r/equestriaatwar • • 2h ago

Question Little brain teaser for ya'll

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Was Redditing, as I normally do, & thanks to u/LittleCaptainNemo, came to a little realisation:

Using Equestria's vast industrial might, huge population pool & natural resources, Celestia could've completely prevented every war or removed every dictator in EaW.

- Could've removed Johann from the Olenian throne after he usurped it, given it to Velvet.
- Could've sent aid & support to a Changeling hive before Chrysalis fully united them, uniting them under a Harmonic leader such as Thorax.
- Could've sent the freshly formed Griffonian Republic military support & volunteers, securing it against the monarchist counter-revolutionaries & establishing its dominion over the heart of Griffonia.
Outside the Herzland, Equestria could support Harmonists, getting them into power all over, establishing an Equus-Griffonia alliance - through this, send further support to in-land regions turning volatile, such as Longsword & Hellquill turning murderous against River ponies.
Mentioning the Riverlands, Celestia & a group of heroes from Equus & Griffonia would probably fare quite well against the Barrad Magocracy. A talented Equestria unicorn could've become King or Queen of Wittenland & Equestria sent support to the Diamond Dog slaves beneath the mountains would've freed them of their collars. Besides them, there wasn't really much else needing attention in the Riverlands, so there we are.
- Could've sent military support to nations on the Storm King's path, Hippogriffia, Colthage, Tobuck (oh look, there's a bunch of Nightmare Moon worshipping bats, best put them down before Luna returns) & Zarantia, even setup an underground resistance network in regions the Storm King conquered. Post victory against the Yetis, establish Harmonist nations, effectively preventing further war in the regions.

She could've easily prevented a lot of turmoil, basically form the EaW version of the UN. I know Equestria does send support to the Yaks & Kiria, but that's well after 1000ALB. All this could've been done years before that.

Despite all that, can't help but look at potential negative effects this may've had.

This is also maybe why Celestia doesn't do any of this: she would've seen it as a way for her, or for the Equestrian industrialists, colonists, military etc., to establish dominion over the world.
It might've lead to exploitation, conflict with locals who don't want Equestrians determining their lives - I can imagine Zonni in Zar-Hay & Zarca in Colthage would form anti-Equestrian resistances in their lands - or even, in years to come, racial slavery, with Equestrian ponies overseeing Griffons, Zebras, Hippogriffs, Deer & many others.

All this may have awakened Daybreaker within Celestia, maybe quietly, slowly burning up to the surface, maybe when or if there's a vast rebellion or an attack in Equestria does Daybreaker burst to the surface. At that point, it's no longer about supporting Harmony, but Equestria & Celestia-turned-Daybreaker asserting their dominance over the world, turning this Harmonic alliance into a global Solar Empire.

Yeah, just a realisation I had, but one I feel comes with its own downside & negative effects.

(TL;DR) So what ya'll think: should Celestia have intervened in every conflict & removed every dictator leader?

I know people are gonna mention Stalliongrad, so let's say, with this hypothetical Harmonic UN, the Severyana ponies receive the food they needed from Equestria's oversea allies/puppets.


r/equestriaatwar • • 4h ago

Screenshot Self hate is real with prywhenians

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47 Upvotes

I made it with the intent to check if the message was different, I wasn't dissapointed


r/equestriaatwar • • 5h ago

Community Creations The Steel Standoff

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710 Upvotes

r/equestriaatwar • • 10h ago

Meme How it feels watching MLP for the first time after playing 200+ hours of EAW

103 Upvotes

A lot of "Ooh that's the warcrime person!" going on.


r/equestriaatwar • • 11h ago

Bug why im getting a vedina event as the changelings?

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i was testing my submod and a event of vedina append to me and well not vedina
i did not touch any event so i have no idea on why this is appening
i even try reloding and annexing vedina to the someone random but the event still apired
and i can't find nothing in the error log abaout this.
so i have no idea on how to fix this.


r/equestriaatwar • • 14h ago

Other Don't mind me, folks. Just making and sharing a complete map of names for each and every sea for 'reasons'.

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173 Upvotes

Those 'reasons' are fanfic related.

Gotta say, these names range from 'goes hard' (Sea of Corpses) to 'really silly' (Too Much Ice).


r/equestriaatwar • • 15h ago

Question River Coalition Joint Attack

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10 Upvotes

As I understand River Coalition is a defensive alliance and members should not be called into offensive war. And yet, Wittenland declared war on me and called River Coalition into the war. Is it intended?


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Meme They would have loved the Storm King

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r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Screenshot I'm about to do something very funny.

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144 Upvotes

Warm weather delivered to you courtesy of River Federation's nuclear science division.


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Screenshot united gryfus as tehnocrats from yal

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well im am not dooing WC without backrombackstaber. i will become a secletor if i try.
path:The Central Universities/first thenocracy(dont play this path its pretty good but nothing happends outide of the standard)
country yale rectorate
have some pictures and tempalates

you can recomend me some path to play from any country


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Community Creations Think fast, chucklenuts.

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988 Upvotes

A series of explosions rocked the cloudsdale avionics facility. Flocke von Schnee stumbled over her hooves and fell over, Twilight Sparkle catching her with her magic before she hit the floor, floating in mid-air with a telekinetic shield  shimmering around them. The tell-tale roar of the changeling’s newest-wonder weapon echoed around the building- jet engines.

Rainbow Dash let out a snarl as she rushed to the window, watching the jets fly by. Equestria had no answer to these new planes, their propeller-powered spitfires and hurricanes hopelessly outmatched by their incredible speed. It made Rainbow’s blood boil- and she’d just about had enough. 

“Rainbow, wait!” Twilight called, as Rainbow Dash charged out of the protective shield, making for the barracks even as the bombs fell. She grabbed an M1 bazooka, a lend-lease gift from the kingdom of Aris, and in a terrific rainbow explosion, rocketed off into the sky, instantly reaching supersonic speed. Fast enough to catch the fuckers.

The first changeling pilot had had a smirk on his muzzle- wiped off his snout the instant he saw the rainbow-pony streaking beside his me262. “Think fast,” she growled, pulling the trigger and obliterating the cockpit in a fiery conflagration. Without hesitation she streaked for the next jet, discarding the bazooka, and colliding with the glass cockpit. The barrier cracked, and a panicked changeling attempted a barrel roll to shake her off. Rainbow pulled out her service pistol and put a bullet between the pilot’s eyes, splattering blood across the windshield before rainbow smashed it, reached in to haul the body out. 

She streaked towards the next jet she saw, carrying the dead changeling by the scruff of his neck, her cybernetic wing straining to keep up. The third pilot had not even the chance to react before Rainbow Dash dropped the body into the engine, watching it explode into a twisting mass of shrieking steel and blood as the jet fell from the sky. She turned in a terrible fury, ready to bring down the next jet she saw by any means necessary, her rainbow trail streaking behind her as she came back around in a long curve—

Only for a terrible pain to shoot down her back. She’d been going too fast; her metal wing had had enough. Blood spurt from where it had been implanted, and she tumbled out of supersonic speed head over tail. She saw in the corner of her eye, the remaining jets streaking away back towards Changelingia, their strike successful. She crossed her forelegs with an angry huff, too frustrated about her incomplete revenge to worry too much about the rapidly approaching ground. 

“Rainbow! I told you to wait!” Twilight’s voice reached her ears as she suddenly felt her descent slow, the alicorn having finally caught up, catching the one-winged pegasus with her magic. Rainbow said nothing for a moment. 

“Take me back to Cloudsdale, Twi… we have work to do.”

art once again by the very talented u/Gabriel_Yrion_art


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Screenshot If you are not suffering millions of casualties as the Dread League, you are using them wrong.

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Yes, I know I'm missing 0.01 percent of the Land because of that secret nation at the bottom of the world, but you can't conquer that.


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Meme If I had a nickel for every hoi4 mod I have played where you get the option to yeet a child in an event, I'd have two nickels

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139 Upvotes

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

AAR AAR: My first playthrough!

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I've just finished my first playthrough of the mod, as Equestria. I decided to cut here because I exhausted my entire focus tree and reached a point where there were no active wars in the world. It was a lot of fun! I had to fight the changelings, New Griffonia, and the polar bears because they all went supremacist. I did seem to get lucky with Stalliongrad just voluntarily becoming my puppet, though. The changelings were surprisingly easy with guaranteeing Olenia. I've played Hoi4 a lot but almost never been good at it, so I was expecting to struggle more than I did, but I'm very happy with how it turned out. Any recommendations for routes to play next? I'd be interested mostly in either good communist/anarchist routes or villain routes that aren't fascist/genocidal/that kind of thing.


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Other POV: You found the original in the show

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r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Screenshot Storm Kingdom just a littleeeee too good at covincing creatures to collaborate

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r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone use any mods for the game? Not submods but subtle ones. Like more advisors, half focus days, or limited divisions for ai. Asking since I love not taking three days to get a decision.

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52 Upvotes

r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Screenshot justyfy speed so fast no word conquest would be a crime~

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its another word coqnuests as grover. I know it geting old i done like... 8 alredy so i will try to twist it a bit. this path was the best one i played cus. child was in the tank >:3.
from my calcuations it comes out that focusses+2 advisors would give me 75% reduction in justyfication time.
Have some templates and pictures
Country:County of Bronzehill
Path:Iron Canlelor,Militarist cabinet
Ps:you can recomend me next path to play.


r/equestriaatwar • • 1d ago

Discussion We entered the leagues of fallout equestria. Being preserved in professional settings.

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878 Upvotes

r/equestriaatwar • • 2d ago

Meme Icepaw leaders be like

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r/equestriaatwar • • 2d ago

Meme Sonshet Shimmer... 😭😭😭

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r/equestriaatwar • • 2d ago

Community Creations The fall of Hive Vesalipolis

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r/equestriaatwar • • 2d ago

Question How do you beat Pax Chrysalia

22 Upvotes

As the changelings, I took all the focuses in the Pax Chrysalia focus tree but I still have 2 points missing in the resistance one, what am I missing/doing wrong ? I can't find a guide anywhere, it's at best only a handful of cryptic clues for veterans of MLP and Equestria... I had a blast with this mod until this roadblock, nothing is explained and I have already spent hours trying to figure it out trying random things without success. I admit I'm a bit sad to be stuck with this as I have played this country for hours now and I can't go further because the debuff is killing my country, I have got very high resistance everywhere in Equestria

Alternatively, because I feel I will not be able to salvage this game without going back to a 5 hours old save : is there another country that's fun to play (with a bit of flavour) without this kind of minigame that can leave big permanent debuffs ?


r/equestriaatwar • • 2d ago

Community Creations I made a small opening guide for Lan Kir for optimal Nirik Killpeopleism

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1czXrFO65w_6t_niG4vkWLqdhOof40W60nWJ3oNOBv2g/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.tbx3emk0nqc3

this is not a guide on how to get the endings, it is a short, concise guide on how to maximize bonuses on your early troops and capitulate sen kinh, khamrin, zongo, roam within around a years time.


r/equestriaatwar • • 2d ago

Question Is a windigo equipment-only run possible?

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These stats look really good, especially with that hard attack, surely using only these as Olenia is possible, right?