I've been thinking about a halo mod for awhile. my 2 cents...
Civilizations-
Humanity (or whatever you want to call it)
The covenant
Heretics (start at war with covenant)
Grunts (have the "grunt" strategic resource, covenant can conquer them and make grunts)
Brutes (work in same fashion as grunts)
Hunters (same fashion as grunts)
Jackals (same way as grunts)
Flood
Forerunners (units such as sentinals and large sentinals)
and maybe several made up ones to keep humanity busy before they contact the covenant.
Have planets- large circular land masses surrounded by sea (space), about 20 of them, each 1 about 1.5 screen lengths large (this is to allow for strategic ground combat). planets have mountains, planes, and other terrain but no water to simplify things. each tile on a planet is worth the same food, water, anfd commerce as all the others to simplify things.
two types of space tiles- near space and deep space (names can be changed) near space costs 1 movement point for quick movement, dep space costs more to make it more difficult to move through, which eliminates the need for large tracts of it between planets.
Earth starts out with earth fully colonized and outposts on a few other planets like Reach. Covenant starts out with three fully colonized planets and 1 Halo. this gives them an advantage to annex other civilizations and defeat the heretics. brutes, grunts, hunters and jackals and heretics start close covenant. Forerunners start out with a planet somewhere, as do all the other civilizations. Flood starts in a corner and doesnt get ships until mid-game to give earth and covenant a chance to get bearings.
Halos - there are 8 halos in space. they are immobile, and cannot be disbanded once captured. they each have some barbarian powerful unit guarding it, so earth and covenant cannot capture them until mid gAME (except for the 1 covenant starts with). Halos function as artillery pieces with a large range that fire 1 nuclear missle attack a turn. All planets are within range of atleast 1 halo but no more than two, except for earth, which is the only planet in range of none. They are powerful, and can control the game. They are positioned on a space tile that has the physics of a land 1 allowing units to attack it.
Wonders should include things like forerunners ship, which starts on high charity and powers it giving it a production bonus, the space defense iniative which earth builds and makes MAC gun battlegroups and MAC guns.
Fill in some blanks with the tech tree, which near the end has a tech called "the grand alliance"(the plot of halo 3). does stuff, allows earth to build Cortana MkII the most powerful unti in the game by far (seen the Halo 3 debut trailer?) stuff like that. Grand alliance also erases the locked war between covenant and earth (im pretty sure thats possible to do, im working on it)
halo mod
