Missing medium hull in shipyard (Human), where is it?

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There is a medium hull that is used for the Battle (Hammer|Axe) class human ships which is not available in the shipyard. The hull is actually just a small hull with two pieces of jewelery...but is classified as a medium in GC2 when you mod a Battle (Hammer|Axe), but is only a small if you try to build it.

I would very much like to have that hull available to build new ships on, not just upgrade others. Is this a bug/feature/omission and is there a workaround/fix?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Many of the game's "core" ship designs utilize the fact that a ship is not required to actually display the components it uses--the 'looks' and the 'works' of the ship are defined in two separate files. So the Battle Hammer does indeed actually use a small hull as its model, while being treated as if it has a medium hull in the game.

The only way to use it as another size would be to mod the game or manually change the ship files after creating a ship. Modding is the easy route, as it's already been done--see my hull mod on the library, which lets you use any model as any size and even combine multiple hull models into one, or use none at all and just build ships out of the 'extra' pieces.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks Kryo, that's what I figured. I've downloaded and will install your mod as soon as I finish this game. Thanks for the reply.
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