Militant Celestia 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>>43336449
>>43561985
We haven't had a thread in a while.
Hellquill really needs a rework. In a player's hands, it's only a threat to Longsword and the Riverlands, and there's no content after declaring war on the Riverlands. In the AI's hands, it's only a threat to Longsword and usually gets eaten by one of the Griffon tags.
Greifenmarschen's Rohmer route mostly consists of quicky getting rid of debuffs, quicky developing, and then getting tons of wars in quick succession. It's very fast-paced, but it's sort of ruined by how Hellquill isn't a threat and Wingbardy is only a threat to weaker tags.
>>43562220*quickly
Twilight Theory is sad.
>>43561985I don't feel motivated enough to play EAW, mainly because of the graphics.It's hard to go back to the base game style after playing so much TFR.
>>43562785I did play an entire run of the confederates though, during the civil war.
Any playthroughs anyone doing now?
>>43564054I last did a Rohmer playthrough, but I found it boring. It should really focus on fighting Hellquill and Wingbardy.
Maybe I'll do a Project Phoenix playthrough next.
Are the devs even doing anything other than making new portraits and reworking existing tags?
>>43564959Big equus update coming in soon +2 weeks
>>43565495Guess I'll just wait until the big update comes before I make another thread.
>>43564959>he doesn't know about almost every tag on Equus getting an update
>>43566187Well, where is it?
Wow now there's two scary ass eyes-obscured Stahlhelm-wearing pony pics in the catalog
bump
>>43567173two?
>>43569081>>43564834
>>43569099ahh ok, cool.
cool
>>43564054Tambelon is fucking brutal. I hope the devs find a way to shove Gusty in the mod cuz I want to see how she managed to defeat Grogar and his armies.
>11
>>43561991What were they arguing about?
>>43576856who gets to molest prince blueblood
>>43562514I love my insane wife. Though not that art style, as much as most.
>>43571220They're not gonna is what's most likely.
You get one Kyro rescue; use it wisely
>>43579757sad
>>43576856Anal or vaginal.
>>43589264Both, both is good.
>10Any good submods? I tried the Greneclyf one and didn't get to fight a single war by 1020.
any news on the victoria 2 port?or pony mods in strategy games in general
>>43599646None for Vicky 3?
>>43601839No.There was an attempt to make an original pony mod for Vic 3 when it first came out and it died within two months.The official EAW team is working on a Vic 2 port but there has been barely any news on it.
Crystal Empire dev said at one point that his hope is to release the rework this year. I wonder if it's still realistic.
>>43600530I fucking love Tobuck. I also love the mental image of hyped up chiropterran supersoldiers marching into this shithole city and getting absolutely slaughtered by the locals armed with just muskets and a hope in a better tomorrow.>Gone are the days of the warlords and mercenaries. You won't be fighting so Pea Shooter can loot you for longer but for a square deal. Everypony gets their share. We're fighting for our homes and our families. This is Tobuck and it is not for sale! So gather around and grab a gun.
>>43603851>There was an attempt to make an original pony mod for Vic 3 when it first came out and it died within two months.What caused it to die early?
>>43606777Lack of interest, very few developers, and development started immediately on the day of Victoria 3's horrible launch.The timeline being right after Twilight became Equestria's ruler probably didn't help either, but I doubt there was the same audience for a pony mod for Vicky 3 as there was for HOI4.EAW didn't even build most of its audience until after Griffonia released.The mod was Project Twilight.
>>43607624>The timeline being right after Twilight became Equestria's ruler probably didn't help eitherah 100%, should've been way before with maybe alt history stuff with Prince Blueblood as the monarch to utilise the vicky 3 mechanics.
>>43607624maybe in the future i guess
>>43613390Yeah...
The Unicornian Sisterhood is such a wasted opportunity.
They should have expanded more on Rarity's betrayal in Twilight Theory.
>>43621816This.
>>43561985Anything new to EaW?
>>43628417https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/1826643372
>TFW no sleep since 1007
>>43629639sleep is for the weak
>>43596774Project Phoenix?
>>43632091is it good?
>>43636328Eh. It's basically the same as the normal civil war, but Celestia breaks down for the entire civil war and then becomes increasingly authoritarian without becoming Daybreaker. It's mostly a story mod.
>>43636349>It's mostly a story mod.ahh well sounds interesting enough to check, thanks.
>10
Equestria... is at war.
Why does the Griffonian Empire AI always eat rocks now? I played Aquileia and pretty much just battle-planned with infantry and knights the entire playthrough.Also I never knew the changelings got a protectorate for New Mareland.
>>43642065Aquileia's army is really strong. Maybe it's like how France's army was strong?
>>43642099I meant that GE didn't even unify until after 1013. I waited to attack until then. Though this playthrough was probably the easiest I've ever done.
>>43642065might be AI had a bad start
>>43642295It might be because it used to be a huge showdown between the Griffonian Empire and the Griffonian Republic and the Aquileian Republic, but they nerfed the Griffonian Republic to the ground, which forced them to make all kinds of other "balance" changes for the continent.
>>43629639PANCAKES
Got back into the game today and jumped in on a few tags I haven't tried yet. Here's my assessment.>Griffonian RepublicVery straightforward Waking the Tiger-era gameplay. Clear your negative spirits, build up, then win. Not much narrative fun to be had beyond the opening historical blurb. Might've been more to it if I'd pursued an alt path, I guess.>SkynaviaI went for the despot path for a giggle. Turns out it just dumps you into the stock focus tree if you win the stability minigame. Why even give the player the option?>Lan KirHere's what I wanted. Pure click-focused gameplay. All war, all the time. It even rewards you mechanically for pulling off those ebin Reddit-tier encirclements. Fuck the visual novel set dressing, this shit's core HoI4. I'll report back once the kirin are the only surviving life-form on Zebrica.
>>43644766>Lan KirLan Kir is so much fun. I like how war focused it is. Such a nice contrast to those glorified visual novels some other nations do. You even get penalized for not killing stuff.
Any good underrated nation?
>>43644766>>43645173I never understood why people seem to hate Lan Kir.
>>43642065That's the ai being retarded. Did you turn on production fix?
>"There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy, a true proletariat democracy." - Karamelka Sladkaya
thread fast
Sexiest leader?
>>43646954Stupid question.
>>43646966How so?
>>43647047Because the answer is self-evident.
Scraping the barrel.
>>43647641Funnily enough, Germans did often have children manning AA guns. Apparently it was easy enough to shoot down aircraft even by them.
>>43646584She's kinda hot.
Did any EAW character make it to miss /mlp/?
I'll be hosting an EAW game this Sunday at 18:30 CET.
>>43649585I'll aim to attend. I haven't played multiplayer HoI4 in a little under a decade. How fucked am I?
>>43649611You'll be fiiine.
>>43647641expert solders
>>43649611pretty fucked
Done. Shame this wasn't more fun, but that's largely because conquering Equestria is a pain in the ass regardless of who you're playing as. Wonder if Sombra's going to be included in the Equus rework?
>>43651632>Wonder if Sombra's going to be included in the Equus rework?The crystal empire is getting a rework and they teased some sombra stuff so yes.
>While the ULRE has to come to terms with the feasibility of some of its goals, the victory of world revolution is one that is not so easily compromised on...
I very much hope the rework brings with it a necessary change in allowing characters to die. Every Equus-based playthrough irritates me because of this old rule that was made so as not to offend anybody when their favourite character gets killed. For example in my ongoing Lunar Empire run. After I won, Celestia, chief antagonist to the rebellion in the east, is never mentioned again, except in passing references to her being dealt with, at one point literally in an "unspecified manner." That was incredibly stupid. If the mod is supposed to be FiM but DARKER and GRITTIER, then let characters die. Same as the Changelings just locking Twilight in a cell. Rant over.
>>43651632I lied. The Sombra path, being some of the oldest surviving content, I think breaks this rule, in that you can execute Cadance and Shining Armour, though I don't recall if that includes Cunny Heart.
is there a place were I can view the art of all the fractions side by side? Or do I need to track each individual fraction on booru and try to compose general idea of which fanarts are more canon than the other ones?
>>43653428German identified.
>>43653401Cummy Fart gets sent to Equestria at the outbreak of hostilities. Maybe she makes a dramatic return if you fast-forward the game for long enough, but I didn't check. I didn't execute Candy because I like her and it would've made me feel bad.
>>43653687A man must hope.
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>>43655026Gimme two more minutes before starting pls. I'm running a little late.
>>43655144No.
Drawing is hard.
>>43656972Don't worry, just defend the city.
>>43656972I agree.
Why do commies exist?
>>43655026Spitfire on Spitfire.
>>43658728Usually because they had a feudal monarchy that was so retarded that even communism was less shit by comparison.
>>43659591pic rel
>>43641683>[...] consequently Equestria is At War with Changeling Lands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbTuX0vDxxw
>>43660572Great changes.
>>43659607Idiot communists.
>>43661583They were desperate. They had food shortages and price gouging. It was literally a case of "good Tsar, evil Boyar".
>>43662331>retarded stalliongrad lore for the million billionth time
>>43662590Yeah, well, its inspiration was a retarded monarchy sending its people into an unpopular retarded meatgrinder war.
>>43662718Okay?w
“After the Storm” 2.6.4.1 Compatibility for 1.19.4 Hearts of Iron IV patch.Additions: Lan Kir: Added a penal divisions decision. Added Kiraffid Generalate cosmetic tag. Added Upper Lacustrine Beneficium puppet cosmetic tag. Lunar Military Administration: Added an admiral and air force chief. Added a portrait to the raiding genius advisor.Changes: Repurposed a tiny two pixel province in the Key Lake into a land province in Polar Bear Communities. Polished terrain in northern Griffonia. Slightly increased how much equipment you get from the generic dragon event. Kiria: Updated Rain Pyre portrait. Lan Kir: Made the Lan Kir Militarch's Chess mechanic less costly. Resettlement decision allows you to reclaim cores in Zaikiria. Hyssop Garnet can now defect to Lan Kir. Can now release Abyssinia without Wingbardy-controlled states. Reduced focus times. Strengthened Vernal Infernus.
Fixes: Fixed broken kirin technology modifiers. Cleaned up some province borders in Watertowns. Abyssinia: Fixed being able to fully capitulate the enemy in the Manedalusian reclamation war by ignoring Manedalusia. Adelart: "Further Ties with Flowena" bypasses if Flowena doesn't exist. Bronzehill: Fixed ignoring their set AI path under some circumstances. Lan Kir: Fixed broken Fire Thistle advisor portrait. Polar Bear Communities: Will not declare wars on yaks if allied. Dehumanized some GFX. Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements. Miscellaneous localisation fixes.Checksum: dde9 // No image because I am not as cool as Caspy or Crni This update SHOULD be save compatible with 2.6.4, but some fixes will require a new game. I'd recommend starting a new game regardless due to the HoI4 update.
>>43645173Genociding everycreature as the killpeopelist nirik has got to be peak HOI4, TNO could never
>>43663274>TNO could neverOnce upon a time...
>>43663309TNO was good?
>>43664000For about a year and a half, yeah. 2019-2021 or such for me.
Can we talk about how incompetent the Abyssinian king is?
>>43664618I fucking hate that guy.
>>43663274TNO would have been good if it was literally just Nazi Germany vs Omsk. Old World Blues just started as NCR vs Legion and just a few minor factions shown in the game.
>>43664618He only exists so that you can go through the bullshit of experiencing the wholesome harmonist route and then feel catharsis when you throw all the parasites in the sea in the communist route.
>>43665627I very much like that idea. Instead it's just The Great Blueballing.
The mod should have more lighthearted events early in the game while taking into account technology.>New buildings being built in Manehattan>Three distinct architectural styles>Cautious earth pony architecture using prefabricated steel-reinforced concrete>Weightless Canterlot unicorn architecture using magic>Cantilever vernacular earth pony architecture using prefabricated steel-reinforced concrete designed to look like Canterlot architecture but use physics and engineering instead of magic>Huge argument between the three architects>Cautious earth pony calls the cantilever vernacular architecture risky>Canterlot unicorn calls the cantilever vernacular architecture heavy>Cantilever vernacular earth pony calls the other two old-fashioned>Earthquake happens>All of the buildings are perfectly fine>Moral of the story is that there is more than one valid way to solve a problemIt could give a free civilian factory or something at the end.
>>43666283Sounds like a fun idea. Free civs are always nice.
Golly path when?
>>43667651Hot.
>>43663274Small patch.
>We ask this, as we ask for all things, in the holy name of Nightmare Moon.>It is that time once again my fellow Nightmareists, Lunarists, and Metztlists. Now that we have covered the Nightmare Regency's existence, we should probably discuss the Regency Council. As it turns out, a regency is really not that stable, and some major players have their ideas on how things should turn out.>Also, as another small teaser and in preparation for Nightmare Night, I believe it is prudent we decide on a prayer. I have been instructed in my dreams to show one of these (this is not a joke, just an interpretation of my dreams!). Take to the polls ponies of Her Faithful Herd, and vote to see which psalm we shall pray together on Nightmare Night!!
>>43669988>>43669992>Barrad/TNO slopGrim. The nu-devs are retarded kikes.
>>43670231How so?
>>43669988Nice.
>>43671077Complex mechanics you gata play through. Wile some is alright but other times it's just takes the fun out
>>43670231>adds a simple BOP system with a few discisionsTNO CRAP REEEEE
NMM is better then Daybreaker.
>>43671077Moonatik (one of the mod's artists) is a kike faggot that self inserts as gay Chiropterran rapists.>>43672625We've already seen this slop in Barrad and some of the more recent content. They're even doing little other than constant "balance" patches like TNO instead of focusing on adding new content.
>>43674570Submod?
>>43673303NMM is a whiny bitch sperging out over not having her flank kissed enough.
What's with all the erotic fanfiction by the way? There is so much erotic fanfiction while playing. Its out of nowhere too.
>>43675789Which tag?
>>43675801I was playing fascist Realm of Kiria and at some point it gives you a decision to "tame the West" or spend some time with a stallion instead.
>>43675804Oh, that. Even Harmonist Kiria gets that event. A horny bureaucrat mare gets the choice to either do her job properly or get laid.
>>43674124Troonatik will have xis day of the rope, but xeir only work for the mod comes in the form of event images. Being an artist doesn't give one much influence over the direction of mod development. It's not as if TNO's fall was driven by the artists of all people. The EaW devs, for all their faults, are still pumping out actual content pretty regularly. We got Zebras and Yetis earlier this year, and as much of a meme as it is, we know that the Equus update is well underway - significantly moreso than, say, Penelope's Web.
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>>43676116109775243145825369/mlp/Rehosting
>That smug grin like she knows she's about to do something very wrong>Those eyes looking slightly to the side as if averting her gaze, clearly thinking of something lewd>Large ears to rub gently or use as handlebars when you take her from her behind>Ugh... you can even see her big boobas through her dress>Only thing missing is her slightly tilting her head, like a dog waiting for her master's orderI'd like to give Princess Molly a bone if ya' know what I'm sayin' hehehehe
>>43676116GG
>>43676474What kind of bone?
>>43676474Bruh. It's just another gimmicky Riverlands harmonist route with a gimmick of phasing out slavery.
>>43677659I want to conquer the world as a slutty dog JUST LET ME!
>>43677729She's not slutty though. Also she's harmonist.
>>43679478She is to me. She clearly gives me bedroom eyes! Also I can wage war against everyone who does not appreciate my kind of harmony. If the Griffons turn fascist, communist or stay non-aligned. They get to eat my paw. If Luna or the Changelings win in Equestria. I will intervene and abduct Rarity in the process.If the Zebras have any thoughts of self-determination or independence. I will visit their mudhuts and blow them up with friendship bombs.You either accept friendship and harmony or you will be put on a leash but not mine. You get your own. I'll make them bark to my tone.
Also I tried Barrad. Thought its some sort of darkest dungeon related campaign. Maybe with a eldritch horror underneath the mansion and you have to send in adventurers via decisions.Turns out the eldritch horror was some sort of machine. The entire campaign moved on a snails pace. There was almost no fighting, only border skirmishes for resources that you couldn't even really win.Since all your divisions are bad and you barely have any ponypower. Most boring campaign so far. I dropped it after I found out about the machine.
>>43679503The machine is a magic nuclear reactor or something. Maybe it's a parody of people that rush nuclear power research? It's really boring. You spend ages working through the focuses, keeping the schizos friends, then killing them, healing the machine, fixing the count's mental health, and so on. Your final reward is ending up in a situation like most countries are in 1007 and getting a normal focus tree based on development. By that point, you only get a short amount of time before the Riverlands (which have been acting like normal countries instead of schizos) get war goals against you.
Is it just me or is the yak/jak war much harder as the jaks?
>>43589264Caramel Marks supporting vaginal, while Celestia supports anal?
>>43645173>Lan kirIf war is so bad, then why does it feel so good? -the country999,9999 dead zebras
>>43674124What do random decisions have to do with Moonatik?
>>43680577Why?
>>43676474Ugly furry mutt!
>>43682225Faust says that Celestia and Luna don't have any children.
Grand Equestrian Republic be like:
>>43683374>Republicanism is when clothed maresGrim.>Republicanism is when tomboy maresShit
>>43683374hot
>>43681035It really does. I dont get why it gets hate.
>>43673974Does capturing them do anything?
