This guide is aimed at people with no experience modding games, and is designed to get people started modding the game at the most basic level: Editing values in the game files.

This is the most basic step required to start creating new content.

For you to be able to use this guide, you will need "Notepad++", either google search or grab it from the following link before continueing.

Notepad++ Website: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

1. - Open up Notepad++
   
2. - Open Steam -> Library
   
3. - Right click on Warhammer 40,000 Gladius: Relics of War in the Steam Library and select "Properties"
   
   
4. - Left Click Tab "Local Files"
   
   
5. - Select "Browse Local Files" button from "Local Files" Tab. A new folder window should appear.
   
   
6. - OPTIONAL: Create a clean backup of the games files by selecting the Folder "Data" and creating a copy of it. Save the copy somewhere other than the game files. You can also simply make backups only of files you intend to change. Although backups are optional, they are highly recommended.
   
7. - Open the File Location in the Folder "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40000 Gladius - Relics of War\Data\World"
   
   
8. - Open the file "guardsman.xml" in Notepad++

If you followed these steps, you have now successfully accessed one of the game files and are ready to start making changes.

Recommendation: Do not change things you don't understand, make sure to be very careful to preserve the structure of the file or it may not work.

When you open the guardsman.xml file in Notepad++ you should see something like this:
Next you are going to want to start editing the values. But first you have to find the values.

1. Press Ctrl+F in Notepad++ to open up the "Find" dialogue window.
   
2. In the "Find" dialogue window there is a text box named "Find what:", type the string* "hitpointsMax"

You should see the following:

You can now change the health of the Guardsman unit to whatever you want it to be. I suggest setting it to 10, and seeing how that affects your game. Since this game uses a "Squad" system, all unit attributes tend to be multiplied by the size of the squad. Since Guardsmen come in squads of 8, setting the hitpointsMax string to 10 will mean Guardsmen squads in-game will have 80 total health.

Congratulations, you have now made your first mod and are ready to start making changes. Most of the things you can change are named after what they do. Health is named hitpointsMax, Movement speed is named movementMax. If you have a good understanding of the game, you can very easily start to make changes just by browsing the World/Data/... files and editing units, weapons, skills, buildings etc.

* A string is simply a name given to a number or piece of data. Instead of having to type 123456789+123456789 we can tell a computer that "BigNumb = 123456789" and do the same function by telling the computer to add BigNumb+BigNumb and it will calculate based on the value given, this allows us to manipulate numbers using language more similar to english than just typing numbers. Theres more to it, but thats a very simple explanation.

1. - Open up Notepad++
   
2. - Open Steam -> Library
   
3. - Right click on Warhammer 40,000 Gladius: Relics of War in the Steam Library and select "Properties"
   
4. - Left Click Tab "Local Files"
   
5. - Select "Browse Local Files" button from "Local Files" Tab. A new folder window should appear.
   
6. - OPTIONAL: Create a clean backup of the games files by selecting the Folder "Data" and creating a copy of it. Save the copy somewhere other than the game files. You can also simply make backups only of files you intend to change. Although backups are optional, they are highly recommended.
   
7. - Open the File Location in the Folder "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40000 Gladius - Relics of War\Data\World"
   
8. - Open the file "guardsman.xml" in Notepad++

If you followed these steps, you have now successfully accessed one of the game files and are ready to start making changes.

Recommendation: Do not change things you don't understand, make sure to be very careful to preserve the structure of the file or it may not work.

When you open the guardsman.xml file in Notepad++ you should see something like this:
Next you are going to want to start editing the values. But first you have to find the values.

1. Press Ctrl+F in Notepad++ to open up the "Find" dialogue window.
   
2. In the "Find" dialogue window there is a text box named "Find what:", type the string* "hitpointsMax"

You should see the following:

You can now change the health of the Guardsman unit to whatever you want it to be. I suggest setting it to 10, and seeing how that affects your game. Since this game uses a "Squad" system, all unit attributes tend to be multiplied by the size of the squad. Since Guardsmen come in squads of 8, setting the hitpointsMax string to 10 will mean Guardsmen squads in-game will have 80 total health.

Congratulations, you have now made your first mod and are ready to start making changes. Most of the things you can change are named after what they do. Health is named hitpointsMax, Movement speed is named movementMax. If you have a good understanding of the game, you can very easily start to make changes just by browsing the World/Data/... files and editing units, weapons, skills, buildings etc.

* A string is simply a name given to a number or piece of data. Instead of having to type 123456789+123456789 we can tell a computer that "BigNumb = 123456789" and do the same function by telling the computer to add BigNumb+BigNumb and it will calculate based on the value given, this allows us to manipulate numbers using language more similar to english than just typing numbers. Theres more to it, but thats a very simple explanation.

Questions that are asked frequently related to this guide will go here.