Horse annihilator edition>Get the gamehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/Hearts_of_Iron_IV/>Get the modhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1826643372https://www.moddb.com/mods/equestria-at-war>Balefire Blueshttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3259212795>Wikihttps://equestriaatwar.wiki.gg/wiki/Equestria_at_War_Wiki>New to HoI4https://equestriaatwar.wiki.gg/wiki/New_to_Hearts_of_Iron_4https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs3acGYgI1-v2rWyEDR8Mn3Avf9CxH1s1>/mlp/ EaW Discordhttps://discord.gg/eFKnDkj>Previous thread>>43184946
>>43277134Nobody made a new thread for long after slidefags pushed the old one into the archive.Have yet another evil bat.
I really need to stop delaying playing this again.Although I also want to play HOI3 too.
Barrad is boring.
>>43277301How so?
>>43277134I'm playing Vicky 3 more than Hoi4, pony mod for vic 3 when
>>43277643Sadly, there's only a Vicky 2 one in development.
>>43277329It's too much of a visual novel. The tag has very little infrastructure and industry and it has massive debuffs to construction and research speed. The unique technologies only provide minor buffs and take far too long to research. The end focus trees are also boring, especially since the Riverlands will usually declare war on you by the time that you get to the end focus tree, so the unique content is overshadowed by having to deal with that war while still having severe debuffs. The tag basically only exists as an adversary for its neighbours.
Kill all bats and bugs.
>>43277652It has cool stuff tho.
>>43277895No.
LGBTQCIA
>>43277134>horse annihilator>has a pony
>>43278439Some bugs are OK, but is there a single bat that isn't evil?
>>43279100Yes, there are plenty bats that are harmonic.
Also, this is the best bug
>when all your friends are gone from the serverNow I made myself said again
>>43279331>>43279333>>43279334OK, the bats aren't all bad, just most of them.>>43279336Who is this? Either I haven't seen him before or I forgot about him.
>>43279395He is a general in Greneclyf>>43279331>>43279336Both are OCs of my friends, we had quite a lot of fun back in the day before the server got infested by tourists and normalfags.
>>43279526How do you get him? I haven't played Greneclyf in a while.
>>43279538He is right there as general, you dont need to do anything
Still making great progress on 0.5 for BITN submod. Does anyone have ideas for names for solar puppet states? I want the primary regions to be for Herzland, Aquellia, the frontier (thats longsword and hellquil), Riverfed, and the coast area of Barrad, Kaza, and Austarland. Anything else will be given to Newmareland, and a optional war goal if they refused to join the empire where the plyer returns them to Solar Empire as a puppet. the names I had came up for so far are kinda meh, so if anyone has anything better than Ve-Day-na or Sunlight Hills I'll still take suggestions on those too.
The Equestria rework will apparently have a mental health mechanic for Celestia, Luna, and Twilight. Are there any other tags related to mental health or dealing with a crazy ruler? I already played Abyssinia and Katerin.
>>43280093Seriously?
>>43280140It was in one of the teasers.
I'm gonna have to lower the difficulty down to easiest because even after like 100 hours I haven't not been raped in every war no matter what I do.The problem with RTS games difficulty unlike other games where the game being hard doesn't usually waste much of your time or wear you down, losing in HOI4 usually involves wasting like 3 hours of your life or even over a dozen or more, which destroys the enjoyment. I'm done, Game Journalist difficulty it is.
>>43280432welcome to actually being able to enjoy hoi4 and not needing to make the meta division every time difficulty, enjoy your stay.
>>43280432Nothing wrong with that.
>>43280440What do you do with factories late game? I usually use my civs to spam infrastructure, railways, airfields, radar, anti-air, and so on, while I use my mils to convert all of my captured equipment to the latest equipment.
>>43280432HoI4 AI is literally retarded if you cant come up with some decent divisions after 100 hours and realize what to build and research then I can only call you retarded and you would never survive HOI3 even on the easiest difficulty.
>>43280747HOI4 is a map, timers, and RNG. You can be skilled enough to beat the game even on the hardest difficulty and still find the easiest difficulty more fun.
>>43281034>mapWhat? Every game has a map. >RNGMost of these can be cheesed by improving releations and using spies, and savescumming. There is nothing difficult about it>timersWhat? Waiting for a special project or research to finish? That is not hard at all
>>43281034>hardest difficulty and still find the easiest difficulty more fun.I tried playing on civilian or recruit after doing regular for years, and it was unbearable. The AI is so lobotomized and braindead that Equestrian civil war lasted until 1014 and merged with the Great War, and even then Changelings lost somehow
>>43281192>What? Every game has a map.HOI4 is a literal map of the world.>Most of these can be cheesed by improving releations and using spies, and savescumming. There is nothing difficult about it>What? Waiting for a special project or research to finish? That is not hard at allRetard. It isn't difficulty. It's just me talking about how the game is shallow.>>43281194Difficulty only has numerical effects. It doesn't affect how retarded the AI is.https://hoi4.paradoxwikis.com/Difficulty>Equestrian civil war lasted until 1014 and merged with the Great War, and even then Changelings lost somehowI once did that, and it lasted until 1011, so Equestria only had a few weeks to recover from the civil war and deal with the civil war and major war debuffs before the Changelings attacked. The Changelings got stomped because the civil war lets Equestria mobilise faster.
>>43281250>Retard. It isn't difficulty. It's just me talking about how the game is shallow.If the game is shallow then why do you need lower difficulty to have fun in it? Curious, isnt it?>Difficulty only has numerical effects. It doesn't affect how retarded the AI is.That is very much wrong. Teh civilian and recruit difficulty actively make AI more retarded, because I do play the game and dont need to rely on wiki shttery to prop my point.>The Changelings got stomped because the civil war lets Equestria mobilise faster.It was actually NLR that killed them.
>>43281284>If the game is shallow then why do you need lower difficulty to have fun in it? Curious, isnt it?Some people enjoy a challenge. Others play to relax. Sometimes people are in a mood for different things. It's still shallow.>That is very much wrong. Teh civilian and recruit difficulty actively make AI more retarded, because I do play the game and dont need to rely on wiki shttery to prop my point.I also play the game, retard. The AI is the same unless if you use the EAW custom game settings to add smarter AI. Nothing in the difficulty select screen talks about anything other than the stated buffs and debuffs. In game, the challenge at the higher difficulties is from playing around the buffs and debuffs because you have to adapt to the simple numerical changes.>It was actually NLR that killed them.I see. Did you set it to the extreme civil war instead of the normal civil war?
>>43281323>Some people enjoy a challenge. Others play to relax. Sometimes people are in a mood for different things. It's still shallow.There is a difference between relaxing and literally beating a mouthbreating retard. I play on regular exactly because I am relaxing. If I wanted a challange I would play on harder difficulties that actually debuff you to hell.>I also play the game, retard. The AI is the same unless if you use the EAW custom game settingsYou clearly dont. It is an empirical fact that civilian and recruit make AI dumber. It is not just number changes. On regular, AI is comparable to an average shlomo mouthbreathing goy. On civilian it is literally non-existent. I ve seen Germany actually backdown to Rheinland remilitarization on civilian. That is how retarded AI is there.
>>43281347>There is a difference between relaxing and literally beating a mouthbreating retard. I play on regular exactly because I am relaxing. If I wanted a challange I would play on harder difficulties that actually debuff you to hell.You are literally just talking about how you personally don't like the easier difficulties because you find it too easy. I don't like games that are too easy, but HOI4 is so shallow that the difficulty only changes how you have to play, so there isn't much difference.>You clearly dont.Yes I do.>It is an empirical fact that civilian and recruit make AI dumber. It is not just number changes. On regular, AI is comparable to an average shlomo mouthbreathing goy. On civilian it is literally non-existent. I ve seen Germany actually backdown to Rheinland remilitarization on civilian. That is how retarded AI is there.Historically, the remilitarisation of the Rhineland was a bluff, especially since France was a land power. With the stated debuffs imposed on the AI by the civilian difficulty, AI Germany might decide to back down. Several of Nazi Germany's early victories consisted of taking risky gambles and them paying off because of the Allies making retarded mistakes. The debuff isn't to the AI's intelligence (which is retarded on every difficulty), but just the stated debuffs on the difficulty selection screen.
>>43281419Ah you are that contrarian zigger, I remember your style of writing now. It just clicked with me. I am just going to cuddle with my stallion boyfriend. There is no use in arguing with you. Peace
>>43281499using braeburn suits you with how much of a faggot you are dude. no one gives a fuck.
>>43281347>>43281419Neither of you know how AI makes its decisions in events.The base probabilities are hard coded, but they may be changed by things called modifiers. These modifiers are only in effect if certain conditions apply. In the case of Rhineland, there's only two conditions considered throughout: the raw amount of divisions Germany/France/Britain have and whether certain gamerules have been set or not. Since none of these nations have enough time to build new divisions in the amount of time it takes to complete the Rhineland focus (nor any reason to delete any of them), we can precisely say whether a modifier will be applied or not. Below, I've done the calculations with the modifiers considered.When Germany remilitarises the Rhineland, France gets the event germany.60. When playing without historical, AI France has a ~17% chance to challenge.This moves the issue to Britain on whether they join the French or not. Assuming the twiflag didn't mess with what path Britain takes, Britain has a ~52% probability to join France.Back to France, if Britain refuses, France still has a ~69% chance to keep their pro-war position.Finally, we go to AI Germany. Whether it backs down is decided by the events germany.65 or germany.66 (depending on whether Britain joins France).If Britain joins, then the action taken is decided by strength_ratio: in other words, if France or Britain has more divisions than Germany (spoiler: this is always true in practice), then Germany backs down.If Britain doesn't join, then it's just a 50-50.After doing some basic probability maths, here's what you get:-If Twiflag was playing France, there was a 76% chance of Germany backing down.-If Twiflag was playing Bri'ain, there was a 17% chance of Germany backing down (unless he refused to join France's war, in which case the probability is ~5%)-If Twiflag was playing some other random nation, Germany had a ~14% chance of backing down.In conclusion, AI Germany has a ~14% chance of backing down if the player is playing on ahistorical, didn't preset the paths of Britain/France in the gamerules and isn't playing said nations. Roughly 1 in 6 games. Thus, Germany backing down is uncommon, but not that rare. Again: if you play on ahistorical, the only thing that will influence the outcome of Rhineland is the raw amount of divisions each side has, which is not affected by the difficulty whatsoever.I'd like to ask Twiflag the following: how often do you play base-game, ahistorical, without presets for Britain/France and not as Germany?
>>43281419This time, I think this anon is correct.
>>43281499>Twilight banner>Breeburn
This mod is in its death spiral.
>>43282469The Equestria rework will save us!It wont
>>43282236Breeburn doesn't have a banner as far as I know, anon. Unless you have access to some supersikrit ones. And I like Twiggles.
>>43281741Anon, That is literally what I have been saying the entire time.
>>43282886No it isn't. You were claiming that difficulty makes the AI even more retarded than usual.
>Boots up yet another game of my second favorite Hoi4 mod Equestria at War.>Picks Equestria>Do the exact same shit I do every playthrough and bring harmony and keep the princesses in charge.Hell yeah I love this mod.Also I make Anonmare my top general for the meme every time.
>>43283083Is the pic a teaser for the rework?I do basically the same thing, but I end up making Equestria a republic and elect Sunset Shimmer for the research bonus and I don't use Anonfilly because he's a retard. I would prefer Anonstallion and making it so that he could at least eventually be grinded into a decent general.
>>43283110Yep, it's the rework teaser. Personally I play Hoi4 to larp, not min max but Sunset is cute so it works out. And I would prefer to have the trifecta, anonmare, anon stallion, and regular human anon. Maybe someone will make a submod someday about human anon fucking around Equestria.
>>43283117>Personally I play Hoi4 to larp, not min maxEh, it was either her or Applejack. By late game, the content is basically finished, so I could LARP the research boost as her genuinely developing the country.
>>43277134What if Equestria WASN'T at war? What now?
>>43282920I have also stated that there is way more to AI than just numbers. And talked about nudging the AI chances, which is what you've talked about now too. Also difficulty does make AI stupider and especially less agressive and more passive.
>>43283253Then it would build more and more civilian factories and infrastructure and continue to develop its technology, but it wouldn't solve all of the issues that the war would force it to solve.
>>43283083The teaser looks really boring and nothing burger. >uprooting the tyrantJohan isn't even a tyrant. He literally doesn't do anything tyrannical. And tries to make Olenia strong and centralized to resist changelings.
>>43283279Most of these issues get resolved before the war though. Only thing that war influences is military doctrine.
>>43283294You need over 75% war support to get rid of the stagnation of harmony debuff, while generally doesn't happen until later in the game.
>>43283273twiflag, the anon you're responding to isn't meAnyway, I quote you:>On civilian [the AI] is literally non-existent. I ve seen Germany actually backdown to Rheinland remilitarization on civilian. That is how retarded AI is there.And I explain to you (and that other anon) that AI Germany backing down is not influenced whatsoever by game difficulty. Germany is just as likely to back down on civilian as it is on veteran.
>>43283333>Germany is just as likely to back down on civilian as it is on veteran.Isn't Veteran supposed to make things more diffcult for you?
Haha ponies with guns
>>43283350I wrote about it in >>43281741, but I'll rephrase it to be clearer.In short, the probability that AI will do a certain focus, decision, or take a certain option in an event can be increased or decreased by things called modifiers. These modifiers are only applied if certain conditions (triggers) are met. Triggers may also change the outcome of an event or focus. Difficulty (i.e. civilian/recruit/etc.) can, in theory, act as a trigger.In practice, only three countries use difficulty as a trigger: Spain (for some civil war stuff, it basically makes the civil war easier on lower difficulties), Bulgaria (2 random decisions are more likely to be taken by AI on higher difficulties), and the Raj (their communist path lets them cause civil wars in other countries; if you are such a country, you have an event option that lets you prevent it, but it only appears when playing on lower than veteran and not on ironman. AI cannot take it)And some extra info: the only countries in EaW to use difficulty as a trigger are the Changeling Lands and Equestria. Both of them use it for decisions that raise militias (lower difficulty = more militias raised. This only applies to the player). Equestria also has one focus that gives 75000 ponypower if you are playing on less than regular.
>>43283247Hmm, true. I do hope with the rework it'll make the focus tree larger. And that is a good larp.>>43283282Deer hooves types this.
>>43283320Tebe jebe?You literally achieve that before the war or during the early phase of war. Depending how fast the world tension rises.
>>43283333I mean, 76% is deffinetelly not true, anon. Because if you were to do that in normal game 9 out of 10 times, AI Germany will just go to war with France.
>>43283523Are these seriously teasers? Modern EaW seriously doesn't know how to meme or tease
>>43283726>You literally achieve that before the war or during the early phase of war.Anon was talking about what if Equestria wasn't at war.>Depending how fast the world tension rises.The Changeling Lands make a lot of world tension, so without the Changelings declaring war on Equestria, it takes a while for the chaos in the rest of the world to make up for that world tension.
Evil diarchy AF, if it was based
>>43283732Yeah, the format should have been the other way around, with Twilight on the left and Celestia on the right.
>>43283732It could be better yeah. One for the commieslop ponies is this one.
>>43283736Most of the WT comes from Griffonia, Changelings in comparison make minuscule ammount. You can get rid of debuffs as Equestria by 1009 even if war were never to happen.
>>43283750>betterIf only you knew how better thing could be
>>43283750>Bats>RevolutionariesMost of the bats are lumpen thugs.
>>43283737God, imagine being in the middle of three way kiss between them while they tease you about playing Hoi4. Bonus if the main six are there too.>>43283760Thing can always be better. Thing usually better when major update release.>>43283766Revolutionary Thug Bats.
>>43283727I'll admit, that chance seemed to be a bit too big for me. So, I did some testing now. Played as France on Elite, did literally nothing until March. From that point on, I waited for the Rhineland event (March 11), went down the event chain, then restarted when it concluded. Of the 10 times I did this, Germany backed down 8 times. Small sample size? Yes, but enough to prove a point.You can do the tests yourself if do not believe me (for reference, I used the March 1 autosave; if you save after already getting the Rhineland event, it might eliminate the randomness factor, so I'd advice against it).This probability only seems too high because AI France has a significantly lower chance of getting Germany to back down (and a 0% chance on historical), and because, be honest, how often do you play base-game France and go down the early war path?
>>43283850*clarification: by restarted, I mean I loaded back to the March 1 autosave
>>43282469No it's not.
>>43279582Portrait for Fleur I finished tonight
How many of each research facility should I have? I usually build two of each.
>>43284515I typically have only 1.
>>43284348CUTE!
>>43284515One of each plus whatever you conquer.
TD's are overpowered.
>>43283772Cute.
>>43285798>TDwut
>9
>went into observer mode>hidden event gives AI nations meta templates at the start of the gamewtfsince when was this a thing
>>43286480Really recently. It was actually nerfed since, changelings used to be complete MP sweatlords. They're still sweatlords, but at least they don't send volunteers into every war on the planet to grind.
I am a nation with a focus tree. Nobody ever talks about me, nobody ever remembers that I exist. What am I?
>>43286526Azir? It has a focus tree, but it's still more of a visual novel.
>>43283750all of that and no non aligned path for Stalliongrad for the tsar peter pony
>>43286526Lushi
>>43286526Cyanolisia.
>>43286696Everybody always talks about Azir
>>43287064Because the content is autistically hidden. The content itself is basically just a visual novel.
Will Griffonstone ever get actual content?
>>432874863 years.
>>43287486It does right now, if you're a GOY.Officially, probably not. If nobody bothered with Griffonstone yet, nobody will. It's in an awkward geographical position that leads to being gangbanged from every direction, and features canon characters instead of furry communist OCs.
There should be a secret event text that you only get when you activate "Scraping the Barrel" when playing as Equestria that is just essentially a greentext of the Cutie Mark Crusaders getting drafted, and it ends with them doing the cheer:"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS SOLDIERS!!!"And then if the war doesn't end in 6 months you get another dialogue box where they die when their trench gets overrun.
>>43287486Devs have to jump through a lot of hoops to get approval to work on new nations, doubly so for ones with canon FiM characters. It's not gonna happen anytime soon.Thankfully this system saved us from Changelings getting a communist path.
>>43288049ELF has CMC drafted into the army
Whatever dev was responsible for MP templates for the AI, I wish I could shit into his mouth
bumping 'gainst the frogspam
>>43288052I just want Roam content damn it
>>43288739Is this kind of thing normal? I only visit the board for eaw threads, first time I'm seeing a raid like this
>>43288784wouldn't be the first time, but not common either, maybe once or twice per month at most. We just have to wait for janny to clean up
>>43288459It's supposedly getting reverted in the next patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbI5W8qmDAM
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/518190/the-princess-and-the-kaiser got updated recently.
I was curious about how viable rushing magical infantry actually was so I did a Crystal Empire game and challenged myself to only use it instead of regular infantry.I got pushed all the way back to the Crystal City since I just didn't have enough production for more than 15 units at the start of the war, but I was also spamming fighters. I've only now stabilized things and retaken half the country.Stalliongrad also ate rocks in Nova Griffonia and is only now pushing the junta back.The changeling AI feels much more threatening than it used to be.
>>43289799Nice. CE is well suited for magic inf builds.
>>43289437Nice.
>>43290507Casualties?
>>43290949The last summary I got before I stopped. Wingbardy tried to start a World War while I was busy pushing back the changelings.Could have been worse.
There was a point during the war where Equestria only had 22% of its victory points remaining and I had to race to the sea so they didn't cap.
>>43291084Not bad.
>>43286526farbrook
>>43287486They are going to add content to ziggers #815 just because you asked.
>>43292040It has a focus tree?!
>>43289432>Operation Citadel, Operation Torch and Operation Bagration in one episodeWew. Though I would prefer if the various operations were not near 1-to-1 copies of the real ones.
Will there something related to HOI4's 10 year anniversary in the next releases?
>>43292582Yes.
Theres a Korean forum for discussing EaW. >https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/lists?id=eaw
Project Phoenix got an update.
>>43292463>I would prefer if the various operations were not near 1-to-1 copies of the real ones.That is the disappointment of being an EAW fan, most of the mods content would be better if it wasn't 1-to-1 expy.
>9Are land cruisers disabled? The mod refuses to let me research them.
>>43294129You need to do a special project and fo that you need to research superheavy tank
>>43293286North or South?
>>43293459Does it have Daybreaker, or is it harmonic only?
>>43294129No.
>>43294227>>43294822Yeah I'm retarded and it took me almost a day to find the problem. One of my submods disabled that special project alone for some reason without even advertising it. Oh well.
I want more cute stallions as leaders, I am so tired of so many f*male leaders and generals.
The patch is here, doesn't seem like the meta divisions were removed>>43295368Gay
• “After the Storm” 2.6.2 Compatibility for 1.19 Hearts of Iron IV patch and Thunder at our Gates DLC.Additions:• Added many new victory points and supply hubs on Equus.• Added faction icons for hillponies, Prywhen, Lake City, Wingbardy, Solar Empire, Lunar Empire and Senturya.• Added a new loading screen.• New icons for Anti-Revisionism and Marksism subideologies.• New icons for science base levels.• New icon for Undead race.• Four new generic penguin portraits.• Added Modern SP SH Howitzer project (Requires Götterdämmerung DLC).• Added lategame Air Assault Infantry unit (Requires Götterdämmerung DLC).• Added labels (a new feature) to the bookmark screens to help players filter our races.• Added lategame critical parts for ships.• New cityfall event for Solstice.• Most semi-modern infantry divisions will now start with field guns, and most tank divisions will start with mobile heavy weapons companies.• With TAOG DLC, added unique racial HQ units to many races.• With TAOG DLC, created a custom modifier for general capture avoidance chance, used in some racial HQ units.• With TAOG DLC, Equestria, the Changelings, Hippogriffia, and Stalliongrad all start with unique HQs.• Changeling Lands:o New general for Thorax's path.• Equestria:o Added a new event.• Francistria:o Added an event for overlord when puppet communist Francistria becomes independent.• Griffonian Empire:o Added news events for when a regent is chosen.• Hippogriffia:o Added new general for antifa Skystar.• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:o Crimson 1 and Zelitha now get unique party names.• Jaki-Clan:o Added focus icons.• Nova Griffonia:o Added a new event chain to make white peace with Stalliongrad if the Republicans capitulate.o Added a decision to sell the new state of Skull Islands to the Changeling Lands.• Olenia:o Added a new army spirit.• Zongo:o New portrait for Akida if he chooses to have a lavish coronation ceremony.
Changes:• Disabled main menu snowfall, re-enabled background selector button.• Increased population for Equestria, Olenia, Stalliongrad, Our Town and Polar Bear Communities.• Increased starting factory count for Changeling Lands, Equestria and Stalliongrad.• Changed terrain of many provinces on Equus.• Adjusted victory point values, infrastructure and state categories on Equus.• Moved two Equestrian states to Changeling Lands and Nova Griffonia.• Adjusted starting armies for Changeling Lands, Stalliongrad and Olenia.• Increased maximum building slots to 30.• Forming the Storm Kingdom also requires controlling the Eye of the Storm.• Removed 1009 medium tanks from starting countries.• Gave Stalliongrad and Changeling Lands bonuses to tanks at start and anti-air to Stalliongrad.• GBP now gains Brigade Size from operations rather than infantry.• Weakened AI 1011 fighter.• Magitech quarries now show resources in construction map.• Rebalanced body armor technology.• Boltria and Central Zebrican Empire now use the Storm Legion division template and start with support equipment technology.• Switched generic West Zebrica wargoals to annex instead of puppet.• Generic West Zebrica war focuses can now only puppet countries with same ideology.• Generic West Zebrica war focus bypasses now check if an ally or puppet owns the required states.• Yeti racial technology reduces resistance target by 5% instead of 10%.• If the AI stops trading with Skyfall, they will no longer ask to trade with it again.• Fixed SEAD raids damaging wrong buildings.• Fixed requirements for Deep Rock Mining Drill.• Increased attack bonuses and reduced max entrenchment for southeast Equestrian civil war national spirits.
• Reduced AI aggression modifiers for Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon.• Rebalanced the advisor trait "Unhindered Scientist" to be more worthwhile.• Made AI for Equestrian Southeast countries more aggressive.• With TAOG DLC, story-important generals can't be captured. We may have missed some - please keep your eyes open and report any oddities!• Many new tags start with Support Weapons 1 (unlocking heavy weapons support).• Field Guns are unlocked by pre-industrial artillery rather than early artillery.• Refactored some code for better optimization using the new math expressions feature.• Altered the balance of bazooka infantry tech to make heavy weapons company bolster piercing rather than reduce it. To compensate, base piercing and hard attack of bazooka-equipped infantry has been lowered, and mechanized equipment piercing has been restored to its former high values now that it is multiplied by a smaller amount.• With GTD DLC, specialized field manuals and fire control tech boost super-heavies as well as landcruisers.• Super-heavy tanks will be regimental support instead of divisional support and removed their terrain penalties and battalion mults correspondingly. Landcruisers are still divisional.• Abyssinia:o Extended Manedalusia war peace timer.o The AI prioritizes coring decisions more.o Final communist focus is no longer blocked for AI.• Adelart:o The Sheriff has a warrant to seize undue property from any neighboring state for any reason.• Aquileia:o Replaced Republican Pact entrance with a NAP.• Blackhollow:o Redone portraits for Blackrock, Cyrille and Reeve.• Bronzehill:o All instances of declaring war on the owner of Griffenheim now also immediately declare war on the owner of Crona instead of just granting a wargoal.• Changeling Lands:o The AI now takes longer to attack Olenia.o Changed Ocellus' trait in the Thorax path.o Standardize Thoraxian revolt size to 15%.o Thorax starts as Liberation Front subideology before flipping to Benevolent Absolutism.o Thorax's path now has same doctrines and laws as the regular path.• Chiropterra:o The AI should want to help Lunar Empire more during the civil war.• Equestria:o "Changeling Threat" focus now requires for Changeling Lands to generate some world tension.o Updated portrait for Sunrise Moonshadow.• Flowena:o Many money decisions are now available while at war as well.• Griffonian Republic:o The Herzland General Assembly's ideology is military communism.o Communist Members of the Anti-Imperial Coalition will always reject diplomatic demands from Prywhen until the Griffonian Empire is defeated.o Choosing to immediately subdue factions upon the return to Griffenheim grants Reconstruction progress.
• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:o Changed Crimson 1's subideology to military communism.o Skipping the beaches now gives early transport plane tech.o Improved GUI for Ravakh.• Lunar Empire:o Nightmare Moon no longer kills Celestia after winning the civil war.o Starts with an additional 10 divisions in the civil war.• Mandate of the Eye:o No longer gets Azir's army when annexing it.o Shortened some focus durations.• Nova Griffonia:o Weakened Changeling tank division.o Rebalanced civil war.o Stalliongrad can be invited to join only after the civil war has lasted 9 months, and if they are at peace.o Made Stalliongrad AI less likely to join the civil war if the Republicans are also at war with other countries.o On non-historical and with no game rules enabled, the AI will have a chance to go either full Republican, full Authoritarian, or neither.o AI is now more likely to offer help to either Yakyakistan or Jaki-Clan.• Olenia:o Shortened focus completion times.o Replaced Manntlerhim's advisor trait.o Improved AI.o Strengthened some modifiers.• Our Town:o Renamed the city itself to Our Town as well.• Pridea:o Is no longer called a republic if it forms Aquileia while Dennis is the leader.• Roam:o Now starts with Mass Assault doctrine.• Stalliongrad:o Improved AI.o Vasily, Sinister and Dark Wing now have traits as country leaders that they have as advisors.• Wingbardy:o Can no longer join the North Zebrican War if they have more than 20% surrender progress.o Now starts with Grand Battleplan doctrine.• Wittenland:o When Barrad is puppeted via event, it loads generic focus tree and keeps its ideology. The AI no longer accepts puppeting.• Zar-Hay:o AI yeti countries and related breakaways no longer agree to ally harmonic Zar-Hay.o Revolt breakaways get slightly more units and stockpile.
>>43295872Fixes:• Replaced broken supply factor modifiers with functional ones.• Fixed scout planes using small bomb bays.• Fixed module bug for supersonic airframe.• The decisions to release Reichsmandate now require to both own and control the required states.• Fixed a province breaking frontlines in the Great Lakes region.• Fixed an edge case where the Aquileian revolution mission wouldn't cancel in vassals, leading to Westkeep declaring independance in case of peacefull monarchist counter-revolution.• Fixed issues with plane bonuses in griffon and hippogriff racial technologies.• Fixed the start date of improved heavy armor scheme.• Improved overrides for some loc.• Abyssinia:o Fixed communist subideology not matching the government form after elections following Sharp Spear's retirement.o Fixed Sharp Spear events triggering after she retires.• Adelart:o Will not use its special forces as the default garrison.o Fixed raids being able to be prepared for invalid targets.• Angriver:o Fixed being able to release puppet from an ally's land.o Does not default to using special forces as the garrison template.• Aztlan:o Fixed Daring Doubt not being the harmonist leader.o Fixed allies of nations that Aztlan invites not being invited.o Fixed broken tooltips.o Fixed effects not working as intended.o Fixed other countries not being warned by war declarations.• Bronzehill:o The focus "Revoke Federation Independence" will now grant a wargoal on the owner of Skyfall if Skyfall was defeated by another power.• Buffalo Tribe:o Fixed icons.• Changeling Lands:o Fixed remilitarization decision being global.o Fixed Thorax's path country names.• Chiropterra:o Fixed not declaring the Commonwealth under some circumstances.o Fixed the event "Sweeping The Remainer" firing when it shouldn't.• Chital:o Fixed some expansion decisions appearing while the targets were already conquered.o Fixed bypass for focus about allying Roam.• Dawnclaw Heresy Imperium:o Fixed an icon.• Equestria:o Fixed issues with railways around Canterlot.
• Firtree Villages:o Fixed icons.• Flowena:o Can no longer spread plague to Dread League.• Griffonian Republic:o The Grand Duchy of Cloudbury remains non-aligned when puppeted by a Griffonian Empire with another ideology.o Suntail's National Republic will receive Everfrost Republic events if the option is chosen.o Bypassing "Tricolor over the West" by having Republican Aquileia in the Republican Pact still provides cores on Skyfall.o Allies and puppets of the Empire unifier now lose the Anti-Imperial Coalition spirit.o Suntail's The West focus bypasses if none of its wargoal targets are available.o Events about army uprisings no longer trigger if the Dawnclaw Heresy is active.• Haukland:o Name fix in GUI.• Hellquill:o Fixed focus being cancelled by declaring war.• Icepaw Provisional Directorate:o Fixed a focus filter.o Fixed some national spirits remaining when puppeted.o Maregypt should now always accept dual Icepaw's Ovingoland proposal if they are in an alliance together.• Katerin:o Fixed the requirements for the focus "Tied By Blood".• Kiria:o Fixed Changeling Fragrance broken ideology GUI.• Longsword:o Fixed decisions about joining alliances.• New Mareland:o Fixed the "Sue for Peace" decision targeting nations besides New Marelando Fixed issues with capital name in the Equalist path.o Can no longer ally Hippogriffia until the North Zebrican War is over.• Nimbusia:o Tried to fix pegasi being used as the default garrison template.• Nova Griffonia:o Character transfers after civil war should now be fixed.o Fixed game rules not working.o Fixed numerous issues with the civil war.o Fixed country color resetting after civil war.o Fixed Village Up North border conflict breaking in a specific scenario.o Fixed intel agency icon.o Fixed missions not cancelling when the civil war ends.o Fixed Republicans sometimes having 100% communist party popularity when the civil war begins.o Fixed the civil war sometimes not properly being considered to be over.o Fixed Republicans being able to become a puppet of Stalliongrad while either capitulated or in another faction.• Quaggatai:o Can no longer declare war on Colthage if a subject.• Tarrin:o Can no longer have monarchist coup as a puppet.• Yakyakistan:o Fixed some subideology changes and checks.• Yale:o Fixed a resource prospecting decision having the wrong requirement.o Fixed a national spirit icon not showing.• Zar-Hay:o Fixed a focus bypass.o AI revolt breakaways have more popularity for ruling party so the AI doesn't switch to another ideology.• Dehumanized some GFX.• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.• Miscellaneous localisation fixes.• Checksum f2e5 // Image by jijizi This update IS NOT save compatible with 2.6.1.1.
>After countless times of bitching about Blackrock portraits, they're finally added>After being drawn 2 years agoPlease, no need to thank me.
>Moved two Equestrian states to Changeling Lands and Nova Griffonia.>Increased maximum building slots to 30.RIP submods for nowAlso I wonder what states got moved?
>>43295849You're right. I hopped into observer mode and the changes are pretty minimal, with the new regimental companies added to them.This is the template AI Equestria gets in January 1007.
Special forces had their doctrines replaced with the mastery system.
>>43296018That looks nice. Are they good?
>>43295991Not bad.
just caught this bug
>>43296736Oh. So this is the "execution of Applejack" DLC everybody was asking for.
>>43296736Is that a DLC only feature?
>>43296756YesThank you paradox
>>43296760>SO!>One, I thought I posted this alreayd, I did not. Woops. Anyway>The civil war stuff up there. You see the central bit about army stuff? Yeah, that's the civil war army reforms and foci. The stuff you do to turn the Equestrian military from 'how do I gun :(' into someone capable of winning a civil war. During this you get events that let you pick your doctrine.>But what about after the civil war?>Well, good news. You get to keep developing the future of the Equestrian Royal Army>Two paths, but the two do have some overlap, as you can see.>On the left, is that of clique headed by Blueblood. This group focuses on the school of modern warfare that was developed in Griffonia, that worked in the Falcor war. A focus on infantry assaults, modern squads, support artillery, grand plans and unquestioned orders to rule the day.>On the right, is the clique headed by Sunset Shimmer. She's brought a few new, unique ideas from her experiences elsewhere. This path focuses much more on magical equipment, racial techs, support companies, coordination and sheer firepower. Dazzle the enemy's senses, overload their ability to reply and overwhelm them with munitions, not bodies.>Neither of these choices are doctrine locked, however. If you want to go mass assault and then go for the infantry buffs from Blueblood's clique? Go for it. Want Mobile Warfare with spicy magical support? All yours.>Both cliques are able to also work on the other modern war concepts, namely tanks, motorised and mechanised etc>Icons are all placeholder and borrowed from all over the place.>TLDR: Hey you get to go pick what research and buffs you want to beef up the military post civil war
>Likewise to the ground, you get to pick your initial doctrines for the air during the civil war. And like with the army, you get to again upgrade it after the civil war.>Focus on having the best pilots and training, or the best [if more expensive] machines?>A focus on long range attacks? Logistical strikes? CAS? You pick>Strats, Heavy Fighters, Tacticals, CAS? Pick the type of equipment you want to focus Equestria's industry on producing to fit your strategy
>>43297134>>43297137Wtf are the icons in all the Equestrian teasers? Why are they so fucking ugly?
>>43297157Their not that ugly. I'd say they look quite nice.
>>43297170They look really cheap and washed out, like someone was attempting to copy Tiddo and how he make his icons, except he wasnt very good at it. Using placeholders would be better than this.
>>43297249Eh, I don't think it looks any better or worse then the average custom focus icon.
I just got HOI4. What should I play as in EAW?
>>43297910Griffonian Empire is an easy start.
I'll be hosting an EAW game this Sunday at 18:30 CET.
>>43297700You cant be serious, compare these to the icons in Icepaw, Polar Bear King of Winter path or Hippogriffia for example. The icons in these teasers look like they are trying to copy that but end up way shittier.
I should do another Heavenly Snow run, been a long time since I did it
>>43298903its a fun path
>>43297137Nice.
>Man, central Zebrica sure is a pain, huh? Lack of supply, impossibly hot, miles upon miles of flat, dry desert. The sand is rough, coarse, and it gets everywhere! If only there were a people - a species, if you will - custom built for this exact kind of environment...>(values are subject to change)
I hate how I have to convert discord image files to post them here.
>>43298387Lobby is up! Game will be starting at 18:30!ID: 90287016355616783PW: /mlp/Mods: Equestria at War, Player Led Peace Conferences, State Transfer Tool MPHotjoin and coop will be on.I might be AFK for a bit at the lobby, but I'll be back before game start.
>>43299987thats nice
>>43300041Hoi4 is easy to learn.
>>43300010A lot of desert buffs overall.
Any good nations for a spec ops build?
>>43301217Hellquil, Longsword, Arcturian Order, Barrad, Polar Bears, Chiropterra, Zarantia, Tobuck, Hippogriffia
Haukland too
>holy shit camel content>ask on the Discord>it's for the yeti LARPer>mfw
>>43300010Maybe one day 4chan will enter the 21st century and allow webp images
.webp is for faggots
>>43301798What?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf5l0ZvxjvFzLEtkvGIaATneUSPcM3KFVIcELSrx_6hTp-5w/viewformEAW devs doing a survey.
>>43301298so that unit instantly dies against a tank?
The Equestria buffs might have gone too far in a few places. Still, I'm gonna enjoy it while it lasts.
So did the Equestria rework ever come out?
Anons help! Who is the strongest Pony nation that can form the river federation? By strongest I mean>Has the best army spirits like high atk, atk is best>Decently quick at forming the federation >(I know Nimbusia has crazy atk modifiers, I think for the fascists, but they are extremely slow, I need to not be that slow to match the griffons' 200 factories)I am playing a mp game in a couple days that will go to late game against a griffonian empire player 1v1. I will be a river federation nationAlso, going for a full magic infantry army, yay or nay? Thought of having magic infantry holding the line, and then a mix of pegasi+SPGS as offensive troops. I think the racial special forces are stronger than mountaineers (the vanilla meta) yay?
>>43302819No, and it will not come out for a while. Even if they finish Equestria, Rock Union, Las Pegasus, Southern Corporate State and the Buffalo tomorrow, Solar Empire is still gonna act as a bottleneck. Nobody is working on the Solar Empire right now.
>>43302893Good, good. I still have to play the Changelings, the IAGF submod, and that other submod, so I was worried they'd all have to be updated.
>be me, trying to create a simple mod for EaW where I add some Ponies>The dependency keeps deleting itself non stop and my mod does not work>Literally every single other sub mod I have ever made for other mods and vanilla work, only the mod made by subhuman pieces of shit furries who hate Ponies actually stops me from adding Ponies I hate the devs, EaW is an insult to Pony, it is non stop griffon and zebrica content for characters and nations only furries play
The mod has ponies already, dude, what are you even going to add? More of them?
>>43303418Yes
>>43303450
>>43302829It's me again anons, my question was a bit too big to answer so I instead want to ask something different and quicker.Are mountaineers better than racial units like Pegasi? That's it. I hoped some knowledgeable anons knew.The meta for poor nations in vanilla is mountaineers, they get less width and high stats. Do the racial upgrades make pegasi, knights, etc, better for EaW or not?
>>43303757I would say most Racial special forces are superior to default types, but I feel like pegasi are kind of shit compared to the others.
>>43303757mountaineers are just generally good and serve the same niche as vanilla, most racial special forces are a bit better than non-racial special forces but i dont think they're that much better
One thing I dislike about EaW is that most countries have chief of armies and military high command that aren't their actual generals and field marshals. This means you have to grind your own infantry and armor geniuses from your own generals and you end up having 2 infantry specialists, 2 arty specialists, 2 of everything, which looks fucking messy as shit. It is annoying because, well, why not make your already existing generals into the high command like vanilla and kaiserreich already do? Like, why is Zecora the armor expert for Equestria, BUT NOT A GENERAL, why do I have to grind a different guy into an armor genius, why not let me grind Zecora???? See what I mean, that scenario repeats itself in almost all nations.
>>43277134>>43300041I am learning hoi4 while playing Equestria at War. Do motorized and mechanized count as both infantry and combined arms? Do they only count as combined arms?
>>43304328You can hover over the research icons to see, it says there which bonuses apply to whom
>>43304353Thank you, I just checked, motorized and mech do NOT count as infantry.
>>43303958To be fair getting those to genious takes forever.
>>43305064Yeah but it actually feels nice using your own generals and seeing them become better. I have noticed most newer nations have their advisors and generals be the same. Aquileia, the Griff Republic, River Republic, Wingbardy, Abyssynia (the cats).That's really nice. Compare that to Equestria where Limestone Pie is the infantry specialist but she is no a general at all, you cannot grind her. And also Applejack is not an advisor of anything, neither is Pinkie, Pinkie specially should instantly be an artillery advisor once you unlock her but isn't.
>>43305164You can literally make new advisors yourself, retard.
>Playing Crystal Empire for the first time>Select a unit and the voice says:>"Hi Anon, I lost the war!"I giggled.
>>43305375CE has great voicelines. If only it got a rework.
>>43305976It is pretty fun even without itIf anything, I am 100% sure that rework will ruin everything fun about it because devs hate fun evil. They will try to force Sombra into reforming. They always keep doing that.
>>43305987I hate the fact that the devs for this mods don't actually watch or read Pony. They are furries first and foremost. They hate Pony so much so much and I wish them cancer and their families illnesses.If you want good guy Sombra, they already have the Reflections Sombra, just add an event chain about the mirror and shit and have him be a good guy that marries Celestia if you insist on him marrying main characters. Or have good Sombra appear when Celestia turns evil to "balance" the world, he tries to redeem her to restore the balance, and just write the happy ending they didn't get in the Reflections comic. It is that fucking easy and simple.
Ponies are overpowered wtf, their magical infantry gets ridiculous amounts of soft attack.>1k soft attack as infantryI just overran the griffs.What's up with that? No other race gets magical infantry that strong. I have made 18w magical infantry with griffons a lot too and they always have at most 300 soft attack. What is making the Ponies that much stronger?My doctrines were:>Assault infantry>Fire concentration>Support tanks>Rapid dominationUp to date tech in guns and arty
>>43306187>meta games and minmaxes>is surprised that division is OPHow dumb can you be?
>>43306041I have been annoyed with the devs ever since they established the 'rule' that no characters from the show could be directly killed in any path to prevent people being upset that their favorite died in some other literal who's playthrough. It's ridiculous.
>>43306041Sombra in this mod isnt a good guy at all, and these marriage events are OLD. really old. There one of the things I hope do get removed as they rework Equus.
>>43306226My own submod will fix this.
>>43306238He is talking about the comics, you retard. >>43306041speaking of that, I tried making the althistory EAW back in the day, together with Sig, but I am kist too depressed to actually continue the work, I always think about coing back to it
We did make the map for it, some leaders and nation names, but no work beyond that was done
>>43306282Damn, big Lake City.
I assume we can expect the 42% event?
>>43306633>Can we have pony nation content?no, instead you get hyenas. Yetis. Bears. and this fucking tranny thing. Someone REALLY needs to make a branch of EAW where everything in zebrica is cut out. and people can work on their own shit. I dont want anything to do with base EAW anymore and would gladly sign up to help out.
>>43306633>These people are the face of "My Little Pony" in the war gaming communityFuuuuuuuuuuck, the worst part is I know the devs frequent these threads and giggle to themselves like the disgusting quasimodos they are when people complain.>>43306729They kidnapped the Pony image to push their own OCs/world. Equestria, Crystal Empire and the Changelings should be their own mod, super in depth with an inmense map. Cut the stalliongrad crap, cut the other 2 continents. Just make a new mod that focuses solely on Equestria at war in depth like those Barbarossa games.
>>43306765that would be perfect, the original idea of the mod brought back to how it should be. If anyone wants to start organizing something like this I would sign up to start doing art and coding right away. Seeing that tranny has made me completely want to stop working on the little submod I was making.
It's been a while, but I did another one of my A-Z games. This time it was Icepaw Provisional Directorate, because their focus tree came out after my Kasa run.I stuck with the yeti women, and decided to go the more wholesome route, which I guess means not pissing off the zebras. Conquered what the focus tree lead me too (some of them declared on me, actually), and did most of the focuses (just leaving some navel ones out).Pros:>A lot of conquest opportunities.>Lots of completely optional lore and story dialogue.>Cool unique yeti stuff.Cons:>The wars are a little on the easy side. I don't know if it's because your enemies are just weak, or the AI is that bad, though I'm leaning towards the latter.>While it's nice to have the lore, the dialogue in general feels a little bit too long-winded (at least its optional, so this is a minor complaint).Overall, after hearing about all the complaints directed to this nation when it came out, I felt pleasantly surprised by its quality. There are some fun, albeit easy wars, a nice story, even though the main character leader wasn't super interesting and the tree did lead you to conquering pretty much all of your neighbors at some point. It does make me curious as to how the communist routes or the less wholesome yeti routes are. Has anyone played those?Next up would be Lake City.
>>43306729>Yetis. BearsYetis and Bears are nice. The only issue with Icepaw is that it should have come later, some more warmongering yeti warlord should have come first to actually pose threat to the continent
>>43306765>>43306771I have been thinking about making a mod for personal use and reading this thread has given me the push I needed, I have modded quite a bit for smaller projects on Vanilla and Kaiserreich, for EaW it is one where I change almost all traces of Communism to "Equalism" (would still leave some nations where a strain of Communism makes more sense). Stalliongrad doesn't exist, instead it is Starlight and our town. She would be the Marx/Lenin of the world imo. The setting is that Starlight hasn't been dealt with, simple as, the world of EaW has a lot of actual serious fucking threats, spies, actual genocidal armies, militant satanists (I assume maar is satan), terrorist batponies and so on, so Starlight is simply lower on the list because on the surface she isn't doing anything that dangerous... Right? She expands for a while without triggering a war, then goes full on expansionist during the great war.I hate Communism in this mod because WHY NOT FUCKING USE CONTENT FROM THE SHOW, WHY INSERT YOUR FAVORITE IDEOLOGY WHEN IT MAKES NO SENSE.Communism irl failed completely to erase racial differences and just became everywhere a sort of nationalist ideology (like the "Communism in one country" policy of Russians, modern China, even European socialism is about your own workers first, neighboring nations be damned, our farmers and workers go first!). Why would the Ponies adopt an ideology like that and claim that they are friends? Bullshit. On the other hand, Equalism fits better for everyone because of that reason. With Equalism, you can easily reimagine it without changing it from the canon as a collectivist ideology "we are all equal, even the most talented Ponies and griffons fight for a truly equal world!" type of idea.In my mod, Glimmer can stay a hypocrite at the top, all creatures are "equal" except she is more equal than others :). And a secondary path where she actually starts believing what she praises... Eventually.....Sidenote, that was just an idea, but I am actually working on a personal mod for the diamond dogs in diamond mountain, nothing big, adding a for fun path for supremacy where they become aggressive to its logical extreme. Dogs are good at killing and eat everything, the mod I am making has them defeat and feast on griffon nations, deleting their populace, eventually Pony nations too, with their leader portrait becoming more monstrous with time.
>>43307608>I assume maar is satanMaar is lot more like Lucifer from Milton´s Paradise Lost. Because he is the one who gives griffons their souls and is generally lot more about freedom and chaos than evil.
>>43307752He's evil tho.
>>43308198He isn't. He doesn't do anything particularly evil in the story.
>>43308647hard to be evil or good when you are a fake good that never existed.
>>43308647Maar is a god. He is not a direct character. Plus any nation that worships him is evil.
>>43308758Not really, Sunstriker is not evil.
Barrad rework soon, brothers.
>>43309038cool
>Switching between continents in the country selection screen will now be much easier thanks to the new filters system,>though we will be ditching the race filters as this is a much better use case for it
“After the Storm” 2.6.2.1 Additions: Two new generals for Aquileia and Chiropterra.Changes: Added special forces doctrine penalties to science base and illiteracy. Reworked the country selection screen. Crystal Empire, New Mareland and Equestria now start with unicorn company tech. Longsword and Chiropterra now start with special forces doctrine unlocked. AI now should use regimental support. Special forces attack factor in doctrines have been reverted to their pre-DLC state. Changeling Lands: Gets additional mastery bonuses from a focus and an event. Starts with air torpedo technology. Now gets some state category upgrades from focuses. Added a MIO fund gain bonus to a national spirit. The starting HQ template has been changed from light tanks to motorized. Equestria: Minor balancing tweaks. Improved faction icon. Hippogriffia: Posada's global liberation spirits reduce wargoal tension. Nova Griffonia: Adjusted civil war balancing. Olenia: Starts with winter logistics support company. Gets additional air bases from a focus. Pingland: Redrawn generic male penguin admiral. Stalliongrad: Reduced duration of a focus. Starts with extra 75 000 ponypower. A focus that created a magical facility now instead gives a breakthrough bonus. Wingbardy: Improved faction icon.
Fixes: Standardized templates with or without No Step Back DLC for several countries. Fixed generic Griffonian focus tree not removing primitive economy law. Night override diplomacy map fix. If Hippogriffia forces Wingbardy to release Abyssinia as part of the North Zebrican War, Klugetown and Manedalusia will now be transferred to Abyssinia if previously controlled by Wingbardy. The South Griffonian decision to establish the Protectorate of New Mareland will no longer wrongly reference Neustutenland. Fixed Winggarden spawning when it shouldn't. Fixed the too-low HP increase from the pegasi special project and the too-high supply use increase from the knights special project. Aztlan: Word Bearer can no longer be captured as a general. Bronzehill: Fixed not getting decisions to attack claims under some circumstances. Changeling Lands: Fixed missing regimental support in division templates. Equestria: Fixed Solar Empire faction not getting a unique icon. Feathisia: Fixed free healthcare national spirit availability. Griffonian Empire: Fixed some focus bypasses. Griffonian Republic: Added missing regimental support companies for Cloudburian Knights. Jaki-Clan: Fix for Kerr conquest. Katerin: Fixed the conditions for the focus "Station Our Trusted Peacekeepers". Nimbusia: Fixed a DLC check. Nova Griffonia: Added missing regimental support companies in some civil war templates. Now retains focus tree on puppeting. Fixed some focus bypasses. Fixed Ulla boost to civil war. Fixed an instance of losing the country color. Sicameon: Focuses are available for puppets. Stalliongrad: Fixed a focus bypass. Fixed state category upgrades in focuses.
Zarantia: Fixed techs granted in event "The Zarantian Navy". Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements. Miscellaneous localisation fixes.Checksum 77db // Image by 鱿鱼王/Squid KThis update SHOULD be save compatible with 2.6.2, but some fixes will require a new game.
>>43309597nice
>History of the Workers' Republic!>Иcтopия Paбoчeй Pecпyблики!
>>43310469Stalliongrad fuckins sucks and makes no sense lore wise. You are telling me Celestia was just so damn evil she let her people go hungry? No one helped them, not even Twilight paid them a visit to see what's up, no. Everyone just went "we Ponies are racist now, fuck you Slavic Ponies, die of hunger bitches".I hate it so fucking much, it literally goes against every moral value of the show. I hate it like you have no idea, I wish the people who created Stalliongrad death, to them and their families. They don't love Pony, they hate, they must masturbate to the idea of communism and their OCs conquering the world of my little Ponies.Anyone who supports stalliongrad in any capacity is not a true mlp fan.
>>43310770It doesn't say anything about famine in >>43310469 so it might be removed in the rework as it was always nonsens,
>>43310469I'm reading through this, and it might just be my own lack of knowledge on EAW's history, but this kind of sucks. Maybe it's biased to a communist perspective and it's literally propaganda, but I just don't really like it.Shouldn't the Crystal Empire have collapsed in 1 BLB? Because Luna used the elements of harmony with Celestia?
>>43310852I mean, introduction screens are always written from the perspective of each nation. That is how it works.
>>43310852>Shouldn't the Crystal Empire have collapsed in 1 BLB? Because Luna used the elements of harmony with Celestia?Also Crystal Empire would have disappeared way before 1BLB.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtBqTFsiLxM&t=1sThis is the only canon I will ever accept.
>>43310923That makes sense. Maybe it's because I'm reading it outside of the game that it feels so off.
Hey anons, quick question, does the Griff empire ever declare an offensive war on the republics? I want to unlock the doctrine desperate defense, but the empire never seems to be the aggressor bruhI know for a fact the republics are even bigger cucks and never declare war on the empire, as the archon I have had to wait till 1015 to be declared on, 8 fucking years after game start. I hoped the empire would be more aggressive with me as the republics but it is 1012 and nothing is happening.
There's a pretty wide level of unpredictability for the AI because the war declaration (from the Empire against the Republic, that is) is reliant on them picking the focus that grants a wargoal, and the Empire's AI doesn't always prioritize it. Even if it did, there's a level of randomness to the AI meaning there's no set date that you can expect an invasion in.
>>43311012Yes. Their focus tree does lead them to it, but it can take a while and usually the republics are the aggressors.
>>43311206Maybe the republics were just strong.
>>43311206I think the Empire has a rough date set where they are supposed to take that focus
Are militia worth using?
>>43312372If you play small nation and you know you will be on defense the whole game they are quite good. They are pretty good for Yaks or Nova Griffonia. Dont forget to pick appropriate doctrines that buff them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQP8em6qT0Nice HOI4 teaser. I bet its for the Luxemburg update.
>>43312663If it's the last HOI4 DLC as some say, I'm scared of the implications for EAW.CK3 release killed Guardians of Azeroth and AGOT.
>>43312695>killedAGOT is completed as a mod, and people still play it. GoA was also pretty complete for nations that mattered. Nothing stops you from playing a game or mod just because a new version releases. Don't fall for the FOMO anon. Anyway, I am still sad nobody made EaW for CK. It would work way better than HoI. Because fundamentally it focuses on characters and their stories. HoI is unsuitable for EaW.
>>43312744>Anyway, I am still sad nobody made EaW for CK. It would work way better than HoI. Because fundamentally it focuses on characters and their stories. HoI is unsuitable for EaW.Other way around. CK is terrible for total conversion mods. It's not a game about characters, it's a game about dynasties, where years pass in a blink of an eye. Thrall, Ned Stark, whatever canon character you like, will be dead in no time. Things won't be much better when they're alive - since CK doesn't have a historical mode or direction, and is driven by random events, you get ridiculous shit like Twilight Sparkle becoming a serial killer. CK players like to talk about "emergent stories", but it's really not, it's the same 200 events repeating endlessly for every character in the game. How many times have you absent-mindedly clicked through an event about your council complaining about the dog at a meeting?HOI4, meanwhile, operates on a timescale of 10-15 years at most, with a story that can be told through events and focuses. Permutations are limited by the amount of alt history focus trees, of course, but a limited number of stories is better than no story at all.
>>43312905Clearly, you have never played any CK total conversion mod, because that is a complete load of bullshit. CK is literally about characters, because dynasties are made up of individual characters. And the events are not random either, because you can make story events and branching events and branching story chains leading to different outcomes. And it does have "historical" mode because just like in HOI you can set AI values on what you want it to do.
>>43312914>CK is literally about charactersOkay, name one character in any CK conversion mod with a famous story. Like, say, Taboritsky. Go ahead. Name one. You can't, there are no such characters any total conversion mods.
>>43312919You just keep proving that you literally did not play CK total conversion mods. For once there is Saruman in LOTR mod, Deanerys or Stannis in AGOT, and Malekith in Gehaimnissnacht.
>>43312928I'm in fucking awe.
>>43312935>character acting like character he is supposed to be is a bad thingYou have literally said and I cite:>you get ridiculous shit like Twilight Sparkle becoming a serial killerSo which one is it then? You faggot
>>43312941Listen, you subhuman mongoloid chimera. I know that your uncle knocking up your mother ruined your chances at life, but it's none of my fault, and I shouldn't have to use simple words to talk to you. I'll try to anyway, because I'm feeling charitable, and I want even somebody who was born through his mother's asshole a chance at education.>>43312935This is not a story. I know that it may seem otherwise to you, but this is not a story even when your standards are impossibly low. This is a bare minimum scripted event.I've told you to bring me anything on the level of Taboritsky. Now get to work.
>>43312952You are such,,,, It is literally an event that is part of the character´s story. Because CK is as I have stated multiple times a character-driven game. You dont have single long ass events like HOI4 that has to fit as much as it can in these events. The events are spaced across time dependant on the character´s personality, bloodline, claims, faith, culture and special events written specifically for the said character. And all of them together make a story.Stop acting fecetious.Also, ATLA is another great total conversion mod that had quite a bit of althistory too.
>>43312935Not pony. Sad.
>>43312372They got good subdoctorines.
I know no one uses the falcor war subdoctrine, but does anyone else hate the name? Why call it falcor war infantry? The falcor war isn't even a big war, it was a war between 2 shitholes.Why not call it after any of the other important wars, like, Grover's 2 infantry or something. Or "Nimbusian style infantry" the one that killed Grover. It is supposed to be an old but effective for their time doctrine. Falcor and wingbardy are nobodies, nobody cares about those bastards, their war was like 2 faggots hitting themselves with dildos.
>>43313950Falcor war is literally a big war. it decides the fate of the South griffonia. Whether Wingbardy wins and restores its glory, or if the freedom prevails and Concordat establishes democracy.
>>43314052>meine Ary in das Background<3
>>43313950Falcor war was small, but it was the latest and most modern war Griffonia has seen. It was the first time planes were used in combat. It was like a very small and localized WW1.>Or "Nimbusian style infantry" the one that killed Grover. It is supposed to be an old but effective for their time doctrine. Grover II lived in the age of swords and bows. He was killed by a spear to the face. I don't think Nimbusian-style infantry would be very effective in the era of mobile warfare.
I want to play herzland unifiers that kill gr*ver, I know gr*ver jr is the beloved darling of discord users, I want to read all events about his death because every time gr*ver suffers discord users suffer too. Nations that can kill him>Based Dawnclaw salivating while he kills him>Suntails' Griff Republic, epic public execution>The Stalin parody in griefenmarshen, simply shot by a soldier under Stalin's order, no mercy, also no regret, basedThere really are almost no unifiers that kill him huh.
>>43314174>There really are almost no unifiers that kill him huh.Why would you kill a usefull puppet, symbol or a rightful king? Only thing I am sad that isnt a thing, is more content for Citizen Grover. Living under the Republic order. It would also be fun if he could become a President like the son of the last Bulgarian Tsar.
>>43314174Hey anon! It also happens that i share the same hate for that stupid chick too! So i created a small list of countries that kill him. Enjoy!Longsword under golden morningThe ascendancy (although not explicitly but implied) Falcoria supremacy path with falcor stands eternal mod (you have to endure all the lesbian/gay shit tho) I think the pomovarra commie path on GoY mod has an event that kills him too.Speaking on that does anypony know what happened to that edgy reformisten dawnclaw russian mod? I really wanted to play that but it is outdated as fuck and it seems the dev has just vanished
>>43313950It's like if WW1 happened 10-20 years later in OTL. Then trench warfare would likely be called either Boer War doctrine or Russo-Japanese doctrine. Manchurian war doctrine?
>>43314174Supremacist Aquileia kills the child once they establish the Herzland "sister republic"
>>43314193Because there are a lot of unifiers that have nothing to do with monarchy? Yet 99% of Commies just forgive him, only Stalin kills him, literally no other Commie, not the "political terror" Victor Allard guy in Aquileia, not the skynavians who are even willing to kill kemerskai but somehow grover is too much of a lovely guy to kill, not the anarchists, no one. The new monarchies like in Katerin also forgive him. Harmonists forgive him, sure, whatever. But even non aligned or supremacist republicans forgive him, what, some of these guys are brutal evil dictators yet they just forgive grover and give him a dacha to live in?. Also it is extremely telling that you are a dev or a mod in the EaW discord because you are 90% of the posts here, you are the only person keeping this thread alive and all your posts defend the mod and defend non pony content.
>>43314233I am not a dev, why are you projecting this hard? I am critiquing plenty of stuff.Anarchists in Angriver are pretty chill. Yale Anarchists literally do shoot him. Katerin Socialists are religious and traditional and they send him for priestly reeducation and teach him traditional values. Kogchel is not a commie just a demsoc and very modoerate one. Feathisian commies are Stallionists and even Stalliongrad can cooperate with Equestria. Duek Erebus in Feathisia can kill him I think. Dogs are Dogs. Katerin monarchists are knights at core so of course they wouldnt kill him. Angriver Baron does kill him. Strawberry commies are again relatively moderate.Angriver Republicans I am pretty sure do kill him if they go with he fat guy.
>>43314342>Duke Erebus in Greiffenmarschen
>Reminder that Stalliongrad commies are larpers, Baltimare is the true cradle of the revolution
>>43314526Shitgrad
>>43314526everything about caramel marks in the mod screams troon shit, even the design is troon garbage with the vibrant neon light blue color with white at the end of the hair (literal furry/troon fashion)if I knew who the devs were in real life, I would just grab my gun and kill them. They don't deserve to bastardize the MLP franchise. Why hasn't Hasbro sent a C&D again?
>>43314677It can't be a troon if she is literally a mare. Which of course is shit. Marks should have been a cute twink. Devs are retards for making every character a femoid.
>Something people often forget about the Dread League is that it is a League, meaning that there are more characters than just Rosa Maledicta.>In the Dread League, there are seven factions vying for Rosa'a attention. Each will offer a unique gameplay mechanic or gimmick for you to utilize for your world conquest, and you can mix and match any number of them if you like multiple factions (though some may prove harder to work with than others).>Here are all of the factions and their leaders. Three are necromancer aligned, three are vampire aligned, and the one in the center is independent. Note that none of them can replace or usurp Rosa. She is the Dread Lord and they will answer to her.
>>43315575I hated how the dread league didn't have any other characters. Idk if I'll like these ones but it's something I guess
>>43277134Is there a show construction speed mod that works with EAW? It keeps crashing for me, and I don't know shit about modding so I can't fix it.
>>43315687Frankly it is an ancient tree, I used to think Barrad got a fine rework, now even that feels dated
>>43315575I thought Rubra was supposed to be in Westkeep
>>43315842Both of those are way more fun than most modern trees that we´ve got recently. Abyssinia, Lan Kir, Kiria, Hindia, Warzena, Icepaw, Zarhay, Celestial State and Yaks/Jaks were all really bad, not fun and I feel no desire to replay them after playing them once.
I kind of wish to dip my feet into the water and play mp with anons from /mlp/. What kind of games does the resident host, well, host? Is it all chaos random nations where an actual pro just obliterates everyone with practically no opposition and doesn't let you form the empire, form aquileia, form wingbardy, etc or is it like an structured game where groups choose to be Equestria and co vs the bugs, or the republics vs a pair playing the empire, or a group playing the empire vs a group playing the river federation?
>>43316149It can differ, but its usually pretty chill.
>>43315842>I used to think Barrad got a fine rework, now even that feels datedWait, what we have now is reworked?!Well, what was it like before?
The devs are aiming for Crystal Empire this year, and Stalliongrad and Our Town next year.
Sombra's new portrait. How do we feel about it?
>>43316271Looks shit, the current portrait is way cooler
>>43316191It isn't, it only got some minor visual facelift.
>>43316271It's much better than the rest of the remade portraits they have been giving to the starting leaders on Equus but I still prefer the current one.
>>43316271As long as it isn't the blatantly furry shit every single other portrait is
>>43316555Oh yea, that is true, in terms of remade portraits, it is definitely better looking. But the current one is definitely cooler.
>>43316529>>43316191It used to be a generic tag with no plans for uplifting, the original three cents of lore was that silver star was a lousy mage lobotomizing ponies and sending them to war. Then they added the pentarchy and shit
>>43316933That never had a focus tree though. It was just a nebulous lore, that got changed when the actual work on the tag started. So I dont count that as a rework. Do not care to cite ancient lore to me, I have been there when it was written.
>>43317016it had decisions, you had to kidnap foreign citizens to bring to your capital, it was like a mini dread league, there was a time where it didn't even have that though. The initial work was trying to make it a one-man show with Silver Star and his special mechanics, the pentarchy was a rework, with Ambrosius taking the lead
>>43317492Kidnapping is fun.
>>43316271Not bad.
>>43317492No offense tho twilight anon, I know you're hardcore when it comes to the mod, you probably were there before griffonia was added
>>43316271kewl>>43316528you will never be satisfied with anything that comes to pass
>>43317492I mean that is a placeholder content yea. Technically, it is still there, with the raiding mechanic. >>43318117The new portrait would only be acceptable if they do the picrel
>>43315575Clearly, they forgot one more path
>Thanks to the amazing GFX work of @Raiden , the Crystal Empire is going to have EAW's very first custom Focus Titlebar! You may recognize these from the vanilla Nordic joint focus tree; they're unique designs for the part of the focus with its name (i.e., not the icon, the text beneath). Radiant Hope's focuses use her cutie mark and stained glass, to make them immediately visible in the tree!
>>43318593Ok that just looks confusing as fuck, art is now but the user experience is gonna suck
>>43318672It is not confusing, anon. You are either retarded or are just looking for the most random reason to bitch about the mod.
>>43318842No, he is right. It is really confusing to have to check the colour of a tiny dot in the middle. When is it better to have the entire field be either brown or golden. This will be especially bad if the focus tree is really big. It also makes it harder to read the focus names.
>>43318864I agree, it's cool but they should be more clearly distinguished.
Me waiting for the next mp game like
>>43319053You wont.
I love mares with guns.
why is this mod the first result when you google racism 2?
>>43319811Especially flare gun
>googles the exact word>acts like it is surprising that he gets that resultWhy are you such a flaseflagger?
I am replaying anarchist yale after years, just to re read the events. Did all the events change and get rewritten? I vividly remember an event about both government forces and anarchists in a stand off, ready to shoot each other until an actual senior officer comes from the side of the anarchists and asks his old subordinates to stand down. That event is nowhere to be found, now it is about the medical university students taking sides and supporting the anarchists. All events seem to be slightly different and desu even tho the writing is top tier, they kinda feel less revolutionary and more like a weird fanfiction of "what if the american left, the intellectuals, were simply so influential and based that everyone just supports us because we are so damn wholesome chungus!" Idk, I am getting this vibe from the new yale. I think it fits them better but I miss the old events.
>>43320067>revolutionary and more like a weird fanfiction of "what if the american left, the intellectuals, were simply so influential and based that everyone just supports us because we are so damn wholesome chungus!" Idk, I am getting this vibe from the new yale. I think it fits them better but I miss the old events.That is what anarchist Yale was always like, you either had that or go with the father issues insane (based) leftist.
Is there a leader that wanted to kill their dad?
I am playing the new Bronzehill for the first time since the rework, yeah it's fine in concept BUT I just miss the old names, I miss the dogs being a mix of germans and Korean, I miss Kimball Barking Sun, I miss Rosey Luxembark and Ernst Thalpoodles. The new names, the new characters, are not fun, they are nobodies.>The events are nicely writtenYes>And the gameplay is decent for all pathsYes, I agree on both accountsBut it is just not the same, the dogs being parodies of real life people had so much fucking charm. Only Winston Copperhill survived the rework AND YOU CAN'T EVEN KEEP HIM AS LEADER. If I am not mistaken, the Bronzehill dev wasn't a part of the dev team prior to it, he was an outsider allowed to come in and change the dogs to his liking because he made friends with the clique. Damn man, the new dogs suck. Their gameplay is fine but they don't have a soul anymore. I read his posts on his garbage reasoning for changing the names>Hurr my nation is serious, I am a serious dev, take me seriously hurr, a fictional dog nation that isn't even canon to MLP needs to be serious af! I hate the fact their names are cute parodies, I am a disgusting no fun troon!What a fucking bastard.
>>43320717ugly
>>43320413Literally Yale commie leader
>>43320717Events aren't even that well-written, they are quite boring, making Loudbark into stratocratic militarist is so boring. He should have been an imperial loyalist like pre-rework, keeping the imperial institutions as they were, only radicalising if Grover gets shot.Gameplay is also not good, because the rework still didnt adress how weak Bronzhill is, with having no manpower or factories, making it even longer to get rid of debuffs and not giving that much in terms of buffs during unification which is when you especially need them.
>>43321198I appreciate your post, yeah I actually hate everything about the new dogs but I didn't want to spout more hatred, other anons already did. EaW is unironically becoming tno in terms of garbage reworks and characters.I don't know when or how they lost the magic (of friendship heh) but it sure as hell is noticeable. EaW is deleting all the mesmerizing nations and regions they once had for mini game slop and troon writing, what was the beginning of the end? We need a fork of the mod.
>>43321355It is not hatred to critique something. You can criticise things you like, in fact, you should. The issue is that most devs lack imagination or desire to actually go in-depth with nations. Because there are bursts of greatness and interesting stuff, but it needs more. It needs the same autism that Bears, Zarantia, Tobuck and Azir have. Icepaw, Abyssinia, Lan Kir, Kiria, Zar Hay, Zongo or Hyeans all have bursts of greatness but they are not developed properly. Like how Hyenas and Icepaw and Zar Hay all have basically the exact same endgame, becoming a big blob or puppet lord in the region. Or how Abyssinia can create a Witch Queendom, but it is just bog standard authoritarian state with nothing really esoteric or magical to it.
>>43321355>I don't know when or how they lost the magic (of friendship heh) but it sure as hell is noticeable.I'm just disappointed they never took the idea someone had of a Fascist Party somewhere trying really hard to be proper supremacists and be nativist and the like but in game they're actually Harmonists de facto and are frustrated they keep accidentally making best friends with everyone and keep failing to be mean enough, maybe with a Punchline at the end by Beakaloni that 'maybe the real Fascismo is the friends we made along the way'
>>43321476Sounds fun, there are quite a few nations where it could work.
>>43319072The lobby is up! Game will be starting at 18:30!ID: 90287819451923471PW: /mlp/Mods: Equestria at War, Player Led Peace Conferences, State Transfer Tool MPHotjoin and coop will be on.
>>43321531As a recommendation, I would advise adding the link to the mods. There are a lot of player led peace conferences and state transfer tool mps
>>43321556https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1826643372https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846066944https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1368778634
>>43321531>Host has another version of the gamePdx slights me again
>>43321572 It's the current version and there are 2 other people here already. Perhaps its the wrong version of state transfer?
>>43321575Different guy, It's Siege, it's probably just steam workshop being gay and retarded
>>43321579maybe try restarting the mod? Do you want us to wait?
>>43321585I'm troubleshooting rn, you guys can start though, it's gonna be casual for me anyway since I haven't played since TAOG
>>43321588ok, I wish you luck troubleshooting
>>43321531GG!
>>43321531Fitting.
>>43315575There are no words to describe how much Libra NEEDS to be bred.She needs to be turned into a Welost picture.
>>43315575I find Sanctae kinda hot.
>>43323115Boring, I wish Stalliongrad was doing the Land Cruisers. They already missed that chance with Aquileia; if they waste that opportunity with Stalliongrad too, it will be horrendous.
>>43323125I mean, they get a 2-year ahead of time for Heavy tanks, they can get them ridiculously early if you focus it down
>>43323125Even with buffs to research speed, land cruisers come in too late to be useful.
>>43323115Nice.
Anons help, is one of you a hacker perhaps? I can't log in to my steam account. I forgot my account+password, and the gmail I use is for some reason not letting me enter either, I don't remember changing my Gmail password in years and I even logged in a month ago but now I can't log in and says my password is wrong. I might be suffering from Alzheimer's or some crap because I don't remember changing it.Anyway, I can't get a recovery email, so I tried to contact steam's support. A quick google search told me to just type what I think was my account name into the box even if it was wrong non stop, and that eventually a human contact support option would appear. Google lied, my IP is blocked and has been blocked for 12 hours now, I can no longer try any recovery method. I have lost my access to hoi4 forever, I hate steam so fucking much.
>>43323937sure dude, just wait out the jewgle block or vpn and reset gmail, go from there, also ask /g/ and/or an aior just socially engineer your target, you're not a skiddie, are you?
Did another A-Z game. This time it was Lake City.I went with the Princely path. Sadly, taking over the Federation took a bit too long this time, so the Empire pretty much took over and cored most of the rest of the continent, meaning that it would take way too long to build up sufficiently to beat them given all their industry and 9m ponypower at low conscription, so I ended the run there.Pros:>Good supported expansion opportunities. If you do better then me, you can form the Holy Pony Empire.>Interesting mix of Serbia and Imperial Japan.>Fun war against the Coalition.Cons:>You can easily get screwed over, or have some wars trivialized based off what the AI goes for, so the war might not be that interesting at times.>Focus tree, while not horrible, feels outdated with lots of 70 day focuses.A fun nation, if not a bit dated. Obviously an easy pick if you want a fun war-filled experience, but somewhat luck-reliant. If you want to play this path, I would actually suggest going for the Empire first before they can get too big, unless they fall early or your confident you can blitz the coalition.Next up would be Lan Kir Militarchy.
>>43323470With generic research, yes, but not if you make a specific path that would prioritise them and get buffs for them. The Great War Bat leader should absolutelly do Land Cruisers.
I am playing river federation nations and Bakara seems to be militarily stronger than the river republic, no? river republic is entirely defensive boni, Bakara has a couple army wide atk spiritsWittenland has the best magical infantry hands down, either that or extra max entrenchment that is ridiculous. But they don't seem to have good offensive capabilities.
>>43324360It may seem like it at start, but Bakara is actually incredibly weak. Because their manpower is really limited. Rijekograd can easily outproduce them by 1010.
>>43324366They all form the river federation anyway, and their manpower gets fixed. If you mean Rijekograd's+25% pop factor, that only happens if they go the golden curtain path which is worse for industry and stability by far. Rijekograd's industry seems to be the best, yeah, the Equestria of the East path gives them a lot of stability which means extra production too even during war staying above 100%. Decent efficiency cap, growth, output, and construction innate to their focus tree too. But no atk boni, only 10% defense.Wittenland has like a +20% or +30% construction speed but I didn't see any efficiency cap or factory output boni, just some growth.Bakara has weaker industrial boni than Rijekograd's, but more production than wittenland. Bakara also has that army wide +5% atk modifier. Idk how much that +5% influences combat.Nimbusia would obviously be the best unifier army spirit wise but they are too slow.
>>43324389No, River Republic just on its own has a bigger population than Bakara and can easily outproduce them in terms of spamming out divisions. Also, Bakara´s funnest paths are Commies, Supremacists and Admiral. Two of those to form the Federation have to go to war with it. And Admiral forming Greater Bakara, which she can of course still get into conflict with the Federation.
Can a pirated copy of hoi4 play multiplayer? Asking for a friend
>>43324473yes, but set up takes a bit of efforthttps://www.reddit.com/r/CrackSupport/comments/u1hwn6/hoi4_multiplayer_crack/
>>43324482>efforttoo hard
>>43324360Furry pony needs her army.
>>43324473Genuinely just buy the base game (10$ rn) and use creamapi to unlock the dlcs (you will need to grab the physical files and put them in the folder though--I can make a mega link of those if you need)
>>43325292this
>>43325292>giving 10 bucks to PDXWhy not donate to xer transition directly?
>>43325761I mean, it's cheap, and it is one of the greatest games ever made...
>>43325763>one of the greatest games ever madelol lmao even
>>43325779Unironically it is.
>>43325763>it’s cheapnothing is cheap when 15% of young people are unemployed where I live.I already got my wallet raped ~50$ just for a fucking 8 pack of domestic beer and specialty imported beer. If a game is single player, torrent it.If a game is multiplayer, then crack it, if that game is good then only is it advisable to actually pay for it.
>>43325784>if that game is good I mean, it is really good. Great even.
>>43325783ahahahaha, please stop, my sides>>43325784>50 for 8 pack By Celestia, where do you live? Even in Slovakia, it is not this expensive.
>>43325790I'm serious. Why are you even here if you don't like it?There is simply very few games that match the sheer dopamine HOI4 gives me. It's genuinely incredible.
>>43325792There is a difference between liking a game and calling it the best game ever made. Modern PDX is trash and deserves nothing, not even 10 bucks. I didn't even bother to pirate the last two DLCs anymore.>muh dopamineI see that explains it, zoomer-kun
>>43325799I will continue to call it one of the best games ever made. It is genuinely incredible and I will die on that hill.
>>43325790>By Celestia, where do you live? Even in Slovakia, it is not this expensive.I said ~50$ for a 8 pack of domestic beer and a 6 pack of import beer. Still ridiculous since the import was ~22$ before tax. I think the cheapest booze is 7.50$ for 750ml of no name vodka
>>43325886to be fair, you said >I already got my wallet raped ~50$ just for a fucking 8 pack of domestic beer and specialty imported beer. So I assumed the import was just singular.>I think the cheapest booze is 7.50$ for 750ml of no name vodkaI am still curious where you are from, because I can get a wine for that price.
There is something that confuses me about the tech in EaW, I know it is supposed to take from WW2 tech. But Ponies already had more advanced tech than what was seen in WW2. Ponies have videogames (Button Mash is infamous for playing a switch like console), that alone should mean Ponies already have extremely advanced electronics. Ponies have photos in color, not black and white polaroids. That really puts into perspective just how trash the EaW lore is, why not create an entirely new tech system? WW2 was a war where people still lived like fucking cavemen, they didn't have any tech other than "gun shoots small bullet, cannon shoots big bullet, cannon on wheels wunderwaffen panzer :D". See what I mean? I can see the extremely poor griffon nations have nothing like how Africans even today live in mudhuts and don't know what a light bulb is. But Equestria?
>>43326006EaW is not 1:1 of MLP, how is that confusing? Best way to describe EAW is, that it is a Turtledove book but with ponies and other creatures >WW2 was a war where people still lived like fucking cavemen, they didn't have any tech other than "gun shoots small bullet, cannon shoots big bullet, cannon on wheels wunderwaffen panzer :DAh, sorry sorry, I assume Turtledove does not mean anything to you my zoomer fren.
I am playing Wittenland for the 1st time, how do I get the cute Pony leader with homophobia? How do I get the Congolese grandma Pony? And finally, can I form the federation first and then change ideologies? I like White Star but her being harmonic cucks her so hard from actually declaring war on the rest of griffonia or even on the river nations that refuse unification.
>>43326256Spirit Fire is a successor to Wulfric after he dies, when he achieves all his ambitions. Violet Plough is one of the Republican leaders if their revolt succeeds.
>>43326256>I like White Star but her being harmonic cucks her so hard from actually declaring war on the rest of griffonia or even on the river nations that refuse unification.Just change gamerules to free justification?
Dont forget to free the alliance joining too.
Are super heavies good?
>>43326722Yes.
>>43326006>That really puts into perspective just how trash the EaW lore is, why not create an entirely new tech system?Because if they took that kind of approach then there would be no mod at all.To actually make something, you need to make practical compromises. They are modding a WW2 simulator. Basing the tech on WW2 was an entirely sensible compromise.
>>43326722They have a place in meme builds but you have to know what you're doing early to make them usable in a reasonable timeframe.That being said I dig them
>>43327906>know what you are doingYou make it sound like rocket science. It is like with any other build. You just need to prioritise its research. get early tanks and first heavy tank and use any heavy tank research buffs you can get. It is really simple.
>>43326006I just assumed that Equestria is an outlier compared to other nations and that its technology is driven by savants filling a specific niche via their cutie marks.Personally I wish each race in EaW had a different tech tree entirely instead of just a single tab but that is a lot of scope creep.>>43326722Super heavies were kino until Paradox removed the option to have them as line battalions.It's a fucking sandbox game. I still don't understand why they did that.
>>43326722Absolutely, they are even better in EaW than vanilla because the EaW devs are fucking idiots that don't understand geography at all. They are subhuman retards, in what kind of brain do you create a world that is 95% plains??? Even our world has so few plains human civilization had to gather around small places at the beginning. Yet EaW has infinite plains, rivers that make no sense, and more. Anyway, super heavies don't have penalties in plains, it makes them Godlike for the mod.
>>43328084Rivers make sense.
>>43327606Cool.
>>43327964"know what you're doing" was to say having the build in mind from the get-go, as the super-heavies aren't something one can really get into adhocAnd don't be a nigger anon, there are plenty of tricks that are quite helpful to making SH's viable (constant-state conversion, heavy tank bonus(es) from armored infantry support subdoctrine, and research juggling for instance)
>>43328483You can convert normal heavies into super heavies? No way right? they are completely different chassis like mediums to heavies. Pardon my ignorance
>>43328593 Uh, no, constant-state conversion refers to having 2 lines dedicated to production of one tank (or plane for that matter), specifically in this case with all but 2-3 factories producing a version of the tank with the heavy machine gun (cheapest gun module) rather than whatever actual cannon you are going to use. This tank is then converted into the final product (basically just slapping the cannon on it), saving a great deal of scarce resources (tungsten and chromium) for only a little more IC since the resource cost of the cannon is applied to the entire tank normally
>>43328593>>43328653Here's something I made to try to showcase what it is and how effective it isRemember that you can only really do this after you get machine tools 4, otherwise the refit cost will kill any real benefit
>>43328703This looks way too annoying to do in an actual game.
>>43329097It's really not difficult to do once you get used to it, and it allows even resource-starved nations to build up a panzer corps. The amount you save on resources is ludicrous.Just remember to set the tank to be converted to outdated (brown), as they won't convert designs that are 'active' (green)
>Bothering with any of that>When the AI is retarded anyway
>>43329130^ this
Anons, aaaanoooooons, question about EaW/hoi4 mechanics. I know the resources that nations create on the map stay when you conquer them. Do the extra building slots they get from focuses also stay when you conquer them?
>>43329469Yes, building slots are tied to the state. Although, I never quite remember if noncore states are affected like the resources that you dont get all of them. I always forget to check.
>>43329474Resource extraction is tied to compliance (and occupation law) going to the occupied territories tab will let you see exactly how much you are getting.Alternatively you can click on the state with the resources itself and hover over the resources to get a breakdown for there specifically.
>>43329469Non-core states get -50% building slots after being fully annexed, which can delete factoriesAdded building slots from focuses/decisions stay however
>>43329500>Non-core states get -50% building slots after being fully annexedUhh, no the fuck they don't, I have literally no idea where you're pulling that information from but it is demonstrably false
>>43329592Huh, but didn't you get less factories from occupation? Building in those slots only gets you half of all factories at best
>>43329637Uh, not exactly, what percentage of the factories you obtain depends on your compliance and occupation law, in some circumstances even exceeding that which can be gained in core territory. Besides that, the distinction between building slots and what is gained from them should also be noted since things like synthetic refineries are not affected by occupation woes.
>>43329637>>43329649Also, it isn't that you get less factories (to say that it deletes them), but rather that the factories you have access to from occupation is less than what is actually there, improving based on compliance.
>>43329592>>43329649This information is very useful for new Mareland runs like MARESOC since they can't core anything and establishing puppets is kinda cringe because they don't adopt your ideology as slave states (still one of the most abhorrent decisions the devs have ever made, just give them a silhouette leader lazy fucks)
“After the Storm” 2.6.2.2 Additions: Added a new formable nation for horse countries. Added a griffon scientist icon. Bronzehill: Added an icon for the pacifism national spirits. Added an icon for focuses about attacking Evi valley. Changeling Lands: Added a news event for the Thoraxian civil war. Hippogriffia: Added a faction icon for Revintern. New Mareland: New voicelines.
Changes: Removed "change continent" button from country selection screen. All helicopter support companies can be paradropped. With the applicable DLCs, specforce doctrines now give either mastery or reduction, similar to other doctrines. Adjusted naval AI. Removed armoured car AI template. Added more ships to production lines of numerous countries. Increased stateview resource slot amount to equal vanilla amount. Bronzehill: Lowered some bonuses in Ignatius' Regency Tree. Changeling Lands: Disabled photo recon technology. Equestria: Weakened armies of both sides in the Lunar Civil War. Griffonian Republic: The AI is more antagonistic to non-Republican countries. Hippogriffia: Enabled unique train models. Lunar Empire: Weakened industry. Improved advisors. Starting army focus now provide designs for NSB and BBA like Equestrian Ministry of Defence. Adapt the Spitfire focus now gets air engine and air guns bonuses too. Increased time of removal Celestrial Resistance. Improved AI. Nova Griffonia: Authoritarians now require some naval control to sell Skull Island.
Fixes: Fixed manpower number and icon positions in state view. Fixed Storm Kingdom onmap decision history map. Fixed 1019 armored train having no model. Fixed some doctrine cost reductions. Bonuses to specforces doctrine are now correctly applied if you have either NCNS or AAT, rather than simply AAT. Some broken specforce doctrine buffs now work correctly. Aztlan: Fixed reduction to focus completion times. Equestria: Fixed Solar Empire faction not getting a unique icon. Fixed mastery nerf. Tried to fix Luna retaining advisor roles in Solar Empire. Fixed Stablein having too big of a production efficiency penalty. Griffonian Republic: Diplomatic focuses to interact with Aquileia are bypassed if already at war with Aquileia. "Agricultural Mechanization" focus now properly adds extra monthly population. Fixed April fools path not gaining country leader trait after unification war. Icepaw Provisional Directorate: Dual monarchy path can only make an alliance with the Ancient Pact if Hyenia doesn't exist. Will no longer automatically lose the historical Maregypt war if Timbucktu is owned by a puppet. Hopefully fixed "I am better" award. Made Commander assesments account for admirals too. Historical path must own Hyenia before it can declare war on the Ancient Pact. Stratocratic path will now declare war on all Hestraya instead of just Karkadannistan. Stratocratic Ibyz actually gets her trait from the final focus. Fixed Uzerasi revolt country not having zebra race idea after war declaration. Lan Kir: Fixed bugged motorised paratroopers template.
Lunar Empire: Friendship Express MIO no longer requires completing Urgent War Committee focus as Lunar Empire. New California Republic: Fixed unique MIO trait. Nova Griffonia: Sanity check for selling Skull Islands. Olenia: Will now keep its tree when puppeted. Romau: Fixed Union Restored national spirit not working. Fixed being unable to core Gryphia. Stalliongrad: OOB DLC parity. Yakyakistan/Jaki-Clan: Foreign policy sanity checks. Zar-Hay: Fixed edge case scenario of AI harmony faction winning the civil war but not getting the heir characters. Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements. Miscellaneous localisation fixes.Checksum e32c // Image by eniartuwuThis update SHOULD be save compatible with 2.6.2.1, but some fixes will require a new game.
>>43310770Why get mad over something you obviously did not even bother reading?
>>43329833he just wants to hate on the mod
>>43329833Stalliongrad literally goes against the show's canon you disgusting dev. We don't care about your OCs, why did you even create Stalliongrad if it had nothing to fucking do with the show? Because you are scum
>>43277134what is on the table and who is it mentioning?>loyalty element for salerainbow dash>drawing and gunrarity>book and figurinestwilight>sheathed swordhow applejack won the warnow what i dont know>bunch of crystals in a rowspike?>some silverware???>a briefcase with a buch of card holders?pinkie pie organization??has anyone figured this out?
>>43310469Stalliongrad still remains the most forced in nation in the entire mod. Fucking cut the nation at this point. it doesnt make sense. hell, just move it. That would be better. Make it take the place of skynavia, put it where sunstriker is. It makes no sense putting this shit pile on equus. Its a total character assassination to Celestia.
>>43330243Not really.
>>43329934>>43330243Stalliongrad can be easily fixed, if it actually gets proper rework. That is why I am gonna wait until its and Our Town rework is out. And oh boy I will seethe about it if it doesnt fix anything. At least the >>43310469 introduction screen doesnt seem to mention famine anymore, which is good and gives me some hope for it. Just seething about Stalliongrad and wanting to remove it makes you sound like a normalfag and probably a Xitterite too, who has never read a Turtledove or althistoryforum.net stories in his entire life.
>>43329804>Tried to fix Luna retaining advisor roles in Solar Empire.Cringe and gay. Luna should stay if Solar Empire formed during the war and Celestia went Empress Protector. Get it through your thick retarded skulls you dumb devs. Stop being retarded.
The same should actually happen in Lunar Empire, if NMM goes the mercy route, there should be reconciliation with Celestia.
>>43330581Your obsession with turtledove is bordering on mental illness faggot. You are the normalfaggot since you prefer stalliongrad over the show's canon, have you ever done some soul searching? Do you even like the canon show or the EaW devs and their ideas more?
>>43330667>prefer Stalliongrad No? I stated my preferences multiple times, that being Equestria, Solar Empire, Sombra, Polar Bears, Changelings, Barrad, Longsword, Dread League, Azir, Tobuck, Sirens, Wulfric Wittenland, Zarantia, Kása, Griffonian Empire, Yale and Haukland>obsession with Turtledove>over show canonI have no idea why you would think saying how a mod should be is an obsession, and I did also mention altihsitoryforum.net.And, I like show, but first of all, this is literally an althistory, and a war game, by definition, it is already as far from the show as it can get.
Are light tanks worth it in EaW? Because there is very little industry in this world and light tanks are the cheapest tonks
>>43331246I'd say only as scout tanks.
>>43331246Light tanks are pretty good even in vanilla, and they are quite good in EAW, because there are so many plains you can just blitz with them unimpeded except for occasional rivers or forests (which was always weird how little of those EAW has) and most of the wars happen pretty early too before you are able to get better tanks.
>>43330584>>43330590Agreed>>43331246They are fine as encirclement units since the geography in EaW is mostly flat. Don't expect them to push very well on their own though.
Medium tanks actually aren't much more expensive than lights until you put modules on them. Light armored recon is very good on your tank divisions if you can afford it.
Also, griffons and bears get a bunch of tank improvements in their race tech to the armour. So their light tanks are all the better.
What's the non steam page for the mod? Please don't say discord, I won't give them my data. Steam is such fucking garbage, it is not updating the mod no matter what I do, steam is truly the worst gaming app in history, it is such fucking garbage, Gabe is a disgusting fat fuck loser.I will just unsubscribe from the mod in steam and manually download every update. Steam sucks so fucking much, I hope epic games wins the war and humanity can get rid of steam forever.
>>43331351Try Moddb, that is how I actually got the mod initially before buying the game, back in 2016/7.I forgot when the first version of EAW came out exactly. I think ti was 2016 like autumn.
Apparently, it came out July 2017 according to AI. Tiem really is blending together sometimes.
Cold winter fast approaches, as we fearfully wait....
Hey anons, what if you travelled to Equestria and married the mare of your choosing BUT it is the EaW timeline (with Changeling nazis coming in to kill around 2-3 million mares, no mercy, even non combatants will be killed if caught). Would you>Volunteer and tell your wife to stay as far away as possible>Let her be conscripted while you stay home, since she asked you to stay home because she loves you and says it's her duty to defend Equestria>Go to war together, same battalion or whatever (Idk how armies work)You are both infantry, no comfy position like drone operator, Celestia is in dire need of manpower to hold the line so any choice you make you or your mare unfortunately end up in the frontlines.
>>43330584Nu-devs are retarded Discord troons. They're obessed with "balancing" existing and complete tags instead of adding content to tags that are unfinished or don't have content. AI bugs now play like sweaty MP players and rush the deer instead of attacking the polar bears first like they used to.
>>43331665truthnuke i wouldn't mind a rework(like adding more content) on griffon tags many of them are dust and finally make content to dragon countrys
>>43331699Some Griffon tags are old, but complete, but others (such as Wingfried's Hellquill) aren't actually finished.
>>43331665>AI bugs now play like sweaty MP players and rush the deer"Changeling Lands: The AI now takes longer to attack Olenia."
>>43331778So they finally reverted the retarded change that they made?
>>43331778they just want to let Olenia build them factories
Wait a minute, I was playing interventionist River Republic and maxed my infantry and support doctrine. Bakara formed the federation and I let it happen because why not? But the River federation didn't receive my maxed doctrines. Is that a bug? I vividly remember years ago the River federation adopted the doctrines of the nation further ahead in doctrine research.
>>43332029I mean, the doctrine system was very different years ago, it wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't find a satisfactory way to port it over to NCNS
>>43332053NCNS really is a retarded DLC overall.
>>43331789Partially.
>>43331654>with Changeling nazis coming in to kill around 2-3 million maresMakes no sense for changelings to kill ponies; they live off of the love. If anything, they would probably create some kind of factory to industrially farm love off of ponies (onions green).
>>43331665Changelings always attacked Olenia first as far as memory goes. And they always played like MP, to pose an actual threat in early war. THis is literally the old content made by Psodd. Stop outting yourself as a newfag.
>>43332574No, they always attacked the polar bears first, then the deer. They didn't play like sweaty MP players because they were still a threat anyway. The content is old, but the changes to the AI behaviour were relatively recent.
>>43332580I don't know how old you're talking, but the order has been Olenia-->Bears for at least 5+ years at this point
>>43332580Newfren.... please, stop embarrasing yourself. Psody was well known for wanting Changelings to feel like challange and always being on the clock and having to early war Equestria if they wanted to succeed, and needing to play sweaty.He was also notorious for always making chanelings a bit harder the more people whinned about them being hard. He was based strugglefag.>>43332593Pretty much
When are we getting focus trees for tags like Deponya and Griffonstone?
Zebrica continues to disappoint.
>>43332645But the Changeling AI didn't. They were made sweatier in a recent update. Retard.
>>43332580Twi anon and the other anon are correct, Buggos have attacked deers first for years now, I agree that they felt less sweaty in the past division wise tho
>>43332650No idea about division OOBs these days but changelings were always quite sweaty, that is why Psodd made their bonuses timed so you need to know when exactly to research and build certain things and in which order.I think he also used to give them as AI some playertier tank templates.>>43332649I will accept your concession, fren
>>43332646Play Ghosts of Yore>>43332648Azir, Tobuck, Zarantia, Sirens and Star Father are fun. Icepaw would be fun but not as a first Yeti nation, they should have made some more warmongering warlord first.Empire of Kiria is also kinda fun.My hopes are still with Uagabi, Aestlonia and Maretonia and Maretania.
No game today?
>>43332655Dumb faggot.
>>43332922
>>43331711>Wingfried's Hellquill aren't actually finished. this, the reformisten content is so little both for Wingfried especially for the Edler von Wingenberg ( the schizo cult guy who kills wingfried) trough the hole playthrough we recive events about the griffon cult but when we choose the the cult to come to power there's barelly any content about the cult they they have potencial but the way devs are focusing on Zebrica tags it will take a long time until some update for griffonia.
>>43333163New fren.... what cult? Edler is literally just not!Himmler and not!SS. Also Cyrus was planning to make OstGriffonia Empire content where they would have to hold what they conquer against pony partisans, with only Jezergrad being somewhat pacified and everything else being on fire.But then he left the mod after finishing Star Father and now is busy fucking tradcath girls at croatian universities.
>>43331654I've never played the mod and ain't planning to, what's the deal with the bugs? Are they retarded? Could it be the kind of a friendship problem to be solved with a couple of calculated political assassinations on all sides? If there's truly no way to sidestep it, I'm afraid we would end up volunteering together.
Where can I report bugs? Pic related. A focus in harmonic Bakara's tree does nothing. The description indicates decisions should appear to economically help Riverland nations (whatever that means) but no decisions appear. I also tag switched to my Riverland allies and no decisions appear for them either.Please don't say discord or reddit are the only ways, don't have an account in those and I would rather be raped with a crowbar than register on those sites.
>>43333409Or please help me report the bug, I will buy you a hayburger
>>43332667Cmon, rest of civil war leaders are no better>Storm creature leader that will act as diet cola Icepaw>DUDE OLIGARCHY! MONEY AND CORRUPTION WOOOMage guy is our only hope. That or some secret schizo leader hidden path.
>>43333486Storm creature leader looks interesting.
>The Dread League's opening focus tree takes loose inspiration from the Enclave Reborn submod for Old World Blues, where you will have several narrative events with a few choices to make in them that can shape your starting situation and potentially alter Rosa's starting traits. (Don't worry - none of these choices can screw you over)
>>43333486>>DUDE OLIGARCHY! MONEY AND CORRUPTION WOOOEvents and focus desc in Icepaw imply that he is actually quite ruthless, which is why it is weird to me they didnt do him first.>>Storm creature leader that will act as diet cola IcepawTheir civil war tree seems to be quite militaristic so they would probably be lot more warmongering than icepaw.
>>43334388I dont know why they are saying that as if it was some big thing? EAW already does this in Austurland, where you can literally RPG your leader and Sombra has the best RPG party when you are bringing him back.
>>43334436The Dread League, the Arcturian Order, and the Windigoes are all old content where they are doing their own thing in a corner of the map. The content is old, but the nu-devs aren't as creative as they pretend to be.
>>43334440funny how old content is still better than anything zebrica related
>>43334461Stop using blanket statements; there is plenty of old content that is bad or outdated. Vedina, Greneclyf, Firtree, Farbrook, Sunstriker, Confederate States, Olenia, Penguins come to mind. And Zebrica does hae Sirens, Star Father, Tobuck, Zarantia and Azir which are good on other hoof.Technically, Windoges in the current form are a new reworked content.
>>43334466>Technically, Windoges in the current form are a new reworked content.meant for >>43334440
>>43333196dude i played hellquill like 5 times, there's literally cult revolved around the superiority of griffon race and >how they had magical powers and lived among the gods but the evil ponys toke advantage of the griffons kindness and stole their powers and made them forget about their ancient roots" (somethign along these lines).Edler von Wingenberg is the main beneficiary of the cult, and he's "not"!!!himmler and not!SS or course
>>43334434>>43333486I really want to see the wizard focus tree. He projects this kind of feelinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNt3j-4bNg
>>43334660>dude i played hellquill like 5 times, there's literally cult revolved around the>superiority of griffon race andAnon, that is literally the SS esotericism that Himmler believed in. It is not some secret cult running things from shadow; it is Sturmgriffen being a more radical faction of Reformisten.
>>43333409
>>43334666Yea, that would be cool for sure. There was someone making a submod based on this, for EAW, back in the day, but I dont think he finished it.
Speaking of submods, which submods are worth playing other than GOY?What about the Vedina submod? Is it any good?
>>43334466>VedinaIt sucks. Ignoring the yurishit, either you rush through raising the princess and get a mediocre leader and join the Republican Pact or the Entente, or you take your time and get a great leader, but spend years having to fight the Griffonian Republic.>GreneclyfI like the diplomacy gimmick, but I hate the fact that it's RNG-based and that it's really not much different from the other Riverlands countries.>Firtree, FarbrookSame problems as the other Riverlands countries.>SunstrikerIt sucks and mostly exists to be eaten by the Griffonian Republic>Confederate StatesSucks.>OleniaMeh. Mostly exists to be attacked by the Changeling Lands.>PenguinsPractically a generic focus tree. Mostly just exists to be attacked by Stalliongrad.>Tobuck, Zarantia and AzirSuck.
>>43334667yes exactly , (i'm not denaying btw )
>>43334677>>Tobuck, Zarantia and AzirWhy are you such a contrarian? Azir is great. And actually adds some show content and evil overlord content.
>>43334687Azir is basically a visual novel.
>>43334693The entire mod is a visual novel, do I need to start posting events? God, I love that event chain so much, it is a shame, EAW doesn't do it like this in other places.
>>43334660>>43334667I haven't played hellquill that much but I think it is a cult? I have played Katerin a lot and a specific event path under the Katernii Kingdom dealing with a plague has the prince and his soldiers find a laboratory where griffons in cages are being tested on, most dead, some barely clinging to life but already given up, all infected with a... Purple plague... At least that's what my memory recalls. It doesn't mention hellquill but it read like a big hint towards them and the purple plague.
>>43334845Anon... that is not a cult, that is just Wingfried using his cousin´s land for testing, because it is a plausible deniability. He can always have the blame fall on her.
>>43334705It's more story-based than basegame, but even for the Crystal Empire, you can still go "no, fuck off" if you don't want to play the ahistorical Sombra route and carry on as normal.
Apparently, the Macawia rework will have a Martlet expy as one of their generals. Considering what most Undertale monsters are actually like, she had better be a general for the supremacist route.
>>43334959>Rumare rework>Before Griffonstone gets a focus tree>Almost a decade after the mod released
>>43334960Looks nice
>>43334959>>43334960This whole 'moderates' vs 'radicals' thing reads boring as fuck. I now agree with the anon some posts back, current devs have no creativity or imagination, it's all autism and minigames but 0 fun or enjoyable narratives. A similar nation to rumare is Asterion, the bulls, reuniting/liberating their people. But the bulls are fun and simple to play, and their narrative and gameplay first defeating cyanolisia and then having to survive vs wingbardy actually makes you feel something, rumare reads fucking boring and unfun.
>>43334922Martlet is the type to go with literally anything. She adopts Clover in any circumstances other than the completed genocide. If you abort genocide at the last possible second, you're good in her book.
>>43335219She is a royal guard for a country where its entire national identity is preparing to commit genocide over "muh six gorillion monsters killed in a war a millennium ago", lets Clover go to his death in pacifist, and reveals her true colours in the justice route. Papyrus and Monster Kid are the only reasons to not kill every single monster.
>Love conquers all...?
>>43334960>>43335086Rumare didn't need rework to begin with, it is perfect right now. Like Asterion, you reclaim your lands and then need to defend them. I bet someone just got triggered that Cyrus made them based on welsh fascists.
>>43335722Can't wait to cuck her with Sinister, NMM and Chrysalis. She is insuffureble Mary Sue OC.
>>43335817Post nose, faggot.
>>43335817She's not a Mary Sue.
>what love doesn't conquer, a fuck ton of explosives will
>>43335979She literally is a Mary Sue
>>43336010She literally isn't.
>>43336012>good and righteous and soemhow better than the main characters>all powerfull unicorn implied to be better than Twilight, yet she has no presence in actual show, despite having supposed ties to Cystal Empire royalty>can unearth an ancient threat and somehow overcome it on her own>can easily redeem an evil overlord and whitewash all his evils away>is literally praised by the main cast of the showShe is literally a deffinition of a Mary Sue
>>43336027>good and righteous and soemhow better than the main charactersIncorrect. She just happened to know Sombra personally before he turned evil.>all powerfull unicorn implied to be better than Twilight, yet she has no presence in actual show, despite having supposed ties to Cystal Empire royaltyShe was not implied to be more powerful then Twilight. Being talented in magic is not a Mary Sue trait exclusively. It is entirely possible for Twilight tier unicorns to exist in the past, and she lived with the Umbrum for 1000 years too, where she may very well have practiced magic on her own. Even with all that, it's never been shown that she's a better spellcaster then Twilight.>can unearth an ancient threat and somehow overcome it on her ownNot really. The Umbrum basically tricked her while she was all but stuck with them. She never overcame the Umbrum all on her own.>can easily redeem an evil overlord and whitewash all his evils awayNot easily. Sombra was not really redeemed until nearly the end of the comic, and that redemption was only possible because of their past connection. As for whitewashing, it's no worse then say, Discord.>is literally praised by the main cast of the showShe ended up helping said main cast beat the Umbrum. I'd say that's praise-worthy.
>>43336042>Incorrect. She just happened to know Sombra personally before he turned evil.She is literally shown as morally flawless both as a foal and adult>She was not implied to be more powerful then Twilight. Being talented in magic is not a Mary Sue trait exclusively. It is entirely possible for Twilight tier unicorns to exist in the past, and she lived with the Umbrum for 1000 years too, where she may very well have practiced magic on her own. Even with all that, it's never been shown that she's a better spellcaster then Twilight.She is literally shown to be a very bestest mage even as a foal. Also, somehow, she is the only one who knows about Umbrum, being a threat and taking it seriously, where Celestia and Chrysalis seemingly ignored their existence for all those 1000 years. Which is another shit part of the comic.>Not really. The Umbrum basically tricked her while she was all but stuck with them. She never overcame the Umbrum all on her own.She literally was a reason why they were defeated, otherwise they would have won>it was shown that she has a strong influence on Sombra the entire comic, which also ties into another issue, making Sombra being influenced either by her or Umbrum just takes away from his agency as a villain. Also, Discord was never enslaving anyone, he was just lord of chaos.
>>43336064>She is literally shown as morally flawless both as a foal and adultNo she wasn't. She was generally good, but not by that much. I mean, is being a good person a Mary Sue now?>She is literally shown to be a very bestest mage even as a foal. Also, somehow, she is the only one who knows about Umbrum, being a threat and taking it seriously, where Celestia and Chrysalis seemingly ignored their existence for all those 1000 years. Which is another shit part of the comic.She wasn't. She was a student of Celestia, but Celestia seemed to have more of those in the past. And of course she would know more about the Umbrum when she was BFF's with one of them. It would be stupid for her not to know the most about them.>She literally was a reason why they were defeated, otherwise they would have won"a" is not "the". Also worth noting she was one of the reasons they became a problem in the comic in the first place. Letting herself be manipulated like that is not a very smart thing to do. Mary Sues are supposed to be smart.>Also, Discord was never enslaving anyone, he was just lord of chaos.He was tormenting ponies for fun. He was literally evil.
>>43335985BASED.Is this a TNO Omsk thing or just a teaser for the Equestria rework?
>>43336097Dunno, but it did come after a Crystal Empire teaser.I actually like Chiropterra though...
>>43336073>No she wasn't. She was generally good, but not by that much. I mean, is being a good person a Mary Sue now?She is throughout the entire comic shown as a holy and righteous goody two shoes, which is literally a defining trait of Mary Sue.>She wasn't. She was a student of Celestia, but Celestia seemed to have more of those in the past. And of course she would know more about the Umbrum when she was BFF's with one of them. It would be stupid for her not to know the most about them.The point is that it is retarded that comic wants you to believe that Celestia would ignore the Umbrum threat for all these years.>Letting herself be manipulated like that is not a very smart thing to do. Mary Sues are supposed to be smart.Being ditzy and manipulated due to their innocence is also a defining trait of Mary Sues, before they inevitably turn on the villain and their previous complicity is forgotten. Which also happens here, and she just gets a pat on the back, with no reprimand whatsoever. And because she is oh so pure and innocent has to feel guilty herself, yet another trait of Mary Sues.>He was tormenting ponies for fun. He was literally evil.He wasn't tormenting ponies; he was more of a massive pain in the ass of a nuisance. Who thought it was funny to do whatever he could with his power because there was nobody on his level.
>>43336167>She is throughout the entire comic shown as a holy and righteous goody two shoes, which is literally a defining trait of Mary Sue.Not by that much. She was the one who willingly brought back Sombra despite knowing full well what she did. She also allowed herself to get manipulated by the Umbrum. Again, not a bad person, but being good does not equal Mary Sue.>The point is that it is retarded that comic wants you to believe that Celestia would ignore the Umbrum threat for all these years.Probably because she had other threats to deal with at the time, not to mention the Empire being gone anyway. She also had no reason to believe they would randomly return and even then, they were already sealed away and already beaten. And even if we ignore all that, it's a problem with Celestia, not Hope.>Being ditzy and manipulated due to their innocence is also a defining trait of Mary Sues, before they inevitably turn on the villain and their previous complicity is forgotten. Which also happens here, and she just gets a pat on the back, with no reprimand whatsoever. And because she is oh so pure and innocent has to feel guilty herself, yet another trait of Mary Sues.Not necessarily. And even in this case, it was more so the villains turning on her. She's also not really ditzy, and she did help stop the Umbrum later, so punishing her afterwards was kind of redundant, especially considering that she went with Sombra to try and save Amore, which can be viewed as trying to make up for past actions. Again, being good does not equate to Mary Sue, otherwise most good characters in the show may as well be just that.>He wasn't tormenting ponies; he was more of a massive pain in the ass of a nuisance. Who thought it was funny to do whatever he could with his power because there was nobody on his level.The Elements of Harmony petrified him twice. He was remembered in history as a being with a heart as cold as stone. He was considered a major villain. He was, fundamentally tormenting ponies and evil.
>>43336189You keep trying to claim she is just good, but throughout the entire comic, she is consistently being elevated as way more, than that, being a righteous saviour that is so pure. Also, as stated before, it is shit and ruins Sombras' character, making him, instead of a dangerous villain just a puppet to either Umbrum or Radiant. Completely ignoring his autonomy. Which is the biggest sin of them all, because his design is way too cool to be just a puppet to anyone, he should be the villain in his own right and a threat. This is why that comic is always going to be trash and non-canon. The only good attempt at Sombra's love arc to this day is the Fall of the Empire, because he is actively doing things.
>>43336200She wasn't though. If anything, she was a villain for parts of it. She bought other villains together just to help Sombra. I don't see how she is a Mary Sue when the only real argument for that is that she's morally good and is good at magic. That does apply to other characters.As for Sombra's character, what character? Before the comic, he was just a generic cackling smoke monster villain. After it, he came back as some asshole with a gay voice. The comic gave him far more character then the show ever did.
>>43336206>She wasn't though. If anything, she was a villain for parts of it. She bought other villains together just to help Sombra. I don't see how she is a Mary Sue when the only real argument for that is that she's morally good and is good at magic. That does apply to other characters.She is not just morally beyond reproach, but she is the entire time shown as a perfect mage, the only one who somehow can work with ancient threat without anyone noticing, somehow being able to get other villains work together long enough for the plan to work and cause a coup in the Empire, and she is never given any punishment for doping any of this and is supposed to be praised because she stopped said threat only after beign betrayed by it. She is in every way a Mary Sue.>As for Sombra's character, what character? Before the comic, he was just a generic cackling smoke monster villain. After it, he came back as some asshole with a gay voice. The comic gave him far more character then the show ever did.Him being evil smoke tyrant overlord had way more character and was more fun than any of the comic "didnu do nuffing wrong" or the season 9 appearance.
>>43336213>She is not just morally beyond reproachIncorrect. She was depicted as being in the wrong for gathering all those villains.>she is the entire time shown as a perfect mageShe cast like, 3 spells on her own, one of them was teleportation, so it's not like she did that much. It also makes sense for her to be a good mage if she studied under Celestia. At the same time, there was never really any indication that she was some Starlight tier overpowered super unicorn.>the only one who somehow can work with ancient threat without anyone noticingBecause she probably spent over 1000 years studying it.>somehow being able to get other villains work together long enough for the plan to work and cause a coup in the EmpireAnd yet, she still could not keep the alliance together. It made sense early on because said villains did want their own revenge.>she is never given any punishment Like Glimmer, really. Don't pretend this is unprecedented. At least she was actively working at the end to try and undo Amore's shattering, thus taking some responsibility for her actions. It's not like she walked away with nothing.>She is in every way a Mary Sue.Not really.>Him being evil smoke tyrant overlord had way more character and was more fun than any of the comic He was as boring as the Pony of Shadows. He wasn't that fun as a purely evil villain. He never got any cool lines, cool action or cool moments besides smoke monster things. He was basically an obstacle with very little else.
>>43336239>She was depicted as being in the wrong for gathering all those villains.Nowhere in the story is she depicted to be wrong for doing that or chastised for it. >She cast like, 3 spells on her own, one of them was teleportation, so it's not like she did that much. It also makes sense for her to be a good mage if she studied under Celestia. At the same time, there was never really any indication that she was some Starlight tier overpowered super unicorn.She is literally claimed to be a prodigy (which is why Celestia takes her as an apprentice) and great healer.>Because she probably spent over 1000 years studying it.Yet somehow she didn't know they were evil?>Like Glimmer, really. Don't pretend this is unprecedented. At least she was actively working at the end to try and undo Amore's shattering, thus taking some responsibility for her actions. It's not like she walked away with nothing.And Starlight is universally considered to be a Mary Sue and hated for it. Furthermore, her quest to undo the shattering is self impsed and part of the problem, any other villain would be punished directly for such actions. >He was as boring as the Pony of Shadows. He wasn't that fun as a purely evil villain. He never got any cool lines, cool action or cool moments besides smoke monster things. He was basically an obstacle with very little else.That is exactly what a villains hould be a threat and obstacle for the heroes to overcome. Furthermore, he was threatening, nearly succeeding in taking over the Empire once more, and his obsession with Crystals was a nice character touch, so dont lie that he had no character at all. He was also shown to be adept at manipulations, inducing control and sowing fear in the crystal ponies.
>>43336287>Nowhere in the story is she depicted to be wrong for doing that She was. Bad things happened because she did it, therefore she was depicted as wrong for doing it.>She is literally claimed to be a prodigy (which is why Celestia takes her as an apprentice) and great healer.A prodigy in healing, which is her cutie mark. Again, nothing to suggest she could randomly take on Twilight or something. Everything else was after many years of experience.>Yet somehow she didn't know they were evil?Manipulation.>And Starlight is universally considered to be a Mary Sue and hated for it. Furthermore, her quest to undo the shattering is self impsed and part of the problem, any other villain would be punished directly for such actions. Glimmer has a lot of fans. There was no reason to punish her if she was already trying to make amends in the most logical way possible. And if we look at the show, Starlight wasn't punished, Discord wasn't punished for what he did in s8 and 9 and Tempest wasn't punished either. This is not really unique to her.>That is exactly what a villains hould be a threat and obstacle for the heroes to overcome. Not always. And he wasn't that threatening, really. He simply had fear magic and intimidation. That is all. A good pure evil villain just has a sort of charisma that he never had. He was simply boring.
>>43336307>She was. Bad things happened because she did it, therefore she was depicted as wrong for doing it.The bad things happening where never portrayed as her fault in the story. It was always shown as the plan going haywire. Which again is a classic way to absolve Mary Sues of their faults in all the stories.>A prodigy in healing, which is her cutie mark. Again, nothing to suggest she could randomly take on Twilight or something.And she is shown to be able to overcome literal death. Also, she is able to hold against Cadence, who is an alicorn.>Manipulation.But how can you get manipulated by something you supposedly study?>There was no reason to punish her if she was already trying to make amends in the most logical way possible. And if we look at the show, Starlight wasn't punished, Discord wasn't punishedSo making "amends" makes it fine to control ponies and take away their cutie marks or try to literally change timeline and mess with people´s lives?And Discord was punished, as you have mentioned, he was turned to stone, and even after his release, he was on the probation.>Not always. And he wasn't that threatening, really. He simply had fear magic and intimidation. That is all. A good pure evil villain just has a sort of charisma that he never had. He was simply boring.He was literally shown to use crystal ponies´fears against them when he came back, which shows active manipulation, and intelligence. And he did have charisma, otherwise people wouldnt be clamoring for his return for years and wouldn't use him in bunch of fanfics. And his waging of the war on Equestria during the time travel arc was one of the most fun parts.
>>43336325>never portrayed as her fault in the story. It was always shown as the plan going haywire. The plan, which was partially hers to carry out, which involved obviously bad things happeneing, so it was not saying it wasn't her fault.>overcome literal deathno>she is able to hold against Cadence, who is an alicornthey never had a straight fight.>But how can you get manipulated by something you supposedly study?She was blinded by romance, also dumb. A character flaw. Something Mary Sue's aren't supposed to have.>So making "amends" makes it fine to control ponies and take away their cutie marks or try to literally change timeline and mess with people´s lives?Nope, but it does not make her unique from the show.>And Discord was punished, as you have mentioned, he was turned to stone, and even after his release, he was on the probation.I mentioned he was not punished for s9, and he also wasn't punished for s5, if I recall. And he wasn't really on probation considering he still had access to his magic and dimension.>He was literally shown to use crystal ponies´fears against them when he came back, which shows active manipulation, and intelligence. And he did have charisma, otherwise people wouldnt be clamoring for his return for years and wouldn't use him in bunch of fanfics. And his waging of the war on Equestria during the time travel arc was one of the most fun parts.His return wasn't all that demanded. And most fanfics were either about expanding his backstory, which was distinctly missing and reformation. As for the time travel arc, it barely focused on him, more so it focused on how all the other characters were fairing.
I swear, this same fucking twifag keeps arguing with someone on almost every EAW thread. It's like he only comes here to bitch and argue. He's also always wrong.
New thread?
>>43336397>The plan, which was partially hers to carry out, which involved obviously bad things happeneing, so it was not saying it wasn't her fault.The story was literally trying to make it sound like it is not her fault.>She was blinded by romance, also dumb. A character flaw. Something Mary Sue's aren't supposed to have.Being blinded by love is not considered a character flaw in those kinds of stories. It is always portrayed as a virtue.>And he wasn't really on probation considering he still had access to his magic and dimension.He was on probation when they brought him back from his stone prison, I have literally stated "after his release">His return wasn't all that demanded. And most fanfics were either about expanding his backstory, which was distinctly missing and reformation.Most fics are about him being a villain, or how he became a villain, which I have already stated that Fall of the Empire does way better job of doing than the comic.And he was literally one of the most demanded characters to return. Stop lying.
>>43335817Good news, anon, they're removing NMM and Chrysalis marriage. Sinister is staying, because memes.
>>43336399Without him the thread would be dead tho, plus his help on EaW or hoi4 gameplay questions is greatly appreciated
>>43336445>The gay path is staying>Remove hetero paths>Don't even add a Celestia path which is way more grounded in some evidence because of the Reflections comicFucking pieces of shit, the worst part is that they don't have the balls to make grover canonically trans, if they are so desperate to make the mod LGBT and ruin Ponies why don't they fucking bite the bullet and make grover trans huh? I know why, because it would kill the mod, they have a chokehold on the my little Pony IP (at least when it comes to gaming) and they know making grover trans would kill their popularityBut bastardizing Ponies is great! We don't care! We are furries!
>>43336449>>43336449>>43336449Glad you could bake it, Hector.
>>43336445Cringe, all three should be options.
>>43336416>The story was literally trying to make it sound like it is not her fault.Not really.>Being blinded by love is not considered a character flaw in those kinds of stories. It is always portrayed as a virtue.It is.>He was on probation when they brought him back from his stone prison, I have literally stated "after his release"Probation which included basically no downsides.>or how he became a villainSo, a backstory to make him less genaric.>Fall of the Empire Never read it. I prefer redemption fics.>Stop lying.I'm not.
>>43336494>So, a backstory to make him less genaric.He was never generic>Never read it. I prefer redemption fics.That fundamentally is not what Sombra is about. He works the best as a villain who is all about total control and domination. And evil overlord like Sauron. He is literally built for that, with his manpulations, fear magic and mind control.
>>43336456>Child character that spends the entire game being groomed by someone or another>Submod makes him a troonIt's a bit on the nose, isn't it?
