Gentlemen, please.
@cbff33 - we realize the orbat tool is not a polished piece of software however it does work most of the time. Occasionally we run into issues but overall people have been able to create lots of custom factions.
The tutorials are out of date because no one has offered to update them. ALiVE is in maintenance mode now and the core devs have moved on to other things. I am happy to update the wiki with new information however unless someone provides me with that info....
I am not an expert in creating custom factions... perhaps @AUTigerGrad can provide some input?