I like the outfits the princesses are wearing. And their swords.

@artisticMink  
They may be from before nightmare moon also she dose seam to have a better head for tactics arguing to go up her self wen the crystal empire returned instead of just a minuscule group of CIVILIANS. Yes the main 6 are good but that should have been a job for the army and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say she would take at least some troops.

@artisticMink  
They may be from before nightmare moon also she dose seam to have a better head for tactics arguing to go up her self wen the crystal empire returned instead of just a minuscule group of CIVILIANS. Yes the main 6 are good but that should have been a job for the army and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say she would take at least some troops.

I first saw this on a Warcraft 3 mod before I was even a brony. Even then I thought it was awesome

Badass.

Dang, that’s pretty cool.

Epic

imerial march plays  
Dun Dun Dun dundun dun, dun dundun, DaDaDa Da! da! dadun dun da dun~

Uh, i wish so much there would be a story related to this ~

lunas been back for two years and already has combat and service ribbons. how many countries does equestria fuck over

awesome picture!

…and a happy new year.

BP, consider that your ‘one’.
 
Merry late christmas and don’t be a dick.  
Ho ho ho.

All ponies in the show are samefaced.

Background Ponies  
How nice of you to give a good grade despite calling the artist a “lazy faggot.”
 
We do not need your kind here, sir. Good day!

most weird thing about human Luna on JJ art?  
on colored pictures she is almost flat  
on requests/black and white pictures she have visible breasts (maybe not gigantic but she have them and she isn’t FLAT)

Plus, the samefaced people takes away the taste.  
??/10

Lord Griffin: Personal firearms were around for a couple of centuries before plate armor like Shining’s came about. Plate armor was a highly effective defense against firearms for almost five hundred years. It was rifling (around for ~300 years already) becoming common in the 19th century to allow for more powerful and faster firing personal firearms, coupled with the high cost of making full plate armor that lead to it slowly phasing out by around the 19th to 20th centuries. On the extreme end of phasing it out, the French wore plate armor (covered in cloth making it much harder to spot in photos or paintings) through the opening months of World War I (the massive change in tactics caused it to be phased out as not nearly worth the effort).
 
Pike & Shot was a military formation that used both spears and muskets then rifles, dominating warfare at least from the 17th century into the 18th century, the pike eventually phased out by the bayonet combining the pike with the rifle, but tactics stayed very similar up until WWI.
 
As for the airships, well, dragoons were mounted infantry that rode into battle carrying lances and guns–pistols or carbines. Dragoons were active in Europe starting in the 18th century up through WWI, a logical extension of the Reiter that dominated from the 13th to 17th centuries with similar tactics. The use of dragoons were curtailed by the machinegun and trench warfare, but still means they were around long enough for zeppelins to reach their peak during WWI.
 
So, there’s two perfectly reasonable explanations for this awesome painting; The first is that Equestria is gearing up for its WWI where a new invention like the machinegun is about to put a violent end to centuries of tradition and its evolution (armor, dragoons, pike & shot, etc).
 
The other is that this is a parade, and the armor, pikes, etc. are for show. To this day plate armored dragoons are still used in parades in Europe. Similarly Royal Guards still parade in armor with pikes (the Swiss Guard, for example).
 
So yeah, it’s an awesome pic and not really anachronistic at all. If history had twisted a bit differently, the real world could’ve looked a lot like this.

That looks cool.  
But why do the guards remind me of Clonetroopers? Must be the T-Visor on the helmets…

I think Cadance would be slightly shorter given her size compared to luna in the show.

Celestia brings the wrath.  
Luna brings the fear.  
Cadance…
 
Cadance makes you like it.

Am I the only one hearing the Kill Bill soundtrack in their head right now?

this game