Making ship templates for a custom race

I want to make template ships to use in a custom race, including the ones for medium, large, and huge hulls.

Is there an easier way to gain access to the bigger hulls besides starting a new game and playing it until you research the appropriate techs normally? I tried using the cheat to instantly research a tech, but it seems that the cheats haven't been included in the expansion beta yet. (I have tested the cheats out sucessfully in the regular GalCiv2)

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If you play the 'battle of the gods' scenario, you begin the game with all techs researched.

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Yes, I'm aware that the 'battle of the gods' scenario gives you all techs, but as far as I can tell, scenarios are another thing that hasn't been included in the DA beta yet.

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I was just playing around in the custom ship templates and the only way I can see to use them at this point is to play a game with the style you want designed. Design them all in game, then assign your saved designs to a custom race. Seems this feature would really benefit from an external ship designer. Not external from the game, but accessible without being in game.

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