Star Wars: A New Mod

Star Wars: A New Mod

1. Introduction

This is where all Star Wars: A New Mod discussion will take place from now on. Everything from unit ideas, to graphics. Of course, individual threads for previews will continue, as most unit designers or graphics producers do not just produce their work only for one mod.

2. Civilizations

There are six planed civilizations for Star Wars: A New Mod. They are listed below, sorted by mod category.

The Galactic Civil War
Rebel Alliance
Leader: Mon Mothma
Bonuses: Militaristic, Seafaring
Flavor: Rebelion
Allignment: Jedi
Fav. Government: Democracy
Shun. Government: Facism
Architecture: Republican Architecture

Galactic Empire
Leader: Darth Vader
Bonuses: Militaristic, Seafaring
Flavor: Imperial
Allignment: Sith
Fav. Government: Facism
Shun. Government: Democracy
Architecture: Imperial Architecture

The Clone Wars
Confederacy
Leader: Count Dooki
Bonuses: Militaristic, Expansionist
Flavor: Imperial
Allignment: Sith
Fav. Government: Facism
Shun. Government: Republic
Architecture: Imperial Architecture

Galactic Republic
Leader: Chancellor Palpatine
Bonuses: Expansionist, Commercial
Flavor: Imperial
Allignment: Jedi
Fav. Government: Republic
Shun. Government: Facism
Architecture: Republican Architecture

The Phantom Menace
Trade Federation
Leader: Nute Gunray
Bonuses: Industrious, Commercial
Flavor: Imperial
Allignment: Sith
Fav. Government: Martial-Law
Shun. Government: Monarchy
Architecture: Imperial Architecture

Royal Naboo
Leader: Queen Amidala
Bonuses: Industrious, Scientific
Flavor: Nubian
Allignment: Jedi
Fav. Government: Monarchy
Shun. Government: Martial-Law
Architecture: Nubian Architecture

3. Units

So far, these are the units that have been made. They have been sorted by Civilization.

Rebel Alliance
R2 Droid
X-Wing
Nebulan B Frigate
A-Wing
Y-Wing
Laser Turret
Z-95 Headhunter
E-Wing
Yoda
Skyhopper
YT-1300
YT-2400
Jedi Padawan
Jedi Knight
Jedi Master
Rebel Trooper
Protocol Droid
Laser Turret
Corellian Corvette
Admiral Ackbar

Galactic Empire
MSE-6 Droid
TIE Interceptor
TIE Defender
AT-PT
Speeder Bike
AT-ST
Imperial Probe Droid
Dark Trooper
Imperial Lander
Sith Knight
Tie Bomber
Tie Fighter
Stormtrooper
AT-AT
General Veers
Darth Vader
Sith Master
Heavy Stormtrooper
Death Star
Lambda Shuttle
Star Destroyer
R2 Droid
Protocol Droid
Bounty Hunter
Laser Turret

Confederacy
Destroyer Droid
Battle Droid
Geonosian Fighter
Super Battledroid
Federation Transport
Hailfire Droid
Droid Control Ship
Separatist Transport
R2 Droid
Protocol Droid
Bounty Hunter
STAP
Sith Knight
Sith Master
Droid Fighter
Tank Droid
Homing Spider Droid

Galactic Republic
AT-TE
Clone Trooper
ARC Trooper
Republic Transport
SPHA-T
Republic Attack Ship
R2 Droid
Protocol Droid
Bounty Hunter
Jedi Padawan
Jedi Knight
Jedi Master
AT-XT
Speederbike Clone
Laser Turret
Jedi Starfighter
Republic Gunship

Trade Federation
Droid Fighter
Destroyer Droid
Battle Droid
Droid Control Ship
STAP
R2 Droid
Protocol Droid
Bounty Hunter
Sith Knight
Sith Master
Federation Transport
Armored Assault Tank (AAT)

Royal Naboo
Naboo Fighter
Mounted Naboo Guard
Naboo Grenadier
R2 Droid
Protocol Droid
Bounty Hunter
Jedi Padawan
Jedi Knight
Jedi Master

Misc.
Sandcrawler
Cloud Car
Slaver Ship
Ewok Warrior
Gungan Trooper
Kaduu Cavalry
Wookie Warrior
Jawa
Jawa Droid
Tusken Raider
Squib Priest
Desert Skiff
Slave 1
Mara Jade

4. The Poll

The poll runing alongside this thread is to find out whether or not the general attitude of you guys is for us to quit or continue. There is, of course, no point in doing this just for our own benefit. This mod is for everyone. So what do you think?

5. The Rest

The rest has yet to be produced. Any ideas or contributions you can make will be appreciated. Although there are only four or five of us who are technically on the team, any work and ideas from anyone is appreciated and asked for.

As I have looked forward to a Star Wars mod, I would advocate concentrating on one era of the universe - that of the Imperial versus Rebellion.

Concentrating thus should allow quicker conclusion!

Hi again as I thought I had recalled similar projects some time in the works...

1.
http://www.cdgroup.org/forums/tbs/civ3/index.php?h=1&pf=121

2.
http://www.strategyplanet.com/civilization/starwars/index.htm

Keep it up, Pleb. By the way, I suggest you make the "barbarian" type unit be tusken raider for the eariler stage, and "banatha" with tusken raider riding it for "advance barbarian". Dunno about the transport, as the sandpeople have no ships, unless you use a skiff.

10Seven:

Thanks for that first link. I had no idea Isak was working on a Star Wars Mod as well. Well, to cut a long story short, tpasmall originally started this mod, as your second link will confirm. When he...vanished...a few of us took it upon ourselves to continue the work. jobiwan7 took charge, and the rest of us continued our efforts. Since then, we've accomplished much work.

Rirse:

Cheers Rirse! Barbarians have been replaced by Pirate Cartels in the mod. This means that the basic and advanced Barbarians will be unrelated units (such as maybe a Jawa and a Smuggler), and the Space unit for the Pirates will be a YT-1300 probably, or perhaps a different ship.

As for the Pirate Sea unit, I'd go for a Z-95 Headhunter. They were common fighters often used by pirates.

True, but that's not a sea unit.

I might make a suggestion for an extra 2 Civs, from the Expanded Universe: the Yuuzhan Vong and the Chiss

I understand Yuuzhan Vong ships would be hard to make, and if I had a way to get the programs on my comp, I'd try my hand at them

The Chiss, as far as I know, simply use Imperial units, the only exception I can think of throughout the EU being the clawcraft.

The Empire and Rebel Alliance can stay as they are (unless you guys would like to have the Imperial Remnant and New Republic, my game has the Vong, GFFA, and Empire sharing Coruscant's different names as capitals: Yuuzhan'tar, Coruscant, Imperial Center, respectively)

I've already added the Vong and Chiss to my game, and have city lists for both that I can modify.

Most of the Vong cities are either planets they've taken in the NJO war, or Vong names, and I have all their gods as GLs

The Chiss, I simply used little-known (to most) planets, or planets that are far from the Core for them, plus I simply bunched them with the Ssi-Ruuvi, Yevetha, and Falleen (the first two are major in the EU and I couldn't let them be ignored)

I also have a New Republic/Galactic Alliance city list that I can modify for you guys and I do not believe it would be really hard to find enough planets for a Remnant one, all up to you. I could also help out with Civilopedia entries and info for the Civs and any extra units for them if you would like

As for units:

New Republic: B-wing, snowspeeder, Bothan Assault Cruiser, Mon Calamari Star Cruiser, Rebel (Gallofree) Transport, Lando's Lady Luck, YVH droid

Imperial: Executor-class Star Destroyer, Eclipse-class Star Destroyer, Victory-class Star Destroyer, TID/D(droid) fighter, Sun Crusher, Scimitar Assault Bomber, AT-MT

Chiss: See Imperial, Clawcraft, Virago, Ssi-Ruuvi picket ship, Ssi-Ruuvi battlecruiser, Ssi-Ruuvi command ship, Yevethan thrustship

Yuuzhan Vong: Coralskipper, tsik vai, etc etc, I can find these

Other: Hapan Battle Dragon, Hapan Nova-class Battlecruiser, Star Home, Darksabre, Combat Cloud Car, Marauder Corvette, My'til fighter

Most of these can be found in the Guide to Vehicles and Vessels or the New Guide to V&V

Yeah, looks good! Not sure about the Chiss, but Y-V definatly.

I think the Chiss would be almost essential, since other than the Vong, they're the only alien race in the EU that actually has anything behind it, plus Grand Admiral Thrawn was one

True...and the Confederacy already uses numerous Trade Federation units...

Looking at the units listed above, the Armored Assault Tank (AAT) which I made isn't included. I just had to point that out.

Right now I think we should just be focused on getting a completed mod out and then adding the Yuuzhan Vong and the Chiss later. Plus we would need to make units for both of those civs. Also I'm not into EU so I don't know much about either of those civs.

EDIT: I also think that maybe we should combine the Gungan units with the Royal Naboo, to give them more units. After all they do share the same planet.

Okay, good ideas. I've added the AAT, sorry about that. As for your EU idea, that was the plan anyway. These three installments listed above will be the first ones we do. After that...there could be a civ4 by then!

Some of the units in Daftpanzers spacewar:evolution mod look like they are yuzzhan vong units. Chiss units could just have their skin pallete changed but the Chiss ascendancy didnt use imperial weapons. The only chiss that used conventional imperial weaponry was Thrawn. The clawcraft was just a modified Tie Fighter.

Possible Vong Leaders:
Yun Yuzzhan
Yun Shuno
Yun Txlin
Yun Q'aah
Yun Harla
Yo Gand
Tsavong Lah
Yun-Ne'Shel

Other than Yuzzhantar you could use the names of all the vong domains as citys. That would give you alot.

Domain Lah
Domain Anor
Domain Carr
Domain Iinan
Domain Sot
Domain Choka
Domain Aruh
Domain Brolo
Domain Dar
Domain Rapuung
Domain Das
Domain Qiqah
Domain Heng
Domain Kwaad
Domain Yim
Domain Val
Domain Umi
Domain Lian
Domain Qel
Domain Mat
Domain Molou
Domain Phaath
Domain Naap
Domain Yabu
Domain Yaght
Domain Zqar
Domain Da'Gara
Domain Harrar
Domain Gand
Domain Vaecta

Hmmm I could try to come up with units for the Civil War scenario (including the EU continuation, after all, it didn't end until Vision of the Future) and descriptions for them.

The reason I said the Chiss use standard Imperial weapons, is that outside the clawcraft, no other Chiss technology has been included in the EU, after all the Chiss were only in the Thrawn Trilogy, the Hand of Thrawn Duology, Survivor's Quest, Force Heretic II: Refugee, and various Jag Fel NJO appearances, so coming up with totally original units for the Chiss would be quite difficult

I like the idea to use domain names for Vong cities, I simply use Vong character names to have a bit of variety. Oh, and don't forget Yun-Yammka, even if they did make him up

Yes, any help you can give is appreciated.

Just lemme know what you need descriptions and such for and I'll do what I can

Here is all the information I could find about chiss units. All but the clawcraft are completely chiss.

Chiss Ascendancy Space Units:

Commander's Glider-this was the name given to the hyperdrive-equipped shuttle that was carried aboard every Chiss warship, as a diplomatic ship assigned to the senior-ranking officer aboard the warship

Firepoint(Possible Defensive Unit)
this was the term used by the Chiss to describe any remote military installation located to that it could protect another installation. Firepoints were often housed in asteroids or other natural bodies. Inside the asteroid was a self-contained military base, complete with fighters or weapons emplacements. If an enemy ship tried to reach a hidden Chiss location, they would have to pass by one or more of these firepoints, and would be destroyed or disabled long before it reached its target. The Chiss lined the outer edges of The Redoubt with firepoints, to protect the refuge they had hidden within the cluster

Nssis-class Clawcraft
this was the form of starfighter developed by the Chiss in the early years of the peace accord between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic. Named for their appearance, clawcraft were constructed from the cockpit and engines of a standard TIE Fighter. Instead of solar panels for wings, the clawcraft had four curved, arm-like projections sprouting from the sides of the cockpit, each tipped with a modified L-s7.2 TIE Fighter laser cannon. Measuring just over 7.5 meters in length, the clawcraft also had limited hyperspace capabilities, lacking a true navigational computer in favor of realspace anchor points near each Chiss-inhabited planet. It could attain speeds near 1,000 kilometers per hour in atmosphere.

Paskla-class Vessel
this was a form of Chiss starship. It resembled a slightly flattened sphere in shape, and the interior of the ship was filled with small chambers for the transport of various goods.

Chiss Acendancy Land Units:

Phanlanx
this was the based form of military unit which made up the Chiss armed forces. Each of the twenty-eight Chiss colony worlds was required to send a complete Phalanx to Csilla, where they were integrated into the Army and Navy controlled by the Nuruodo family

Household Phalanx
this was the name of the group of loyal Chiss retainers who guard a Chiss noble. The formation of a Household Phalanx mirrored that of the twenty-eight Chiss phalanxes which made up the Chiss military.

^^^Was all that in Survivor's Quest?

Outside of their use for books (hehe) I don't remember much else but the clawcraft:-x

I also came up with some possible wonders:

The Citadel (Shimmra's residence)
-Forbidden Palace maybe

the Bilbringi Shipyards
-dunno, maybe barracks

the Hand of Thrawn
-modern Great Library (please someone make this so I can add it:-*)

Mount Tantiss
-Science boost

Maw Installation
-Science boost

Transitory Mists (Hapes)
-Great Wall defensive attribute

Sernpidal Shipwomb
-See Bilbringi Shipyards

Jedi Praxeum
-For Vanilla Civ, perhaps a Military Academy deal, for C3C, pumps out a Jedi Knight every so often

Galactic Library (Obroa-skai)
-Theory of Evolution deal, perhaps random GL effect

Centerpoint
-GW deal perhaps

Karrde's Myrkr HQ
-ToE deal perhaps, since he was high on info

Nice work people. Because there seems to be a divide on what to do next, I am going to suggest this. Two teams - one work on Galactic Civil War, one work on Exapanded Universe. Good or bad idea?