That does sound fun, but I still think a mode enabling the commander to choose where to attack, and giving him options to move in heavier equipped armies or moving a ship over to provide bombardment support, would be neat. Of course you guys know just a tad more about modding then me...:lol:

Cripes, that's a lot of work.  Even though the BF2 main menus are done in Flash, you'd have to have a hell of a backend and a lot of map variants to come up with something even close to that.  The only approximation you'd get of your idea might be something like Battlefront 2's Galactic Conquest mode, which was BS.

you start on a main map. say a ground battle(mainmap) for example. (not going into map details)

once the battle is over.. if the empire has won then the map moves to another map(again no details)
if rebels win then the map goes in the other direction

lets call imp win = imp1 reb win = reb1

                                                                     imp1<map>reb1 rebels win conquest
                                                    imp1<main map>reb1
                                         imp1<map>    reb1   
IMP wins conquest      imp1<map>reb1

this gives a flow of about 3 hours gamplay and 4 maps into a (our codename)"galatic conquest"

and the maps can go back and forth due to the team that wins could be a constant loop.. once conquest is won it goes to the next conquest map with that style(another planet)

this is a big thing that we plan.. and alot of work. the code has been worked on but not tested.. thats about all the info i am guna say now...

in other words im guna shut up!

You could have a galaxy map on the loading screen showing the progress along the campaign path while the map loads.

Ah good idea, but I'm not sure BF2 could handle that.  But then again, maybe our coding gods can make a miracle.

This would definetly require some extra coding, but most of what it envolves has been proven workable (Shattered Faith's campaign setup). Basically it entails letting a team's commander choose where he wants the next battle to be. Lets say for instance that last battle the rebels won after defending hoth. The winning team gets to attack a planet now, of course only one that is adjacent. The way the galactic map would be carried out would for it to be a 'map'. Basically after every battle, the server automatically loads this 'map'. However on this map there is no battle, no spawn pionts nothing. No one spawns. The entire map (the actual game enviroment) is the galactic map. It has the planets (each represents a different map) and other cool looking things, including visible hyper space lanes so the commander knows what planets can be attacked. The commander whoose turn it is to attack simply clicks on the planet, and that ends the galactic map 'map' and loads the one the commander clicked on. This would bring in some heavy strategy, especially if some other dressings of RTSes are added, like being able to build defences on a planet, bringing 'fleets' in to allow ground bombardment, you get it.
Just picture it as an FPS version of Empire at War. Of course you'll also have to add some new tools to make sure the troops like they're commander (hoping you'd do that any way tho).
Basically once the galactic conquest mode is ironed out, you guys could keep building on it, with new and innovative content.