Hello everyone.
A friend and I decided to begin working on reviving Chapter Master way back in August 2020. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to post about it here and only posted about it on the 40k subreddit.
We're making slow but steady progress, as we've only worked on it in our spare time and had to put it on two long hiatuses due to life stuff.
I had originally intended to follow the old Chapter Master's design document to the letter, but I realized that so much more could be done with the idea so I decided to change and expand upon it.
The roleplaying aspect of the game will be expanded upon greatly, making things like managing your Captains and balancing their loyalties, purging undesirable aspects of culture within your battle-companies and encouraging desirable ones, rivalries between characters, event chains and personal quests, etc. Much of this was inspired by the way characters work in Crusader Kings.
Battles will, unfortunately, have to be reduced in scale, as there will be a visual element to them this time around. Having literally thousands of individuals onscreen at once is a little difficult to achieve, and so instead, battles will be reduced to Dawn of War I-scale battles. Instead of thousands of individuals, you are limited to a couple hundred at most. For now, at least. If we find a way to increase it without destroying performance, we will. They will also be objective-focused, both to simulate the way Space Marines are used in lore (breaching actions, spearheading charges, sabotaging the enemy, etc.) and the fact that killing a few thousand of an enemy won't be enough to stop a planetary invasion.
Planetary campaigns, sector-wide events, and even the ability to play as other races among many other features are planned, to be implemented in the long run.
All of the work thus far has been put into making basic game features such as random sector generation work. There is still a lot of work to be done before we can get to gameplay.
It's ambitious, which is why any and all help is greatly appreciated, be it assistance with programming or the creation of art assets.
Here's the link to our Github repository:
https://github.com/ChapterMasterRestoration/Chapter-Master-Restoration