Free play galactic conquest mode
Take a piece from star wars empire at war. The original battle front 2 had the 501st story line. It was a nice touch, buying bonuses advantages and different classes. Maybe its time for a more free play game.
First off have solidiers lifes mean something. Give them more value... Losing ships and solidiers should be a painful experience. What i mean by this is... Take away limitless battles. Meaning everything is carried over from battle to battle.. If your enemy just lost an armada. Make them regroup a while. Have there forces weakened.
What this means is.... Lets say you start as a sargent at genosis. You command a small 40 man support ship. Your ship primarily is a landing craft, resupply ship, you have no jedi commander. You take roles in battles. But also can bail on them. You loot enemies, trade with pirates, planets, hutts. Who ever you want.
You play as a clone republic officer trained by an instructor on Kamino who was shot for breaking rules and imparting corrupting ideas. As a result your officer, for fear of contamination mentally is asigned a small ship and small crew. Something along the lines of a tartan cruiser.
The galaxy is at war, you have several groups, Republic, Cis, Hutts, crinsom dawn, pirates, neutral planets. Each system has military and many have several bases. You will take supplies you looted and sell them. You will also adapt your ship and improve it. Also in time get more ships
You will set up a small base. Either on ground, space station or a fleet. Either openly or in secret. You will hit small outposts on your own. You will get astromech droids to improve and maintain your ship.
As the officer of the ship you will recieve orders and tasks. The better you do this, the faster your rank rises. You will have emperor orders and jedi orders... You can choose to be more emperor or jedi aligned in the republic.
Lets say your emperor aligned. You will get a posting as a patrol in the Naboo or Kamino sector. If jedi aligned patrolling Kashyyyk or Moncalamari.
You basically are a tech hunter... At the start of the clone war. It was throwing things together in secret. As the war progressed it went from big bulky lasers to machine guns. You will aquire better tech... An example Mandalorian tech for your troops. Corillian ship parts to upgrade your ships. Going sector to sector finding upgrades...
The game would be free play mode, you assist your side. However after a battle, you need to repair and fix up. Get reinforcements and parts and hyper fuel. You pick your destination. As an example, enroute to a fleet rally point... Might have ran into a small Cis frigate... You call in you fought the ship and destroyed it... So when you sell the frigate back to the Cis that you really invaded with marines. In exchange for credits... You can do these things... Just dont want to get caught.
Star wars is about the ships, planets and tech. This mode lets you play with all the toys. Selling and using captured ships. The nice part is the way this is set up. You can play as rebels or empire in the galactic civil war. Or be a pirate or crinsom dawn, or owner of a planet. In the end... Limitless possibilities.
Now imagine the possibilities you could be the perfect soldier, the worst soldier, however in the end both can be fleet Admirals.
Battlefront deals with major battles on large scales. Having small battles where its 20 on 40 at a small outpost. Where you have 10 minutes to win, grab what you can and run. Or a Cis patrol will be on you with 500 droids cutting down your army. Now the outcome of this battle... Totaly insignificant to the war. However might get a Cis commander to ransom, some credits and weapons laying around you take with you. Maybe steal a landing craft. What you get out of this... A reason to not follow orders, and generate more money to further upgrade your ship and troops.
Have things really die and really blow up... If your ship blows up. All your troopers die... Well games up... You lost... When your ship is gone.. Its gone.. All the supplies and tech is gone... When you lose a land battle and all your troops die there... You lose everything they went with. Your ships are fine.. But you get green recruits. No advanced skills or tech... It isnt good...
You can recruit non clones. However that opens you up to spys and traitors.
Superships would be possible, as an example you may get told you can buy and make your own cruiser. But cant issue one due to heavy fleet losses.
Upgrading a ship is limitless, you.can research it yourself or buy it already made. In time will have a research building or ship. You give them tech to backwards engineer, or current tech to fine tune and upgrade. They than can build things for you.
The clones obviously are from Kamino. When you prove yourself in battle, you keep getting granted more troops when they are avaliable. You may not get clones to replace loses every month. In time will make a medical ship to repair clones.. Also in time to breed more clones. You can breed wookies, ewoks, gungans.. Anything you want, however will get pushed into being a rebel at the end of the clone wars... And safe to say will have an empire fleet chasing you.
A planet can have many bases, so if you plan on taking Kashyyyk... You might need to win 30 battles to take the planet. Its a long drawn out war.
In time you may be granted special orders. An example to loot any enemy ship. Meaning you can go hunting enemy ships without end. Most likely being a blockade breaker. With that in mind. Your going to focus on ships, marine tech and fighters tech... With zero concern for ground combat.
In the grand scheme of things.. Wether clones or Cis kill jedis.. Same outcome... The emperor remains in charge. If you are of no consequence.. The Cis can win the war... The empire would just be more robotic. As opposed to a story about how jedis tried killing him... He just says im the emperor... The robots say i am...