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Today, I did a little research into the capture flag. After examining all the codes in relation to it that I could, I found a way to add a flag for new factions! Don't believe me?
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Ta-da! I am almost sure no one else has done this...

Want to know how to do it for your mod?
EXPLANATION: It is actually really simple. While browsing through captureflag.ini, I saw this:
              

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Behavior = AIUpdateInterface ModuleTag_03         AILuaEventsList        = CaptureFlagFunctions     End

Well, I had seen this a million times before, so I didn't think anything of it the first ka-jillion times I saw it. However, that was because I had no clue what on earth the LUA did. After seeing 2Play's and TDP's orcs, and hearing how they did it, I thought maybe I should check it out. Well, in scripts.lua, I saw this code:
              

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function OnCaptureFlagGenericEvent(self,data)     local str = ObjectCapturingObjectPlayerSide(self)     if str == nil then         str = ObjectPlayerSide(self)     end     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ISENGARD", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MORDOR", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_WILD", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MEN", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ELVES", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_DWARVES", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ANGMAR", true)     if str == "Isengard" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ISENGARD", false)     elseif str == "Mordor" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MORDOR", false)     elseif str == "Men" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MEN", false)     elseif str == "Dwarves" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_DWARVES", false)     elseif str == "Elves" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ELVES", false)     elseif str == "Wild" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_WILD", false)     elseif str == "Angmar" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ANGMAR", false)     else         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_NEUTRAL", false)     end end

This looked very interesting, so I couldn't help but extract the Capture flags W3Ds and open em up in RenX. Here is what I saw: The Flag Pole, and the "Neutral Flag", then all the Flags. I Imported the SKL file, and saw how the bones were arranged. Thats when it hit me that I could make one for Rohan. I quickly made Rohan a flag, stuck a texture onto it, and bound. (When I bound I just bound all the flags to one of the bones; I didn't want to sit there all night binding them to their individual bones. No Negative effects have turned up because of this.). I added it into my .BIG, and made an asset. Then, I edited my LUA to look like this:
              

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function OnCaptureFlagGenericEvent(self,data)     local str = ObjectCapturingObjectPlayerSide(self)     if str == nil then         str = ObjectPlayerSide(self)     end     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ISENGARD", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MORDOR", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_WILD", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MEN", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ELVES", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_DWARVES", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ANGMAR", true)     ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ROHAN", true)     if str == "Isengard" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ISENGARD", false)     elseif str == "Mordor" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MORDOR", false)     elseif str == "Men" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_MEN", false)     elseif str == "Dwarves" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_DWARVES", false)     elseif str == "Elves" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ELVES", false)     elseif str == "Wild" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_WILD", false)     elseif str == "Rohan" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ROHAN", false)     elseif str == "Angmar" then         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_ANGMAR", false)     else         ObjectHideSubObjectPermanently( self, "FLAG_NEUTRAL", false)     end end

Put it in-game, and tested. Viola! A capture flag for a new faction!