A legal question for you, HPS guys

[Volcano Man]

Yes, going off of what Rick said, plenty of "mods" have been made that add new nationalities to the game. Just look at the Chinese Expansion for K85 as an example, or many of the ME67 mods for that matter. There is simply no reason to alter the .exe for this, just pick one of the existing nationalities that align with the same side you want them on, and one that is not used in another mod or in the stock game (to be nice).

The problem I see is that you are modifying the .exe for something that (as Rick says) will never be seen, and who is going to update their .exe file in the game? I sure wouldn't. For one thing, you would have to re edit it after each and every update, because once an update is applied then it would break your mod. Now, if you intend that the .exe file and other needed files be copied to its own directory to be something stand alone then yes, there is no doubt a legal issue with that (reverse engineering). Nothing would probably be done about it since it is a free mod, but you never know. I guess it is a matter of "why go through all that trouble" through. One idea might also be to propose it through official channels as an official game idea... who knows what would come from it. Otherwise, I just say use an existing nationality and save all the headaches. :)