I loved it when it came out, a Canadian company here in Vancouver produced it way back when. It was on sale on the latest Steam sale for really cheap, I think 6$ and I grabbed it, and have been playing through campaign one. I forgot how well the cutscenes were done for 15+ years ago now - a truly great game, IIRC it won a pile of awards for "best game" from all the big gaming magazines of the day.
Once I finish HW2 campaign I'll try some mods out. I just hit the mission in HW1 where if you fly your cap ships into a certain spot you lose them all, and my save game film corrupted for some reason, so I have to start over a mission back or two and rebuild again as I am having trouble navigating sometimes, the 3d function doesn't work quite right in the mod, trying to click your course can be troublesome I've found, hence the flying of my destroyer formation into the nono zone and losing em all in the first place.