@Lippe-Detmold
 
Yeah. Vicky 2 is a little easier at handling reactionaries. But I did some HOI editing and modding of my own, way back. Lemme check my folder for some examples…
 
And, damnit, I don’t have the files on this comp. Just the music. I can’t believe I don’t have my HOI stuff here. Just Vicky. Hmm. Yeah, though, Autocrat fits best I think and gives you a CoS that is shuffled in a new junta’s cabinet.
 
I’ll add I was also a bit leery of the generic “royal guard” in the big Intelligence spot but as I thought about it, it seemed less troublesome. In canon Eq the ‘royal guard’ is the army, so we’d have military intelligence handling civil/domestic intelligence gathering, but in a broader Eq background the royal guard may be an ascended military intelligence unit that answers directly to the Princess or something…

@Ertinax
 
Yeah, I know. But the game doesn’t really distinguish between the types of right wing ideologies. So, extreme reactionary or fundamentalist views are still interpreted as NS-ideology.
 
Making him a paternal autocrat could be the right approach though, because then he could be a minister in both NS and SC cabinet. And that, in this setting would actually make sense.

@Lippe-Detmold
 
I noticed that!  
But, recall, there was historic and ideological opposition to National Socialism on the part of conservatives in Germany. If Blueblood is to be assumed to be, say, a dyed-in-the-wool Junker type, he would in fact be the sort of opponent that fought national socialism in support of a return to the monarchy and the proper Prussian State. Remember: monarchists opposed NatSoc all throughout the war, and were a major opposition block pre-war.
 
Blueblood = Nazi may work on the “you’re evil, so you’re nazi” principle, but given his status, it doesn’t quite work for those who look at it from a historic POV. I’d say Paternal Autocrat fits him (and most ‘Princes’) best, rather than a revolutionary movement like fascism.
 
Also, like I said, many pops in HOI are very ideologically pragmatic, especially between PA and fascist in SouthA and ITA.
 
JAP might be a better comparison for your “Nightmare Equestria” than GER, especially after 42.

@Ertinax  
Good thinking!
 
I’ve changed the alignment to social conservative, because when it was paternal autocrat PA and NS cabinets overlapped. This kind of collided with my idea of a storyline for totalitarian Equestria (BTW, I uploaded an overview for its cabinet last night).
 
I’ll add more ministers, especially chiefs of army/navy/airforce. BTW, I already made Blueblood a Nazi. :D

Celestia’s description in this is a stock description applied to a great many leaders of this “type.” And it seems accurate enough to me.
 
I’d say… needs more social conservative alignments, though. Typically the military is often the vanguard of the old guard, and much more entrenched than in the civilian sector. True in the game as well.
 
The setup sort of reminds me of a lot of South American countries, actually.
 
You shouldn’t have the same Chief of Army and Chief of Staff, though. There’s a good reason they’re almost always kept separate. Swap Blueblood in for Chief of Staff (prob Grand Strat type), I’d say, unless you want to go the “Prince Konoe” route, but you’ve got Cadance handling diplomacy.
 
The Navy is tricky, since we haven’t seen Equestria with one at all! That’s another possibility. Given they have no where to project power to, though, protection of trade may be the most likely battlefield theory (ie the ENG/UK minister table)

@Lippe-Detmold  
The reason of my question was to see your motives of your answers because you don’t seem to like Celestia. And now having found your motives, I terminate this discussion because neither you or I will come to agrement on said discussion.

@Background Pony  
A bit :3

@Background Pony  
*a

@Lippe-Detmold  
Are you Luna fan?

@Background Pony  
If it took her a thousand years of reigning to learn that, how long would it take her to learn how to interact with people like Stalin and Molotov?

@Lippe-Detmold  
I considred it as isolated occurance and something that Celestia has learned and will never be repeated again.

@Background Pony  
Well, she kind of gets owned in the royal wedding episode. Honestly: despite the fact that that Canterlot is threatened by some unknown danger (and everybody acknowledges that, hence the extra security measures), she blatantly ignores suspicions of one of the most competent figures in the area. Because wedding! If that’s not naive optimism, then I don’t know what is.

Celestia as naive and succumbing to wishful thinking. Yeah right, and I am Michael Schumacher.

@Lippe-Detmold  
Pfffttt.

competence + Luna LOL

Sorry, Darkest Hour –> master race.

*II  
(I want three damnit ;-;)

Oh yay HOI pony mo-  
>HoI3  
;-;