Possible plans for the future news - Battlestar Galactica: War of the Colonies mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption

Hi there guys,

So as you've seen an upload is up and so far I've not had any comments about game crashing bugs (aside from the Cylon GC for ep 3 and 4) which is music to my ears.

I have some plans on what might come next which I thought I might share with you.

20 ship strong fighter squadrons! As you might have noticed, I've changed the size of fighter squadrons. This means that it is easier for me to establish the air wing of a ship and also means that there are fewer units to manage on the screen and fewer icons cluttering up everything. I've also reduced the size of the ships to better fit the scale compared to the warships.

Custom armour classes. This means that certain projectiles are more effective against certain types of ship. Viper/Raider fire now has little effect on capital ships, nukes are more effective against the older battlestars but less effective against the newer, better armoured ones. This means that even combined fire from several squadrons will have little effect on a capital ship. If you want to take down a Battlestar/Basestar then you will need to use Bombers or other Capital ships.

New Cylon space station. The Cylons now use a model based on a Jovan space station (which fits their aesthetic much better) this station has more hardpoints as well. I may be changing or uparming the Colonial station to counter this depending on how I feel. The Colonials already have the advantage of stronger Golan stations though...

Changes to the GC. I plan to limit the use of first war units in the GC, at least at the start. My thinking is that the Colonies had a fleet of mostly new vessels which will then be supplemented by older ships returned to service as losses are taken. Therefore the GC's will start with your fleets being composed of new ships like the Odin and Arvak rather than Jupiters and Talos's. I will also limit the larger ships. There was only a handful of Jupiter class ships in the colonial fleet and the Mercury is a ship reserved for flag officers so it would also be only available in small numbers. So in GC you would only be able to built three Jupiters, one Mars and the Mercury would only be available as hero units such as Pegasus and Atlantia.

Tech upgrade.

I'm considering adding an upgrade that I would call wartime footing, this would unlock new versions of all ships which would carry a larger Viper wing (eg Valkyrie with 4 rather than 3 squadrons) to represent the ships being brought up from peacetime manning to full capacity. It would also unlock first war units like the Talos and Asgard to represent these ships being restored to service after sitting mothballed in anchorage.

Thanks for reading!