I will always, ALWAYS, mock Bronies, but I have nothing but respect for the EaW devs. They make consistent updates, almost always release teasers on Tuesdays and also put out Dev Diary stuff like
this that provides good overviews of what's going on. There are professional dev teams that can't do stuff like this. I will happily admit that I play the pony mod at this point, it's the best one that gets released.
I like a bit of VN with my game these days, I'm sitting at 4000 hours in HOI4 so its nice to have something to go along with it. The problem with a lot of mods, especially TNO, is that they have made the VN the main point, rather than the warfare. It's nice to accomplish stuff to unlock more of the story, which is something that OWB and EaW are good at.