Really?

In my current game as the Crystal Empire I'm currently getting steamrolled.

Changeling Hegemony have better equipment, better commanders, and 2.5:1 division advantage, and still has 250k manpower in the bank.

Equestria's borders just caved in a month, and via that way they're attacking into Evergreen in that dog bend bit given Equestria started the conflict with only 27 divisions and is already down to 22. And admittedly I could probably have squeezed out three extra full strength 20 width divisions of leg infantry, but all in all my army is up there...it's pretty challenging and fun.

Eng., Mot Rec, Spt. AT, Field Hospital, Mage

7 x Infantry, 2 x artillery Love Divisions.

I haven't played HoI in awhile, so I was just playing on regular as well.

Here's a screenshot of the war effort so far ...

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/profiles/76561198026754118/screenshots/

I managed to get my way to assail Volistad, but I doubt I'll be able to hold it once taken. Basically my strategy is to try to lengthen their front in comparison to my own and see if I can take a little heat off my picket of divisions protecting my turf.

All the times I've played even buffing the changeling to have a extra 1.5 million manpower at the start with AI buffs they get steamrolled after awhile because they bum rush against a defensive line over and over until they run out of stuff. Plus the infrastructure is pretty crap everywhere which means they take a lot of equipment loses

Also if you're going off of "historical" the changelings are suppose to be the winners if you go off the while pax crap update. I've never seen them win unless I play as them and I don't know why they have a ton of updates for them for post war stuff when by that point it's pretty much over anyways.

foxador they are actually supposed to lose. equs gets focuses that build up their armies like the USSR did irl. The pax update is just to add post war content for players who won the war.

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foxador they are actually supposed to lose. equs gets focuses that build up their armies like the USSR did irl. The pax update is just to add post war content for players who won the war.

I'm sorry, but how are you saying that the changelings are suppose to lose when the mod it's self says that they won? And all the updates have been all for the changelings post war, there is nothing for eqs post war. Once you win it's just over. Yet if you win as the changelings there's a ton to do because of all the updates that focus on just them.

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foxador they are actually supposed to lose. equs gets focuses that build up their armies like the USSR did irl. The pax update is just to add post war content for players who won the war.

I'm sorry, but how are you saying that the changelings are suppose to lose when the mod it's self says that they won? And all the updates have been all for the changelings post war, there is nothing for eqs post war. Once you win it's just over. Yet if you win as the changelings there's a ton to do because of all the updates that focus on just them.

Historically Changelings lose, Equestria gets special A.I. buffs to make that happen. Post war Changelings content has nothing to do with it.

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I'm sorry, but how are you saying that the changelings are suppose to lose when the mod it's self says that they won? And all the updates have been all for the changelings post war, there is nothing for eqs post war. Once you win it's just over. Yet if you win as the changelings there's a ton to do because of all the updates that focus on just them.

Historically Changelings lose, Equestria gets special A.I. buffs to make that happen. Post war Changelings content has nothing to do with it.

Again what makes you say that? The mod it's self says they won and it has for a very long time. How can a person assume that they lost historically when I come into the mod with it on the front page saying they won for the last year?

Alternate reality game. Ya know, so it's not boring to do another run ?

Maybe take off Historical ai
For me The changelings have taken over all of Equus by 1013

If you change the AI settings to make Stalliongrad not ally with Equestria during the Great War, it reduces the ponies' chances of winning significantly. Remember, Equestria gets a lot of help just from allies. Take those away and the odds become less one-sided. It's also good to remove Equestria's AI bonuses.

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Historically Changelings lose, Equestria gets special A.I. buffs to make that happen. Post war Changelings content has nothing to do with it.

Again what makes you say that? The mod it's self says they won and it has for a very long time. How can a person assume that they lost historically when I come into the mod with it on the front page saying they won for the last year?

Under game rules there is a setting that allows you to disable the AI buffs Equestria gets that makes them win the war. Meaning that Equestria is supposed to start losing for the first part of the war but then they are given hidden buffs that give them the advantage to start pushing them back. I don't know what you read and I am not going to say you're wrong but Equestria gets this buff for a reason. If you want to see them lose just disable the buff in the game rule setting and Equestria will have a much harder time in the war.

Historically, the changelings are supposed to lose. I've played on historical many times and every time that I'm not playing a country in Equus or a country that intervenes in The Great War, The United Pony Alliance always wins, so I'm assuming it is intentional. Outside of historical, however, I've seen the same thing most of the time. The only exceptions are if Sinister is elected and declares war when Equestria while they fighting the Changelings or if the civil war has just recently or has not yet fully concluded.

Playing as Changelings though, it is rather tough to beat Equestria. I haven't been able to do it until near-late game (on Historical at least). That said, if you still know what you're doing and you know how to optimize population and industry using the political decisions, you'll still win pretty much every time, even with Stalliongrad on Equestria's side. I didn't even need to form any protectorates for AI assistance. Just make sure to defend the ports. I've also managed to defeat both resistances as well since they're pretty much no match for a large, post-Great War army.

And to address Pax Chrysalis, it merely is an expansion for late-game changelings. Originally, after The Great War, there really wasn't much left to do other than to conquer the rest of Equus (and possibly the world) through manual justifications. And to be honest, even with the Pax Chrysalis content, there still really isn't much unless you're willing to switch to Manehatten.
All that said, whether it is canon or not is really up for you to decide. The notion of "canon is what you make of it" is probably the best way to look at alt-history/TC mods, even if there is a "historical" route the AIs take.

Took me two tries to win as changelings since for me the focus tree was complex at first, first try i conquered olenia then got fked over by the nova griffon since i was too slow in the focus tree and havent take the bears, second try i took the bears then Equestria and Olenia fked me then lol, the third one i had finally learned how to play the hegemony, steamrolled the bears and screwed over the weak olenia then by miracle the stalliongrad which basically puppeted every country in NE Equus decalred war on Equestria then ofc Equestria lose on a 2 front war. Changelings seems kinda weak early game and they will probably always lose against Equestria unless they got into a 2 front war with a somewhat capable army

To beat changelings spam out medium tanks and planes
build 3-4 armies of 20w infantry to hold the line while pushing and encircling the equestrians with your 20 or 40w mediums

Wait what? Literally every time I've played as a country other then Equestria they (Equestria) lose, and lose hard. Meanwhile Every time I play as Equestria I win (yes even after beating King Sombra, and Stalliongrad). And the 1 time I played the Changlings... 40k losses to 1.3 million (I won). Not claiming to be good (I'm not) but how are people having trouble, true to canon the Equestrian army sucks? Also I don't think that this is suppose to have a canon, this takes place in an AU of the show; otherwise historically Thorax should be the leader of the Changlings sense this takes place after season 9.

This takes place after season 7 and not 9 but yes it is still changed a bit from canon lore so it would be more enjoyable rather than having a peaceful changelings