Be aware of the GW Intellectual Copywright Lawyers, incidentally.

btw just a hint, the position of people in the raceconfig file matters, i made a small scale starwars mod recently, and by replacing the Thalan with Sith, they had the same charactiristics (as in not expanding etc) but the Mandolorians, who were the Arceans expanded and waged war just as they should, don't know if you already knew that,good luck

All right, all right, emperor give me strength!!!

I work and i sweat and i guess really hard to come up with the basis of a mod and then a bunch of grannies shout "awww but in 40k this happens!" The game is not 40k! its a mod of galactic civs that lets you muck about building a space empire!

The plan behind the mod was (if anyone has recently read Horus Rising?) the Imperium going on the great crusade.

so when i get done sueing people this week for i am probably one of the most evil lawyers in the UK, thats right folk don't get compensation for getting cancer cause of my firm thats how evil we are, then i will re jig the mod (if it can even be called such) perhaps make two versions, a "Great crusade where you fight with maybe 3 races of orks, eldar, dark eldar and possibly a number of petty human empires!

then I'll do the whole 40k as it stans type thing (probably with two ork races).

Tyranids will have planets (you can think of them as hive fleet staging posts if you like)

There will the imperium as a race, not IG not individual space marine chapters cause that won't work on it's own. The best plan would be to play it as a custom race and use the custom race to be a space marine chapter ultimately allied to the imperium.

OR a crusading space marine army attack a sector? Sabbat worlds crusade anyone!

(draws deep if somewhat frustrated breath mutters underbreath about the lack of imagination and mental flexibility of the modern 40k enthusiast, curses the english education system and wishs he was back in holy glasgow)

So there we are as for copyrights? i direct you unto the eu competiton legislation andthe doctrine of exhustion of intellectual property rights which is shaky i'll give you but thats not nice litigation to get into!

Thanks for the Input

"Tyranids will have planets (you can think of them as hive fleet staging posts if you like)"

Sorry no nids during the great crusade. Nor do they have any planetary staging posts .

During the crusade there were no chapters.

Naturally you're totally free to do what you wish with your mod. But would be nice to follow the fluff if you're basing it on it.

Sav

"Although the blood seeping from my ears in frustration is making it hard to think i have a nagging suspicionb that there were legions, comprised of chapters comprised of companies as a chapter is an old legion formation."

Naw, at the end of the great crusade when all the primarchs had been found the legions were formed, one for each primarch. Chapters were created at the second founding with the writing of the Codex Astartes.

The Legions were not already organised for the primarchs. Sorian's Inductus Excelsus document the necessity of a far greater number of troops. each legion was created using the geneseed of each primarch, a new generation of SM were created, ones that could be combat ready in a single year. The process was accelerated with concequences. As each Primarch was found, his legion was created.

uploading to stardock now.

http://library.galciv2.com/index.aspx?m=367

upload complete, pending approval.

I would value suggestions for improvements etc. not saying i'll make them but its always nice to get slated on a message board.

It needs more work, but the basics are there.

what the next version needs

is rewritten tech tree

rewritten speech files

new minor races

probably a basic overhaul of the whole mod.

dunno will see,

oh and has eldar and dark eldar, i think? it did originally.

yeah new version uses the mod folder, but I thought "ah this will be quicker" and then it all spiralled out of controll cause i ended up tweaking a lot of files.

I'll do a new one and run it to see if i can get it to work in the "put in mod foler way"

The thing with renaming things is it will work for one race but not for another?

Like manufactorum for humainty probably dosen't fit in with eldar?

Feel free anyone to make changes and upgrades and such.

yah easite way to do imerpial side is to have infanrty, imperail guard, then u research space marines, then u research terminators, then u research tank units and or so forth and that is subgated into ur attack number for your troops so if u research imperal guard and then research space marines it add to your troop power then same goses for if u research like dread nuaghts so forth every time u research new unit type it just adds to ur over all troop power after all thats all galtic civlziation doses any ways.

i am sure that some where there is a code that says when ur one race you use tech tree.xml so forth

if thats case you would just creat new tech tree for each race.
so when u play one race it uses this tech tree when u play as anthere race you use anthere tech tree, i would guessed that its setup in the raceconfgifration file.xml and that it some how points to the techtree.xml file