hey all as i said in there I will be doing other mods and things for the next several videos as I believe we have done this a lot. That being said if the video gets 10k likes we will do another one

“We’re a slaver state… … that is modernized… … working in a continent… … based off of Africa… Fuck am I the vampire Portuguese?” That made me laugh

If you know 40K, the whole Nightmare Moon rebellion could be described as a kid-friendly version of Horus Heresy.

Operation Moonshine's result depends on what Equestria does. And if you were playing on Historical it'll always fail. Nothing much else you can do from Chiropterra to change the result apart from setting which path Equestria will from the Custom Options at the start. Chiropterra gets different focus tree depending on what Equestria does.

So as you might already get from this nation, the nation of Chiropterra is all about returning a show-canon character called Nightmare Moon, who is the dark alter ego that corrupted Princess Luna due to her jealousy over 1000 years ago. As she always said, while ponies basked in Celestia's sunlight, they often slept through Luna's moonlight. Nightmare Moon is a disease that has no business returning and overwhelming Luna again, yet Nightmare Moon's most zealous followers, aka Chiropterra, continue to work towards that very return, and I think its one of the coolest antagonistic nations in the entire mod as a result. The funny thing is that Equestria CAN enter a civil war, which opens up an entirely new path for Chiropterra as a whole, and even has tons of breakaway states you can play as if you so choose (although some are more developed than others, and all of them are relatively outdated by now), and really sees them (chiropterra) at their overall best. You should check that out at some point, though you should probably set Equestria to having that in the options, just so you arent constantly resetting until it happens.

Puns are a sign of intelligence. Knowing when to use them is a sign of wisdom. Throwing wisdom out the window and using them ALL THE TIME is the sign of being a Dad. This mod went past Dad and went straight to the entire Dad council. On beer night. It's glorious.

EaW dev and writer for a fair amount of this nation, the starting screen, other bits - yeah, so there was an event which pointed out about the resistance screen. As to the 'failure' of project moonshine (the initial tree) - this happens if equestria does NOT break into civil war, which is the default route if historical focuses are left on. Otherwise, you move to support the Lunar Empire (which is what a lot of those juicy buffs were for) in reclaiming Equestria from where you are. Now that you've seen this route, don't worry - there's only about another 380 focuses across a bunch of routes to do :) By the way, for info - if you see a book icon on a state, click it. There's lore written there, and sometimes useful info about the background of the region, hinting at conflicts which might arise.

"Fuck, am I the vampire Portugese‽" Every time the revelation sets in is absolutely glorious.

15:11: I am convinced, that he keeps rambling about "Salvation!", "One million lives!", and his "crisp white sheets".

"ONE. MILLION. LIVES!" - Admiral Perfect Shot

As much as I don’t want Stakuyi to go fully insane from Ponies… I feel that no one else on KZfaq can make content on this massive mod in a fun to watch and understandable manner. I legit feel that they’ll do every single faction. I have been informed that there is one other legendary fellow that also is really in depth when it comes to these mods: dshakey. He’s great, watch his stuff

Your Admiral being just Captain Torres From Ace Combat 7, was not something I was thinking I was going to see. But I am ALL here for it.

“Slavery… gets shit done”- stayuki 2023

The night mare isn't just a pun it's also a mythological creature that causes night terrors. From Germany according to a quick Google search.

the ponified version of "Inhumane" is "Inequine" for future use.

I just imagine, like, Discord behind him, smiling as this poor mortal is forced to comprehend MLP war games. It's just a fantastic wonder.

15:16 Bro...do NOT let that guy near a hyper advance aircraft carrier submarine with the capability of lauching nukes to take 1 million lives

15:15 I know that mug shot anywhere. A HOI4 game, with a MLP mod, with a Ace Combat 7 reference of Captain Matias Torres...

"Ultra militaristic slaver state" Flashbacks to TNO: Germany and Burgundy

Nightmare Moon was the corrupted sister of Equestria's leader. She gets purified by magic necklaces in the show. There, now you know!

We gotta get it up to 10k guys. As much as I hate seeing someone put themselves in pain like this, this is the best HOI4 or MLP content I’ve ever seen.

What I love is that puns like Nightmare moon are directly from the show, it's ingrained in the fandom

IS THE PERFECT SHOT ADMIRAL LITERALLY JUST MATIAS TORRES FROM ACE COMBAT 7

Congratulations Stakuyi. You are now a consistent MLP HOI4 KZfaqr

2:40 - Actually, no. You were right about the Nightmare being like a night terror. The fact that the word nightmare has the word 'mare' in it really is just a linguistic benefit to the pony puns. The full name is Nightmare Moon. Formerly Princess Luna, her responsibility was to travel through and protect her subjects' dreams from actual sentient night terrors that CAN enter the real world if they blow pony's fears out of proportion in their sleep or something. However, she got corrupted by one of the monsters due to it playing off of her own insecurities due to some stupid crap going on in her waking life and thus became a tyrannical monster that had to be banished to the moon. The bat ponies followed Princess Luna, and stayed loyal to her even after turning into Nightmare Moon.

3:34 >Am I the vampire portuguese? Most people just call them romanians,but sure you can be technical and go to the definition.

I do not know why captain Torres is in pony world but i am 100% not complaining about it.

15:11 That admiral is ready to sacrifice one million lives xD

I actually played this as Changelings after seeing your videos on it, and essentially took too long to conquer Equestria. Bonus ran out, stalemate began, Stalliongrad had attacked Equestria and lost BADLY, got flanked from the north, lost the war. Also I forgot to put up my manpower and industry, so I ran out at the worst possible time; when Stalliongrad itself had capitulated and that front took far less resources from Equestria and Crystal.

The event was on equestrias side that blocked you. As an equestiran early event chain is destroying the racism against bat ponies or ignoring it for bonuses.

the more gamer the nation, the more fun the game

2:40 fun fact this is original MLP lore it wasn't even the mod's fault this time

The North Zebrica War is very interesting if you play as the United Kingdom of Aris/Hippogriffia. Since it's essentially a war where Aris gets ganged up on by 3 powers all at once. Chiropterra and Colthage combined is a powerful force to fight against on land. But on sea you're typically secured because of your large navy. Until Beakolini joins in and all of a sudden the sea is threatened and if you don't pay attention there'll be a hundred Wingbardian naval invasions.

I'm surprised to say it but I'm always excited to see more of the MLP mod content

Staks mind is slowly becoming pony, with a side of cat

The way that mod says 'labour acquisition' is something else.

Equestria has a lot of different trees that are hidden like Carthage for example if a faction coups you you get and entire new tree I did a run of them and when through like 3 factions trees

I miss the good old days of the MLP craze.

Everytime I play Chiropterra I always fear going to war with the hippogriffs because they almost always curb stomp me. But stakuyi just be like "haha stinky hippogriffs :)" On that note I highly recommend playing the hippogriffs. They have multiple different paths you can go down, my favorite being the one that follows having sea pony dominance then searching the deep sea trench

These videos are the first time I've seen puns cause physical harm. Like the real world equivalent of Vicious Mockery 😂

A tip to help with manpower going to garrisons. A problem you seem to face all the time. Create a division with one infantry brigade and a mp support company to efficiently garrison territories. If you can afford to replace the infantry with armored cars do it for the suppression bonus. In base game it would be cavalry then armored cars. Hope this helps and I'm not sure if anyone said this before. Keep up the great content

This is the best mod series on the channel imo, partly because stakuyi is definitely having some sort of awakening from this mod.

With how often he has said pony power it has just become second nature to him.

I've never played HOI, or any other other paradox game apart from Stellaris. I've never been interested in MLP. I love your content. It's fun to watch, even when I have exactly zero idea what's going on

Cannot wait for him to break and watch the entirety of mlp g4 and make analysis videos on the series

Two of the biggest fan projects ever made by the MLP fandom are this mod, and Fallout: Equestria, a book-sized fanfiction of MLP with a nuclear apocalypse. Which, got 2 official sequels and hundreds of un-official ones. Now I'm not complaining cuz it's based as fuck, but why are so many things in the MLP fandom about political intrigue and extreme violence?

i would be perfectly happy with a channel dedicated to mlp hoi4

15:15 perfect shot's portrait seems to be a reference to ace combat 7's captain Matias Torres of the "Alicorn" which is a gigantic submarine that can launch planes, according to ace combat's lore he once sunk an enemy ship by using only two shells and firing them in the middle of a storm. Also, one of your advisors that you can have as chiropterra is called Velvet Remedy, she is a character from the fanfic fallout Equestria, she's such a pacifist that she once joined slavers as a medic instead of fighting and killing them, and according to fallout Equestria's lore she won't be born until 200 ish years after the megaspells drop (megaspells are basically a computer made out of gemstones magic and technology that enhances spells, like a healing spell, for example to make it affect a larger area and be powerful enough to revive an entire army, or create a black hole, or make a simple ignition spell that lights up candles burn entire cities)

My recommendations for future nations? Hippogriffia, they're a nation with very interesting branching paths, but a lot of it is determined by how well you did in the North Zebrican War. Barrad, they're a very interesting nation by EaW standards, and a lot of where you end up is determined by special events and decisions. So pay attention or you'll get lost, but while that happens enjoy the madness. And lastly Colthage, just like the previous two Colthage can change drastically from one path to another almost on a whim given how politically unstable it is at any time. And if you get too many civil wars, a certain prophet might appear with very interesting aspirations.

Ah yes, I love experimenting on thinking beings and raiding tribal villages for "Test subjects". Truly one of the most experiences of all time.

This needs to become a stable series on the channel.

I can see that he is getting better at deciphering pony puns :3 I hope he will start enjoying them soon tho /)

It's nice to see that you had so much fun with this, though I agree that maybe a break now would be nice. I still recommend checking out Hippogriffia if you decide to return.

Okay, this seriously makes me catch up on My Little Pony lore. Amazing work

Hey Stak if you aren't feeling well and need a break you can do so. We understand that everyone needs a break sometimes. Hope you feel better

15:11 "ONE MILLON LIVES!!!"

imagine the operatives sitting on all this information waiting for their general to give them the greenlight to eliminate the terrorists you had a problem only known to beuacrecy

This mod is so fun both to play and to watch, I'm excited to see the funny hoi4 man play more of it!

Listen. If you do this again, and please do, you've got to do River Republic. I get being the bad guys is fun for some, especially with ponies in the mix, but you've just got to give Harmonic River Republic a try. Your goal is to unite the Riverlands into a single entity and then, if you succeed at that, prepare to weather the storm that is the oncoming Griffonian Empire. It's not the look how dark the ponies can be thing you've been doing. But it's a real challenge I'd like to see you take on.

Seems you're loving this mod so far.... it's ok, welcome to the dark side of hoi4

Frickin' ponies with frickin' lasers on their heads. Those are called unicorns.

I now cannot wait for that update, the glory of the puns will consume.

Few things go better together than cartoon horses and slavery!

I am quite sure Equus is to be updated soon-ish so a time to play Stalliongrad may be there I also never got the pun in NightMARE Moon Not sure if it is even intended

Such lies The legion's of the Nightmare do not "enslave" creatures. We mainly "recruit" new "workers" to service the Nightmare.

Was Perfect Shot... Captain Mathias Torres? Lmao, I guess SALVATION is coming to Equestria.

There should be a coconut crab nation that supports agricultural uprisings, and liberates crab ranches across the map. Kinda like Polish Peasant Republic, but with a more international impact similar to support anarchist uprisings for the Global Defense Council in Spain. They would get insane consumer population buffs and high manpower (like crabs irl), but a super weak starting industry like the Great Depression debuffs since they are mainly agricultural. For an occupation law, they should get “Liberated Crabs” that is similar to liberated workers, except it gives a minor industrial buff but gives a ton of manpower from occupied states. Some great focuses could be: Crab Rave: +4% recruitable pop in core states Coconut Liberation Army: +20% attack against nations that use coconut crab farms Crustacean Conquest: +10% attack on coastal and marsh tiles The claws do!: add Global Liberation Effort decisions to start crab uprisings in neighboring nations. Sacrifice 200 infantry equipment on a 30 day cooldown to make uprising units stronger / better templates in neighboring nations. Spend 50 Political power in occupied or puppet nations to “Elevate Crab Status” that gains more compliance, and weakens resistance in occupied territory, and adds more pawn points (or whatever it’s called) toward annexation for puppets. This would simulate crabs taking over society in areas the Crab Liberation Army has taken. Really hope to see a crab nation added. For crustacea!

Let your little dictator play! She will run a mlp empire well!

It hurt watching him not do the special study options in the decision menu since they give great buffs also i do agree that you should play some other mods a give this a break but when you do return to mlp I recommend before you start the game set all ai focus trees to random that way it will be more interesting to play since allot of the cool stuff the AI is not doing unfortunately

2:18 Is there a Daymare? Daymare (ah-ah-ah) Fighter of the Nightmare (ah-ah-ah) Champion of the Sun (ah-ah-ah) You're a Master of Karate And friendship For Everyone

Chiropterra is actually based on the Enclave in the fallout franchise. You can see this if you look up a map of what cultures each country is based on in EaW (Equestria at War).

I have not played them before but I think to avoid that failure thing equestria has to go down the civil war path which usually happens when you select random for them if you select what path each nation goes down.

Pizza, pasta, put it in between a bun. Beakolini needs to have his day in the sun! Please play beakolini when you get a chance.

Well, that was a fun run, next thing that Stakuyi could do is to maybe play as longsword, I think gameplay wise it would be pretty fun for him, outside of that is the Hippogriffia which is a goat of a nation, all paths are in some way fun to do, and shame he won't discover a true beauty of post-defeat chiropterra.

Nightmare is the oldest pun in the book.

I just want to see a world domination of one of the evil empires, maybe as a part 2 bonus

Coconut crab ranching. 10/10

“Am i the vampire Portuguese”

Maybe try out Unification Wars mod as Achaemenids? They're the most finished path there if I recall right and canonical ally of the Emperor. Meaning that for hours you'd be stuck not only fixing your problems, but also saving his ass because AI can lose even with Custodes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Ponypower than Manpower. You have gone into the world of Friendship My friend

Ah yes, the B R I T I S H playthrough. The queen will return!

I think that after 3 time’s playing this mod makes Steven a bronie now.

Someone make him watch like the first season. Worst case he'll like it. Best case he'll hate it and his suffering will be exquisite.

Vampire Portuguese? ... OK what chapter did I missed in my History class??!?!?!?

inhumane is become in-hoof-mane, destroyer of sanity. why am i cursed with these puns

I noticed a great Gatsby reference im the town of Batsby.

All right! More Equestria at war baby! Keep 'em coming!

This is awesome. Need more. More horse Puns!

0:10 we accept your sacrifice Stakuyi

0:11 Oh no, your wrong. It has already started.

God I love all of these puns!!! ❤

Why the fck is this one of the most well made mods ive ever seen for this game

Does "nightmare" count as a pun as, etymologically, the "mare" part is literally supposed to be a horse, because a "night-mare" was originally a supernatural creature who brought bad dreams, pestilence, etc?

It's a shame Operation Moonshine failed for you, It would have been a treat to see how you handled the civil war.

I like how you say there isn't anything left to do, but my man you haven't event touched your ethically questionable experiments yet!

15:11 Ahoy me mateys, it be me, Captain Torres

Can I recomend that the next mlp one is using the optional setup to become the New California Republic.

Nightmare moon has dream powers and generally known for moving there moon among other op powers that show gave to alicorns lol Also like to vid I want to see him become a brony, corruption ark time

26:31 it’s the MLP of Prince Zulu I guess lol

Stallongrad is not super boring it's just be Russia with 1/4 the power in a box boring America and a few takes from Germany. As them I struggle to break out with out trying to invade Griffoina where the main faction loves to attack and Stallingrad base power is not strong enough to handle them. Hearing a rework is coming sounds nice because I think some +Factories in the mid game or more wargoals would make it easier to play..