40K fan, but no good with modding. Perfectly happy to help idea-wise, though. I would recommend Blood Angel Space Marines, but any chapter would work, headed by either the current leader or the Primarch, Imperial Guard lead by one of the commisars, probably (Yarrick, I think, is the best known), Tau (ships Air Caste, diplomacy water caste, planet side earth caste, soldiers fire caste, leader an ethereal, makes sense, yes?), Chaos (could do one for each of the gods, or just Undivided), Orcs of course, just pick a powerful Warboss (Ghazkull maybe), Necrons (lead by one of the C'tan). Tyranids might work, (I don't know much about them), and what about Dark and Craftworld Eldar? Eldrad Ulthran may be dead now, but he'd still work as a leader. Dark Eldar is easy, I can't recall the name of their nominal leader, but it's probably on the site. Post to this thread if you have any other questions or anything, I'd be very interested in a 40K mod.

(wryly) And those of us poor souls who can't mod?

I like the idea. Eg. WH40k dawn of war is a very good game and the universe seems very interesting. I haven't played the actual Warhammer though.

Well imperail guard and the space marines along with few otheres, should be the same race becuase they are same race.

so sperating chapters of diffrent imperal guard and diffrent, space marines be kinda silly same thing goses with chaos and orks.

necrons also have diffrent sets and armys based on which god is leading them.

elder and dark elder have diffrent groups also elder and the dark elder dont really take over planets elder actully far as i have read dont even have a planet.

there more or less radiers and dark elder are pretty much same thing but as pirates. but dark elder do have home planet elder where pretty much wipped out by chaos.

necrons are kinda of same way. I would think to start with making necrons elder and dark elder as speacil events or random enconters be best till mod off ground id probly also thro tyrinds and orks into that random mess stuff till like i said mod gets off ground id concestrat mostly on imperal army with its diffrent units and tehcnology then chaos. along with the minor races and building of hte univres based on maps out of the codexs and main rule box.

once u have that acomplished ud have majority of game done all ud half to do is then work on the othere races.

best to work little and then get bigger instead of trying to paint the whole picture at one time.

I'm glad you're separating Space Marines and Imp Guard, as they are separate races. Space Marines serve the Imperium, but they aren't really human anymore (all those genetic mods). Another thing, if you do work with Eldar/Dark Eldar, then some fascimile of the Web would probably be needed. Maybe mod the anomalies that send ships across the galaxy, and use those as the Webway gates. Daemon Hunters and Witch Hunters should be part of one of the Imperial forces (possibly make a tech line for them, and have Daemon Hunter or Witch Hunter components to ships which would provide some sort of bonus). If you wanted random events, nothing better than warp-storms. As a strategist, the idea of trying to plan around warp-storms fills me with dread, but they would be a nice touch. And perhaps setting something like the Eye of Terror, permanent warp-storm, up to make transit more interesting.

I dont agree with you, even if there are no rules for space battles, there certainly are ships in W40K.Every race has a posssibility to somehow travel through the space (it would be boring if they just stay on one place) and in the W40K stories, universe have a very significant role. In overall look,ultimate goal of most of the races (except Tau which would probably like to live in peace in their corner of galaxy but they cant due to circumstances) is to conquer a universe and control most of the planets under their flag so they will rule the galaxy. Even if each race have a different reason for it (eldars ages ago achieved this, they contoled huge part of galaxy and they were technologicaly so advanced that the were almost invulnerable so they just enjoyed a pleasures of life, which become almost fatal to this race, or Space Marines who also conquered huge part of galaxy before Horus heresy) and they want their power back. This goals are quite similar to the GC2 goals I think

oh, I dint know that, my mistake, Im gone study and gather some information about Battlefleet Gothic (i knew just "ground" warhammer, epic, and space hulk).. thanks for info

best bet, probably to start here

http://uk.games-workshop.com/

looking forward to getting me a battlebarge

Hey, back off a bit. Once he saw what battlefleet gothic was, he apologised, and asked for info about it, since he didn't know anything about it. Cut him some slack.

Battlefleet Gothic is Warhammer 40,000. Warhammer 40,000 is Battlefleet Gothic. Just like Epic is 40k, and 40k is Epic. Yes, they are different games, but, they are all from the same universe, which is Warhammer 40,000. Campaigns can be played with Gothic and 40k combined. Just like this GC2, you have to have a fleet to move your troops to the planets to conquer them, in 40k you need the Gothic ships to move your land troops to the planets to try and conquer it.

Yeah, probably not. You volunteering maddy?

have started working on a bit of a mod.

Got 19 pages of star names (and RSI for my trouble)

Got about 8 major race pics and icons

rewirting the race configure file in the hope that it will all come right in the end.

it might at least be a good base for other people to work from.