This is a an old and well-populated forum for Men Of War ( and other games from the same company ):
http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewforum.php?f=11
I advise you to look through the different categories, and check the code from other mods. There are around 100 finished mods there.
You will see a lot of active users there, so any of your questions will be answered to - quickly.