Equestria At War looks deep and I respect the amount of work that’s gone into it, but I wish this mod was made for a far better game, like Fallout New Vegas. We’ve already got pony mods for the game, both Equine and Anthro race mods, and that’s all you really need for a pony mod. Fallout 3 had Matrix machines so nobody would mind if there was a modded quest in FNV where you have to enter the Pony Matrix to befriend ponies, defeat CelestAI, and unlock a door full of supplies in the real world.
HOI4 isn’t a fun or interesting game, it’s a strategy-less strategy game where you build up numbers and then throw them at your opponent. You win if your numbers are bigger, and inevitably lose if your numbers are lower. Instead of making quick decisions with lasting consequences, you choose actions designed to “Pay off” 100-200 days from now when you’re allowed to click the button that declares war or whatever. Spending numbers to build forts and walls sometimes helps but usually doesn’t. Too much of this game is spent waiting around for bars to autofill, there’s no way to queue up things to research, and the only interesting part of strategy games (moving your units around on the map) is automated for you by the game’s AI. Draw your line, draw the line you want to take, and let the AI automate the thinking out of your strategy game. It’s terrible.