Monglor

That doesn't actually affect the difficulty of the task at all. Save metadata file has the body and voice options - so that you can just open with your chosen text editor and swap them, it's the easiest thing. Won't it have an effect on the gamestate, there are some gender specific romance options for example.

Have been thinking about this and is there maybe some way to trigger the original character creation menu to run again?

The idea that you could just breeze through multiple attacks with multiple Skyrangers seems off to me. If I have three Skyrangers and can thus confront three attacks, that demands a hell of a lot of troops. Eighteen just to fill the ships. There will be losses, short term through injury, not to mention three times more deaths. A greater number of rookies will have to go into service, much more high end equipment will need to be built, instead of having a single very powerful team you'll have to spread resources much, much thinner. I think it would make the business of putting a combat effective team into the field much harder than it is now. It would also make SHIV units actually useful.

Not tried these out yet but have read these work too: Ken Levine Joe Kelly Otto Zander

There's a group of hidden super soldiers you can dig up. Sure there's a list of them somewhere.

I think this would be a very good change to make. The original game was harder in some respects but you were able to go into missions mob-handed. Sure maybe I'd lose ten guys on my first terror mission, but the job would get done anyway. In the new game you're in a world of trouble after just a couple of losses, particularly in the early game. From a mod perspective I suppose the thing to do would be to go over the maps and just add a bunch of new spawns. Maybe a dozen or so, just in case people wanted to go that high with the numbers.