Oh god I was scared for a second because since you typed “the end of hoi4 mods” I thought they were gonna take down everything on the steam workshop or something.
"You can never make this mod as scary as real country war" people when I show them the Three Colthagean Civil Wars, the Post-Arcturian Order Wendigo Deathgod Inception, the Covenant and Pax Chrysalia:
Spoilers ahead. If the Arcturian Order wins against the Dread League you get some insane meta inception with Wendigos and a second war. It's terrifying in how bare bones it looks and how it's presented.
Fun Fact: A large chunk of Hoi IV UA-camrs are in this mod as either: (Don't quote me on this) Mostly generals is some specific nations, I think one is a possible country leader, and that's about it.
Oh hey knife how is the greneclyf rework going?,i Can't wait to play as best girl Gytha and Not have her die,Specially have her end up happily ever after with cenhelm(is incredible as to how gytha invokes "must protect" feelings)
With Zebrica it's a bit of a sad thing, guys had such ambitions for the content that they dug their trenches and were deving this continent for 4 years, still having to cut on a good chuck of things that are suppose to be expanded in the future. As for the Equestria being outdated and needing a rework you don't need to worry, the dev team seems to be working steadly on a rework for it as well as content for civil war breakaway states, one of which will be completely new tag. Ah and Colthage is the best focus tree in all of hoi 4, it must be a greatest nation if they have Zebra Nixon and depressed, alcoholic and spiteful zebra gilf
I'm sure someone has mentioned, but just to make sure - there's actually a ton of content in Zebrica, not just Chiropterra (though there's a ton there, I know, I wrote some of it) but Zarantia and Tobuck have a ton of stuff going on including secret paths, and Colthage? Colthage has secrets hidden behind secrets and civil wars (3 civil wars to get one of the biggest secret paths) as well as the actual novel sized addition writing (events, diaries) of Kiria.
The reason this mod is the best is that while the other big mods sans OWB is faffing about with "realism" and stuff, EaW is making focus trees where: You play as a supernatural spirit of revenge masquerading as a communist leader that summons armies of the land's ancient inhabitants, conquers the neighboring empire he swore revenge on, burns their capital and poisons their rivers, creates fake reconstruction governments that are actually fronts for a scheme of cyclical destruction and construction ensuring that the region will never recover, and magically brainwashes some of the region's own populace into running said reconstruction governments, leaving them in a state where they are genociding themselves while his armies go back to their homeland. After all is said and done, the guy and all those ancient tongue speaking "volunteers" that appeared alongside him disappear in a flash of light in the middle of the celebrations. What other mod can make a path like this?
Saying that the Colthaginian republic gameplay is just surviving and taking over hippogrifia has to be bait. That country has by far the most insane paths in the entire game, with more lore than most novels.
Equestria Girls is canon to the mod, Sunset Shimmer, when she's recruited as a Field Marshal, has a pop up saying that she wrote to her friends to the other side of the portal. The up coming Equestria revamp will likely expand on this.
This mod is probably the best hoi4 mod when it comes to pure gameplay. Each mechanic the mod adds is very well tuned and balanced to make playing different nations fun. It isn't a visual novel, or trying to be an economic simulator. EAW is at its core, trying to be a HOI4 mod, and it does this very very well. EAW is the perfect mod gameplay wise. Story/lore/setting may be offputting, but you can't argue that each path in each nation feels fun and balanced. EDIT: I wrote this comment before watching, so when you said it's the objectively best mod ever made I spit out my cereal.
heres what I need to do. Step 1. Locate the MLP creators Step 2.Force them to play HOI4 Step 3. When they get bored, show them that Step 4.Let them play Step 5.Holy Shit .
What’s even more exciting is that the devs are still working on Zebrica so it has the potential of being just as good or even better then the Griffonia nations.
Not gonna lie, ignoring Tobuck and Zarantia is a real shame. They do start off in pretty shitty positions for different reasons but they're both really fun to play. Tobuck has three warlords and two republican paths (personally my favourite is Walnut Drive's communist path, he's one of the three warlords) and Zarantia is well... On a very good day you'll get to beat a griffon to death with a cane and when you don't you'll wish you did, believe you me. As the main writer for Tobuck I am definitely not biased in any way, shape or form. Also when it comes to Zebrica as a whole there's a lot of content being worked on for it so stay tuned (I'm personally working on the yetis right now). Thanks for the review!
Just a disclaimer, you don't need to watch the entire seasons of MLP:FIM. the Devs said that the mod only follow Season 1 to 6 story before diverge completely from the TV show (maybe)
Yeah. Season seven kind of brought in Time travel and hell and shit. No sense. Though I enjoy Fanfiction of the Series. So I had to watch them all. Also season nine kind of makes A new god. SO LIKE WHAT.
And a lot of the episodes are just 'slice of life' stories that are devoid of lore. You really only need a handful of episodes from the first five seasons and the movie to see major characters and worldbuilding concepts (contact your friendly neighborhood brony for details), plus that one Season 8 episode if you care about the Kirin. P.S. Equestria Girls really isn't that important, either, since it takes place in another universe. They just borrowed some characters from the first three movies (all Equestria Girls stuff after the third movie is kind of a waste of time, in my opinion) P.P.S. Always keep in mind that EaW is basically just a giant fanfiction and at least 90% of its content is OC.
@@twiface69 yep actually none of it is from the show tbh. Like 4 nations have characters in the show. Griffins are kinda unknown. Hippogriffs are just on a island city so like no show just skip the show. Read the lore. Go home.
@@jimmypetrock I counted 15 countries, which is still a tiny fraction. But you're right about everything else. Every country in the show besides Equestria is just a glorified city-state, and there's nowhere near enough lore or characters to make a mod more detailed than what they had at launch, so they had to start making stuff up eventually.
@@twiface69 the changelings are a city state. So is uh the Crystal empire and Yak and. Ok so idea! Split Equestria in the past for a lol april fools path. Cause why not?
There is a secret "April Fools" path, that ties in with the STELLARIS Megastructures mod And both mods are coded that you can *continue* the "joke" nation into Stellaris itself
Well, the Equestrian rework is well underway since a long time. Devs are posting teasers of new Equestria contant and focus tree on their discord from time to time.
This mod is the single reason I ended become a MLP fan. I only watched the show to more understand EAW but I ended up liking it so much I’m literally on S4 of MLP as of currently.
mlp kicks ass yo! i freakin love this show! i hope when i get children im gonna show em MLP, along with spongebob and avatarTLA, they gonna see peak yo
You know, before you mentioned how smooth EaW runs, I never relized it. The shit runs so smoothly its insane. Even with addition mods it still runs great.
Actually both Crystal Empire and Stalliongrad has very interesting hidden formables with unique focus trees. Many other countries in Griffonia have this kind of secret formables too.
Barrad Magocracy is probably the most unique country in the mod. Basically it has a lot of rpg elements and all of the different paths have really unique ways of achieving them. They all end with you destroying to world in some form or fashion and doing insane conquests of you neighbors. Would recommend trying them out if you want a challenge.
If it weren't for processing limitations, we might've even gotten the mythical "Land of Monsters" to the west of Equus, it would've been the homeland of Tirek and Scorpan, and likely Grogar as well. It's interesting to note that like Zebrica in the show, this landmass to the west is also connected to mainland Equus If the devs did implement this continent, it likely would be separated like they did Zebrica, otherwise the naval game during the Great War would be very much changed, tbh I still wished Zebrica was semi connected to Equus but separated by a canal
Spoilers for the mod and a secret path for Equestria The only fun time I had as Equestria is bringing Daybreaker and making the Solar Empire. Reading all events and Celestia going crazy. I did this when the civil war was about to end(it proceeded to last one more year). Then I ended it just in time for Changelings to declare war on me. I started loosing super bad even though I had lvl 3 forts on each border. Thankfully Stalliongrad came to rescue and pulled some of Changelings troops from my border. I started pushing more and more until they capitulated. Then proceeded to do a continent conquest in like one-two years. Recommend to everyone
Hansen, at 1:00 you asked if it was canon to the lore, yes it is. The reason why is because a certain character rips a whole through the dimensions and travels to that dimension meeting his race in a zoo, hangs out with the girls and start a Hard Rock band with Pinkie Pie, and watch Idol shows. On a sidenote, the whole event sequence for the zoo is hilarious, they see them and try to communicate with them as they believe they're from the age of monsters, a time where monsters roamed and ruled the lands where their race were just regular creatures until they gained intelligence. it doesn't work and so they make plans to break them out, but scraps it because they can't bring any tech to that dimension so they give up vowing that one day they'll free their brethren from captivity.
I’ve got an idea for a hoi4 mod, and yes it is inspired by fallout 4. It’s called “Everlasting Winter” Here’s the lore. Remember Vasili Arkhipov? The man that stopped ww3? Yea in this timeline he wasn’t in that soviet submarine. He was replaced by someone else because he was anti war. So all 3 officers pull the trigger and ww3 begins on October 2nd 1962. Nukes fly all over the place with some even blowing up in the Middle East, europe, Africa, South America and Asia. This caused a global nuclear winter which only Oceania survived…. For about 20 years. They eventually got hit by nuclear winter in 1980. And thus, the world was in a nuclear winter. Only 100,000 survived in fallout bunkers. 180 years go by. It is now the year, 2162. Finally, humans can go up to the surface and the nuclear winter was finally over. The First Nation to arise from nuclear fallout was Tasmania. Followed by the People’s Republic of Patagonia and the Kingdom of the Cape. Over the next 20 years, more and more nations raised from nuclear fallout and by 2182, the entire world had arisen from nuclear fallout! And that is where the mod begins. You can play as over 300 nations! Every nation is unique and describes one nations before nuclear fallout. For example, the Empire of Agra describes Pakistan before the nuclear fallout. Each focus tree is very unique! I’ll be explaining the lore of each continent once this comment gets a certain amount of likes. So, if you want to see part one of the Everlasting Winter lore, get this comment to 10 likes! That’s right, you heard me! Like it now!!!
In the lore department, most of it is made up and iirc everything past the beginning or ending of s5 is altered or simply doesn't happen (to make the mod timeline work). Some wacky recommendations and youtuber commentary later I guess that the human world is a thing because Bacon Hair shows up to commit war crimes against the bugs
Fun fact: as of right now, Azir on Zebrica has content. If this comment is how you are finding out about this, i encourage you to go play Azir right now and wait until October 1008 (fun things will start happening) Good luck, and remember: the bell tolls for us all.
LET’S GO GAMBLING! *Jaks get annexed* AW DANG IT *Katerin gets annexed* AW DANG IT! *Buffalos get annexed* AW DANG IT! *Game crashes and you didn’t save* AW DANG IT!
I downloaded hoi4 just for this mod and never played the original. And Wingbardy is the Roman Empire, which in this mod is called the Carfin Empire and Rome is called Carfin. The Crystal Empire has the opportunity to follow the path of King Sombra, but its branch is quite boring, except perhaps for a secret joke with the possibility of the wedding of King Sombra and the ruler of Stalliongrad, Sinister Serov... And the Hippogriffs also have a secret path through the Sirens with a rather interesting branch of tricks and lore related with the original lore of the series, albeit redone to make it possible to logically add 3 Sirens to the game.
Met a dude that claimed to be a dev for the mod and when he said "I don't play vanilla mods anymore" to joining an OWB game my response was "what too boring" "No I'm a lore writer for the new continent in EaW" "Oh that will keep you busy" "You have no idea"
My observations and corrections on this video: 0:36 While true, it isn’t too deep or anything, just mainly very important events in the history. 0:52 This is surprisingly wrong. You only really need a basic grasp of the show’s lore before hopping in, and even then you don’t really even need to, as so much is just made up by the devs. There’s even a playlist of all the episodes you need to watch if you really want to be caught up. 1:34 Azir jumpscare 2:57 Did you know that Nova Griffonia can become trademarked if you take a certain path in the focus tree? (It even get’s the rights reserved symbol on the end of its name). 3:25 The Polar Bears were only updated about half a year ago, and yes, Hyperbearia is very funny. 3:43 Sadly, it’s only Equestria and Stalliongrad getting reworked (as the Dec team constantly reminds us). 4:03 LORD PROTECTOR JUMPSCARE! Also, very important to inform you that the Griffonian Empire only references the HRE slightly, it’s mostly based off of the German Empire. If you want the HRE, go play the DemSocs in Angriver. 5:18 You absolute traitor. How dare you only put Trimmel in charge of the tanks. How dare you replace him with.. with… FULTONI! Trimmel had to fight in two civil wars to earn that position.TRIMMEL IS A FIVE SKILL FIELD MARSHAL FOR CHRYSALIS’ SAKE! Anyway, nice video.
BTW the Realm of Kiria may be the greatest experience I've ever had in hoi4. Brilliant and incredibly dense lore with so many gameplay options it legitimately boggles the mind
What remix of Die Young is the outro for this vid? Also great vid, I actually forgot about this mod until now, will give it a shot because I haven't played it since it got released.
This mod is great, but I've not played that many countries. I always struggle to find what to play, for a variety of reasons. I don't want a nation that's above my skill at the game (900 hours, rookie numbers), but I also want one that's got a path that is interesting to me. That last part is especially subjective and hard to define, but still. I've had this problem with other mods too, but since this is in a different world, it's a bit more difficult. To put it simply... If anyone has some fun (but not too difficult) nations to recommend, I'd be grateful. Yeah, there's that wiki page about it, but I want to hear from the individual players.
I think if you want a simple challange I think Griffonian Republic can be nice for starters that want to have some expansion and relatively good country to play
(I suppose you play historical) A fun country to play as is Polar Bears while submitting to changelings: You do a bit of story of the path you chose, when changelings attacks you change path and have the madbear, if changelings starts to lose the great war you can straight up betray them and having another small path with some decisions. Basically until the very end you can't lose Both Chiropterra/(suprematist/militarists coup) Colthage are good: You have some small wars and in the big one you get help from Wingbardy, if you can't naval invade Hippogriffs you can white peace while keeping the mainland Aquileia/Griffinian Empire (non coup) both are pretty easy and simple
I personally recommend Aquilea monarchist path (a bit of a challenge mid game but really fun to play with a nice story) or as Luna/Nightmare Moon in the Equestrian Civil War
@@mirovini. I've just started playing the Aqualian Republic, quite good. They don't seem as powerful as the Griffonian Empire, but you still have a good amount of industry for a not too challenging time. Maybe I'll try the Monarch path at some point too.
I have the same problem myself. The first country I played was Lake City, because the EaW wiki recommended it for beginners. Chiropterra is also a personal favorite because of how unique it is. Both are small enough to be easy to manage but not so backward that it isn't fun. Both get to fight wars of expansion and have allies to shoulder the burden so it's unlikely you'll lose. Bakara and New Mareland if they break their respective alliances and go independent, both have a lot of fun alternate paths but are somewhat challenging (remember: the game settings are your friend!) Equestrian Civil War breakaways are interesting, but you probably won't survive if the winner of the war tries to reclaim you. I still think they're worth playing just for the novelty.
1:07 nonsense, there can never be too much lore when it comes to kids cartoons that have, for some unfathomable reason, become popular with audiences older than intended
Auto did not mention the secret paths on the same Zebrika, there are 4 of them, 2 of which are in countries that do not initially have focuses. Of these 4 secret paths, 2 can be stretched over 10 years. And the communist path of the Hypogriffs is generally one of the best countries in terms of development. I’ve always been playing on it for about 18 years, because the technologies that are in fashion and the tricks of the country themselves allow it. The best mod, I’ve been playing it for more than a year, it has long replaced my regular heart of iron 4. I never got tired of it
The only time I've played the mod is with a mod where it adds the US and 2 other human countries into it and you can liberate the Griffonian content for oil and stuff
Recommend trying the Escalation '84 submod for EAW, it adds humans into the world all across the continents (USSR and EU are on Equestria, America is on Griffonia, and there are more nations being added soon).
I wouldn’t say it’s the absolute best but Equestria at war is definitely up there with the best mods made for Hoi4, my fav country to play is Griffonian empire and I was surprised that it has lost unification content
@@Saffi____ yeah thats the one theres also another one called New German Order I think where its the same concept as Escalation 84 but with 1945 Germany That ones still in early development tho
Ha, Aris doesn't get expansion, hah. It does, you just need to go down the hidden path to get it (tie in to EQ Girls). And nice shout out to the best nation with the best emperor.
It's not equestria girls that is canon, it's kaiserreich so the portal that takes you to the equestria girls world in EAW takes you to Kaiserreich cuz of a april fools update
![[UA] NAVI vs MOUZ | BO5 | IEM Rio 2024](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CMBYk0cbGoA/mqdefault.jpg)
Oh god I was scared for a second because since you typed “the end of hoi4 mods” I thought they were gonna take down everything on the steam workshop or something.
same thing man
Clickbait at its finest
Same here!
Same man
what why? thats actually the fattest leap in logic ive ever seen
How can a pony mod be this good?
The magic of friendship I guess.
And that you can also poison the water supply with chemical bio weapons
the magic of pedophilia
And also SLAVERY, War crimes, ACTUAL GENOCIDE, NUKES AND MANY MANY MAAAANNNY more
Its not friendship
*Its war*
And if friendship fails try war crimes... which there are a lot in this mod.
"...and as a friend, let me give you a friendly reminder: our other option is a war crime, so choose wisely!"
"You can never make this mod as scary as real country war" people when I show them the Three Colthagean Civil Wars, the Post-Arcturian Order Wendigo Deathgod Inception, the Covenant and Pax Chrysalia:
What is the post arcturian order?
@@mxlibancap3115 The Windigoes show up and try to murder them.
Spoilers ahead.
If the Arcturian Order wins against the Dread League you get some insane meta inception with Wendigos and a second war. It's terrifying in how bare bones it looks and how it's presented.
Yeah can i also say If you like THE HOLY SUN *go try the daybreaker path ITS AWESOME*
Preferably during the Great War where you don’t get massacred in the civil war
love it that equestria is more stable and in better performance than base Hoi.
heh, stable
@@hunterowl1756 Best comment
The key was reducing Industry and poneypower, reducing the lategame army size.
Fun Fact: A large chunk of Hoi IV UA-camrs are in this mod as either: (Don't quote me on this) Mostly generals is some specific nations, I think one is a possible country leader, and that's about it.
They are mostly as generals or advisors or both, so far none of them made a lawsuit about it
Yeah, even TommyKay is in it
@@nathanlim867even him ? In whot country ?
@@potato88872 griffon nation of Yale
@@nathanlim867 country leader or something else ?
Hello from the Katerin dev and part of the Greneclyf Rework at the moment!
Glad to see you make an EaW vid. And that you enjoyed our mod!
Oh shit hey Knife.
@@basedimperialism hello
Oh hey knife how is the greneclyf rework going?,i Can't wait to play as best girl Gytha and Not have her die,Specially have her end up happily ever after with cenhelm(is incredible as to how gytha invokes "must protect" feelings)
@@kevinhenrique4256
I think we're finally out of GUI hell.
@@kevinhenrique4256 Yuri has been busy with exams and GUI hell. I haven't been up to too much at the moment.
With Zebrica it's a bit of a sad thing, guys had such ambitions for the content that they dug their trenches and were deving this continent for 4 years, still having to cut on a good chuck of things that are suppose to be expanded in the future. As for the Equestria being outdated and needing a rework you don't need to worry, the dev team seems to be working steadly on a rework for it as well as content for civil war breakaway states, one of which will be completely new tag.
Ah and Colthage is the best focus tree in all of hoi 4, it must be a greatest nation if they have Zebra Nixon and depressed, alcoholic and spiteful zebra gilf
I’ll take words that should never have been used in the same sentence for 500
gilf brought me to tears of horror
If bronies did not exist it would be necessary to invent them
If you look into it, they really are the backbone of internet culture and content creation.
That is the most insane string of words ive ever read.
I must be insane for it makes sense
I'm sure someone has mentioned, but just to make sure - there's actually a ton of content in Zebrica, not just Chiropterra (though there's a ton there, I know, I wrote some of it) but Zarantia and Tobuck have a ton of stuff going on including secret paths, and Colthage? Colthage has secrets hidden behind secrets and civil wars (3 civil wars to get one of the biggest secret paths) as well as the actual novel sized addition writing (events, diaries) of Kiria.
It sounds like he's talking about an older build of the mod, Olenia in Equestria had a rework pretty recently too.
Plus if you decide to use teh april fools update, you also get to have kaiser katzen!
The reason this mod is the best is that while the other big mods sans OWB is faffing about with "realism" and stuff, EaW is making focus trees where:
You play as a supernatural spirit of revenge masquerading as a communist leader that summons armies of the land's ancient inhabitants, conquers the neighboring empire he swore revenge on, burns their capital and poisons their rivers, creates fake reconstruction governments that are actually fronts for a scheme of cyclical destruction and construction ensuring that the region will never recover, and magically brainwashes some of the region's own populace into running said reconstruction governments, leaving them in a state where they are genociding themselves while his armies go back to their homeland. After all is said and done, the guy and all those ancient tongue speaking "volunteers" that appeared alongside him disappear in a flash of light in the middle of the celebrations.
What other mod can make a path like this?
I need to know which country this is please tell me
@@rosanero5250 Longsword
@@rosanero5250 Longsword. Side with the ponies, let the supremacists coup after the civil war, let the communists counter-coup afterwards.
@@paradoxicaloutcome1007 cool thanks
Red flood
Thats the mod that can make a path like that, though at least in EaW it isnt just a state of mind and is actual supernatural stuff
Saying that the Colthaginian republic gameplay is just surviving and taking over hippogrifia has to be bait.
That country has by far the most insane paths in the entire game, with more lore than most novels.
Equestria Girls is canon to the mod, Sunset Shimmer, when she's recruited as a Field Marshal, has a pop up saying that she wrote to her friends to the other side of the portal. The up coming Equestria revamp will likely expand on this.
IIRC, in EAW, the Mirror World is actually Kaiserriech.
@@josephcola9662 That was an April Fools scenario and is not canon.
You forgot Big Sister's 1984 type beat nation right next to wingbardy 💀
And with submod, you even can form the even more *cursed* verson, *ONE STATE...*
This mod is probably the best hoi4 mod when it comes to pure gameplay. Each mechanic the mod adds is very well tuned and balanced to make playing different nations fun. It isn't a visual novel, or trying to be an economic simulator. EAW is at its core, trying to be a HOI4 mod, and it does this very very well.
EAW is the perfect mod gameplay wise. Story/lore/setting may be offputting, but you can't argue that each path in each nation feels fun and balanced.
EDIT: I wrote this comment before watching, so when you said it's the objectively best mod ever made I spit out my cereal.
The EAW team is also doing an EU4 mod in the same universe.
Holy shit EAW megacampain
heres what I need to do.
Step 1. Locate the MLP creators
Step 2.Force them to play HOI4
Step 3. When they get bored, show them that
Step 4.Let them play
Step 5.Holy Shit .
im sure atleast a few of them know of EAW
@lauren Faust, we need you to play a game....
Step 2.1.Teach them how to play
@@miawmiawgary2024
No, it's funnier
What’s even more exciting is that the devs are still working on Zebrica so it has the potential of being just as good or even better then the Griffonia nations.
Not gonna lie, ignoring Tobuck and Zarantia is a real shame. They do start off in pretty shitty positions for different reasons but they're both really fun to play. Tobuck has three warlords and two republican paths (personally my favourite is Walnut Drive's communist path, he's one of the three warlords) and Zarantia is well... On a very good day you'll get to beat a griffon to death with a cane and when you don't you'll wish you did, believe you me.
As the main writer for Tobuck I am definitely not biased in any way, shape or form.
Also when it comes to Zebrica as a whole there's a lot of content being worked on for it so stay tuned (I'm personally working on the yetis right now). Thanks for the review!
I thought I recognized you from the Discord.
Just a disclaimer, you don't need to watch the entire seasons of MLP:FIM. the Devs said that the mod only follow Season 1 to 6 story before diverge completely from the TV show (maybe)
Yeah. Season seven kind of brought in Time travel and hell and shit. No sense. Though I enjoy Fanfiction of the Series. So I had to watch them all. Also season nine kind of makes A new god. SO LIKE WHAT.
And a lot of the episodes are just 'slice of life' stories that are devoid of lore. You really only need a handful of episodes from the first five seasons and the movie to see major characters and worldbuilding concepts (contact your friendly neighborhood brony for details), plus that one Season 8 episode if you care about the Kirin.
P.S. Equestria Girls really isn't that important, either, since it takes place in another universe. They just borrowed some characters from the first three movies (all Equestria Girls stuff after the third movie is kind of a waste of time, in my opinion)
P.P.S. Always keep in mind that EaW is basically just a giant fanfiction and at least 90% of its content is OC.
@@twiface69 yep actually none of it is from the show tbh. Like 4 nations have characters in the show. Griffins are kinda unknown. Hippogriffs are just on a island city so like no show just skip the show. Read the lore. Go home.
@@jimmypetrock I counted 15 countries, which is still a tiny fraction. But you're right about everything else. Every country in the show besides Equestria is just a glorified city-state, and there's nowhere near enough lore or characters to make a mod more detailed than what they had at launch, so they had to start making stuff up eventually.
@@twiface69 the changelings are a city state. So is uh the Crystal empire and Yak and. Ok so idea! Split Equestria in the past for a lol april fools path. Cause why not?
There is a secret "April Fools" path, that ties in with the STELLARIS Megastructures mod
And both mods are coded that you can *continue* the "joke" nation into Stellaris itself
Truly the mod of ends, leave a like to
Well, the Equestrian rework is well underway since a long time. Devs are posting teasers of new Equestria contant and focus tree on their discord from time to time.
Yes, last year the dev working on it gave an interview on some obscure podcast.
I am more hoping for the Redux submod
@@Eaw-Enjoyer tno also needs a redux mod that adds more schixo paths and adds the old schizo paths back aswell
Kiria will fall again
This mod is the single reason I ended become a MLP fan. I only watched the show to more understand EAW but I ended up liking it so much I’m literally on S4 of MLP as of currently.
mlp kicks ass yo! i freakin love this show! i hope when i get children im gonna show em MLP, along with spongebob and avatarTLA, they gonna see peak yo
As someone who never watched mlp (i only played this mod like a few times) im considering doing the same tbh
You know, before you mentioned how smooth EaW runs, I never relized it. The shit runs so smoothly its insane. Even with addition mods it still runs great.
Several of the mod's tweaks to the engines have been put into HOI4 by PDX
@@Eyclonusit's paradox's favorite mod. they also hired someone from the eaw team if I remember correctly.
If you play the polar bears (specifically the puppet breaks free path) EG is implied to be canon, because of some portal shenanigans
And there's also white walkers.
Actually both Crystal Empire and Stalliongrad has very interesting hidden formables with unique focus trees. Many other countries in Griffonia have this kind of secret formables too.
Barrad Magocracy is probably the most unique country in the mod. Basically it has a lot of rpg elements and all of the different paths have really unique ways of achieving them. They all end with you destroying to world in some form or fashion and doing insane conquests of you neighbors. Would recommend trying them out if you want a challenge.
If it weren't for processing limitations, we might've even gotten the mythical "Land of Monsters" to the west of Equus, it would've been the homeland of Tirek and Scorpan, and likely Grogar as well.
It's interesting to note that like Zebrica in the show, this landmass to the west is also connected to mainland Equus
If the devs did implement this continent, it likely would be separated like they did Zebrica, otherwise the naval game during the Great War would be very much changed, tbh I still wished Zebrica was semi connected to Equus but separated by a canal
Spoilers for the mod and a secret path for Equestria
The only fun time I had as Equestria is bringing Daybreaker and making the Solar Empire. Reading all events and Celestia going crazy. I did this when the civil war was about to end(it proceeded to last one more year). Then I ended it just in time for Changelings to declare war on me. I started loosing super bad even though I had lvl 3 forts on each border. Thankfully Stalliongrad came to rescue and pulled some of Changelings troops from my border. I started pushing more and more until they capitulated. Then proceeded to do a continent conquest in like one-two years. Recommend to everyone
Someone made a mod where you could bring a mustache man into MLP world.
something i love about equestria is the sheer ammount of references to hoi4 content, the entire TNO parts are awesome little treats
This and Fallout Old World Blues have crossovers with each other. Fantastic.
Hansen, at 1:00 you asked if it was canon to the lore, yes it is.
The reason why is because a certain character rips a whole through the dimensions and travels to that dimension meeting his race in a zoo, hangs out with the girls and start a Hard Rock band with Pinkie Pie, and watch Idol shows.
On a sidenote, the whole event sequence for the zoo is hilarious, they see them and try to communicate with them as they believe they're from the age of monsters, a time where monsters roamed and ruled the lands where their race were just regular creatures until they gained intelligence.
it doesn't work and so they make plans to break them out, but scraps it because they can't bring any tech to that dimension so they give up vowing that one day they'll free their brethren from captivity.
I’ve got an idea for a hoi4 mod, and yes it is inspired by fallout 4. It’s called “Everlasting Winter” Here’s the lore. Remember Vasili Arkhipov? The man that stopped ww3? Yea in this timeline he wasn’t in that soviet submarine. He was replaced by someone else because he was anti war. So all 3 officers pull the trigger and ww3 begins on October 2nd 1962. Nukes fly all over the place with some even blowing up in the Middle East, europe, Africa, South America and Asia. This caused a global nuclear winter which only Oceania survived…. For about 20 years. They eventually got hit by nuclear winter in 1980. And thus, the world was in a nuclear winter. Only 100,000 survived in fallout bunkers. 180 years go by. It is now the year, 2162. Finally, humans can go up to the surface and the nuclear winter was finally over. The First Nation to arise from nuclear fallout was Tasmania. Followed by the People’s Republic of Patagonia and the Kingdom of the Cape. Over the next 20 years, more and more nations raised from nuclear fallout and by 2182, the entire world had arisen from nuclear fallout! And that is where the mod begins. You can play as over 300 nations! Every nation is unique and describes one nations before nuclear fallout. For example, the Empire of Agra describes Pakistan before the nuclear fallout. Each focus tree is very unique! I’ll be explaining the lore of each continent once this comment gets a certain amount of likes. So, if you want to see part one of the Everlasting Winter lore, get this comment to 10 likes! That’s right, you heard me! Like it now!!!
Equestria Girls is cannon to EaW since Sirenalia exists.
Sunset Shimmer exists. We know that there is a mirror world, it’s just not explained if it is as (that show) shows.
In the lore department, most of it is made up and iirc everything past the beginning or ending of s5 is altered or simply doesn't happen (to make the mod timeline work).
Some wacky recommendations and youtuber commentary later I guess that the human world is a thing because Bacon Hair shows up to commit war crimes against the bugs
You forgot about the supremacist king sombra route for the crystal enpire
the crystal empire has fallen, billions must give up their magic
Even Stakuyi played this and had fun, it’s just objectively great stuff guys.
Shinji, Get in the VS Code.
Fun fact: as of right now, Azir on Zebrica has content. If this comment is how you are finding out about this, i encourage you to go play Azir right now and wait until October 1008 (fun things will start happening)
Good luck, and remember: the bell tolls for us all.
LET’S GO GAMBLING!
*Jaks get annexed*
AW DANG IT
*Katerin gets annexed*
AW DANG IT!
*Buffalos get annexed*
AW DANG IT!
*Game crashes and you didn’t save*
AW DANG IT!
I downloaded hoi4 just for this mod and never played the original. And Wingbardy is the Roman Empire, which in this mod is called the Carfin Empire and Rome is called Carfin. The Crystal Empire has the opportunity to follow the path of King Sombra, but its branch is quite boring, except perhaps for a secret joke with the possibility of the wedding of King Sombra and the ruler of Stalliongrad, Sinister Serov... And the Hippogriffs also have a secret path through the Sirens with a rather interesting branch of tricks and lore related with the original lore of the series, albeit redone to make it possible to logically add 3 Sirens to the game.
Met a dude that claimed to be a dev for the mod and when he said "I don't play vanilla mods anymore" to joining an OWB game my response was "what too boring" "No I'm a lore writer for the new continent in EaW" "Oh that will keep you busy" "You have no idea"
Colthage's goal is not to avoid collapse. Colthage's goal is TO collapse into civil war(s).
Still waiting for that Equestria Liberation Front video
Equestria Grirls is definitely part of the cannon due to the return of Sunset Shimmer for the Great War
And I thought TNO and Red Flood were schizophrenic
EVANGELION REFERENCE!!!!!
You left out the Sombra path for Crystal Empire.
Imagine working on the MLP cartoon and having a bunch of weird people demand you keep the world building consistent with the lore of a mod
My observations and corrections on this video:
0:36 While true, it isn’t too deep or anything, just mainly very important events in the history.
0:52 This is surprisingly wrong. You only really need a basic grasp of the show’s lore before hopping in, and even then you don’t really even need to, as so much is just made up by the devs. There’s even a playlist of all the episodes you need to watch if you really want to be caught up.
1:34 Azir jumpscare
2:57 Did you know that Nova Griffonia can become trademarked if you take a certain path in the focus tree? (It even get’s the rights reserved symbol on the end of its name).
3:25 The Polar Bears were only updated about half a year ago, and yes, Hyperbearia is very funny.
3:43 Sadly, it’s only Equestria and Stalliongrad getting reworked (as the Dec team constantly reminds us).
4:03 LORD PROTECTOR JUMPSCARE! Also, very important to inform you that the Griffonian Empire only references the HRE slightly, it’s mostly based off of the German Empire. If you want the HRE, go play the DemSocs in Angriver.
5:18 You absolute traitor. How dare you only put Trimmel in charge of the tanks. How dare you replace him with.. with… FULTONI! Trimmel had to fight in two civil wars to earn that position.TRIMMEL IS A FIVE SKILL FIELD MARSHAL FOR CHRYSALIS’ SAKE!
Anyway, nice video.
Little does his man know there is a mod that brings Germany into equestrian.
Horse 🗿
I feel like i have seen you before.....
@@justusP9101 from where?
@@R_TERRA916 well.. everywhere. Don’t you usually advertise some dutch cartoon?
@@justusP9101 Yes, I do.
It's called Ongezellig.
Ongezellig is a small Dutch web series on UA-cam.
@@justusP9101 Yes, I do.
It's called Ongezellig
Hippogriffia has 20 different paths, but they are hidden. All states on Zebrica have many hidden paths.
Correction: all states with focus trees. Sadly, I am still waiting for the Storm King Successor Battle Royale
BTW the Realm of Kiria may be the greatest experience I've ever had in hoi4. Brilliant and incredibly dense lore with so many gameplay options it legitimately boggles the mind
The way bro talked about Zebrica he clearly hasn't played as the worm queen.
All praise the worms
It’s funny because eu4 has this in the form of anbennar without the bronies and half the interest
anbennar as way more recognition in the Europa community though where EaW as a lot of hate from people that have never play it because of the pony
The smoothest running mod for sure, no lag whatsoever
Since you missed it I suggest playing Tobuck, my fav nation by far, its replayability and writing is some of the best in the mod
Don’t forget, Hyperbearia in the mod proves the equestria girls world is canonically in the universe of the mod.
What remix of Die Young is the outro for this vid? Also great vid, I actually forgot about this mod until now, will give it a shot because I haven't played it since it got released.
Yukai young
@@hansenfoulken Cheerios man!
Red flood, makes hoi4 historically accurate
Would watch a 3 hour review video about this mod
You didn't mention the fact that you can do genocide with Hellquill
When i play the mode the war machine clicks in my head no happiness just war
The only reason I've bought hoi4. I have to play my Changelings.
This mod is great, but I've not played that many countries. I always struggle to find what to play, for a variety of reasons. I don't want a nation that's above my skill at the game (900 hours, rookie numbers), but I also want one that's got a path that is interesting to me. That last part is especially subjective and hard to define, but still. I've had this problem with other mods too, but since this is in a different world, it's a bit more difficult.
To put it simply... If anyone has some fun (but not too difficult) nations to recommend, I'd be grateful. Yeah, there's that wiki page about it, but I want to hear from the individual players.
I think if you want a simple challange I think Griffonian Republic can be nice for starters that want to have some expansion and relatively good country to play
(I suppose you play historical)
A fun country to play as is Polar Bears while submitting to changelings:
You do a bit of story of the path you chose, when changelings attacks you change path and have the madbear, if changelings starts to lose the great war you can straight up betray them and having another small path with some decisions.
Basically until the very end you can't lose
Both Chiropterra/(suprematist/militarists coup) Colthage are good:
You have some small wars and in the big one you get help from Wingbardy, if you can't naval invade Hippogriffs you can white peace while keeping the mainland
Aquileia/Griffinian Empire (non coup) both are pretty easy and simple
I personally recommend Aquilea monarchist path (a bit of a challenge mid game but really fun to play with a nice story) or as Luna/Nightmare Moon in the Equestrian Civil War
@@mirovini. I've just started playing the Aqualian Republic, quite good. They don't seem as powerful as the Griffonian Empire, but you still have a good amount of industry for a not too challenging time.
Maybe I'll try the Monarch path at some point too.
I have the same problem myself.
The first country I played was Lake City, because the EaW wiki recommended it for beginners. Chiropterra is also a personal favorite because of how unique it is. Both are small enough to be easy to manage but not so backward that it isn't fun. Both get to fight wars of expansion and have allies to shoulder the burden so it's unlikely you'll lose.
Bakara and New Mareland if they break their respective alliances and go independent, both have a lot of fun alternate paths but are somewhat challenging (remember: the game settings are your friend!)
Equestrian Civil War breakaways are interesting, but you probably won't survive if the winner of the war tries to reclaim you. I still think they're worth playing just for the novelty.
still waiting for someone to make a mod about roblox OH RIGHT THERE IS A CENTURA HOI4 BEING MADE
Equestria at war convinced me to watch my little pony. Good show 6/10.
lore...so much lore that if game theory ever had to stumble upon this
i dont even know what would happen
Six hour video?
hansen
k-on
hoi4
curious
There is also the Escalation 84 sub mod that adds America, the USSR and the EU to Equestria at war
1:07 nonsense, there can never be too much lore when it comes to kids cartoons that have, for some unfathomable reason, become popular with audiences older than intended
I modded myself into that mod and modded custom 3d models for my army
Then I proceeded to invade everyone
I really wonder how other modders could compete
Auto did not mention the secret paths on the same Zebrika, there are 4 of them, 2 of which are in countries that do not initially have focuses. Of these 4 secret paths, 2 can be stretched over 10 years. And the communist path of the Hypogriffs is generally one of the best countries in terms of development. I’ve always been playing on it for about 18 years, because the technologies that are in fashion and the tricks of the country themselves allow it. The best mod, I’ve been playing it for more than a year, it has long replaced my regular heart of iron 4. I never got tired of it
Its like a mix of neon gensis and ponys and tno💀
From my experience, EAW only desyncs once during multiplayer, right at the beginning
There’s no reason why a MLP HOI4 mod should be this good.
The only time I've played the mod is with a mod where it adds the US and 2 other human countries into it and you can liberate the Griffonian content for oil and stuff
Was it Escalation '84?
@@twiface69 yes
Don't forget the post war tech trees for a full on Cold War experience.
One of my favorite features is how well balanced each reuin is before scaling up, it has the same intelligence as TNO russia, EVERYWHERE.
I hope to one day see the G5 events in Equestria At War
I EDGE TO MY LITTLE PONY 🎉🎉🎉🎉
If you fail you're a furry.
Correction equestria girls is canon due to sunset shimmer and the polaria girls in the polar bears occupation focus tree
Recommend trying the Escalation '84 submod for EAW, it adds humans into the world all across the continents (USSR and EU are on Equestria, America is on Griffonia, and there are more nations being added soon).
I did have issues running this mod with other mods, so it’s good to keep that in mind, otherwise this mod is the only reason I play hoi4 still
He didn't talk about the Dread League.......
I wouldn’t say it’s the absolute best but Equestria at war is definitely up there with the best mods made for Hoi4, my fav country to play is Griffonian empire and I was surprised that it has lost unification content
Your local OWB Dev here.
Declaring EAW the best HOI4 mod ever made insults me and the homies in OWB.
I think there is another mod that is MLP but there are also human nations. So humanity can finally conquer Equestria and forge a true empire.
Escalation 84?
@@DOppler-kr4hj That might actually be it. I haven't looked at it for a while so my memory is lacking.
@@Saffi____ yeah thats the one
theres also another one called New German Order I think where its the same concept as Escalation 84 but with 1945 Germany
That ones still in early development tho
@@Saffi____ I think that's an EaW submod. So you need regular EaW to run it, since it's just EaW with humans tacked on.
Wait till he hears about the German submod...
My fav was new marryland MARSOC focus is literally 1984💀
Hearing "TNO-Inspired" and "Hyperborea" in an mlp mod... just feels wrong ☠️
Ha, Aris doesn't get expansion, hah. It does, you just need to go down the hidden path to get it (tie in to EQ Girls). And nice shout out to the best nation with the best emperor.
To be honest im shocked the mlp community had enough overlap with hoi 4 for such a high quality and high effort mod to be made. Like. Christ
hansen you should play old world blues as the enclave its pretty fun
NGAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
*rev up noises*
*tank motors*
It's not equestria girls that is canon, it's kaiserreich so the portal that takes you to the equestria girls world in EAW takes you to Kaiserreich cuz of a april fools update