golian as he tries to mourn his spouse! >(Special thanks to @Snow for writing absolute peak events for GAR and making me inspired to draw event art for them :blushoil: )
>>43002876Cool.
>>42990830NMM is better.
>>43003605>Waaaah, integrating the thestrals is hard!
>As Fillydelphia Revolt begins, many common Equestrians pick up arms to lead the defence of harmony.
>>43004299At least they don't have ear infections.
>>43004639>>43004299Kek
>>43004299Is Scarswirl a filly?
>>43004299You just know that dragon is somebody's fursona. You can just tell.
>>43004299>By The BookThat is not how pony names work.
>>43004639You are soulless, earfluff is kino.
>>43004916Actually, she was a comic character.
>>43004952So I was half-right.
>>43004952that just looks like dragon pinkie pie
>>43004916>fursonaAnon...
>>43005165Dragons don't have manes. It's obviously some kind of malformed mammal.
>>43005180or a wig
>>43004926They sometimes do.
>>43002871looking good
Any nations that can utilize militia builds?
I want a Sentaurya focus tree just to have Tirek.
>>43006338Maybe one day. It'd be cool if Tirek could join Chrysalis and Grogar in a cross-continental axis, but it's probably never going to happen.
