I am trying to develop a combat engine for Supremacy using Unity.

Yes, I've seens supremacy and am quite impressed with the work they've put in with their job so far, but unfortunantly as i said before (Or I think I did), I think that it's better off using an existing engine like unity over building one from scratch because it would save a substantial amount of time since most of the componants are there you just need to assemble them (I was going to use the analogy of having an orchestra and just need to write hte music, but that's just has hard, hehe). I deliberatly chose not to approach either project because I frankly dont like the game style they're making (That was the "carbon copy" reference in my first post), I want something that's more dynamic, futurisitic and takes advantage of the 13 years of Game development in TBS and 4X games since 1999.

Thanks to both of you.

I have downloaded some free script for lens flare.

I just downloaded Unity from their website to play around a bit. From a first look that I had, it seems quite powerful, but I'm not really sure (I'm not that bad in C#, but this is beyond my current knowledge) how it could be connected to the current Supremacy code. Seems very promising though as there's an incredible amount of tutorials, demo and other free material out there.

For now I will try to build a stand alone game to fly ship models around in. Using it in Supremacy is an issue for another day.