Quote Originally Posted by Sir Robin
I seriously hope that the first patch will include tools that make modding M2TW easier. Beyond this I seriously hope that CA or one of the community's more skilled members, like V, will make it possible to modify and add new units.

Honestly, though many months away, community mods are probably our best bet along with another patch or two from CA.
Well considering they are including an unpacker for the files I would say yes...