I won't be able to help with mod'ing but I'll play the hell out of your mod... I'm hoping its the best mod yet!
plummer5000
Seems that someone already foresaw this issue and created a map which he calls a campaign, you can download it here on this web site: [link="https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=90&libid=70"]WWW Link[/link] So the whole debate is over now... someone mod'ed a campaign.
This seems to be a trend in the PC gaming industry for quite sometime to release a game and then patch the hell out of later after getting all of the community feedback. This almost gives way to a "2nd Beta" version which is actually the real release... then 6 months down the road at patch 1.0xx the game is playable. I have often skipped buying a PC game until the expansion comes out because of this. This game I didn't, but I did noticed it was released last week and they already patched the