Probably have to do changes one-by-one so pinpointing issues becomes easier. Believe I could simply emulate the Nuke Tank for the civvy [maybe?] Currently having Visceroid issues but have some ideas to deal with them.

you can give each unit a different weapon but you can also change the weapon itself like the damaged projectile warhead sound effect, not 100% sure if it works in the remaster so giving something a different weapon works fine to be sure to make backups if you messed up and just play around with it and see if it works to your liking

Good evening, I have my map somewhat completed and an idea of the changes I want to make but I'm not sure if the Rules editing has to follow a certain layout as my previous attempt almost messed the map up* .

*May simply have come down to trying to give one of the civilians a Nuke pistol and not setting it up correctly

I do apologise for coming to you repeatedly but considering you've made a bunch of content I figured you'd be a great source of information.

you know the rules.ini file right you can copy something like E1 rifle infantry and put them in the .Map file and change something like health armor weapon ect and it will affect the in that map

After some trial-and-error it seems you may need to have the buildings visible - which is disappointing - I'll keep looking but atm this seems to be the case.

Apologies for spamming, tried setting up Gunboat patrols and on 1st test they were casually 'sailing' over the ground lol - back to the drawing board there.

I'm a big fan of the Red Alert Map 'The Hills Have Eyes' which brings me to my final question [for now...], is there a way to make the civilians - and their dwellings - super strong etc?

you can't make an island with the Temperate tileset sadly with the desert one you can make islands

Neutral AI can't build any units at all but you can create teams for units on the map to do the task

and for power plants outside of the play area don't know never tried to do it myself