Online Contest Idea: Build Your Own Ace

Match Day 1 and each odd pairing: MN (UK, Commonwealth, France) vs. Brigs (TBA), Squint (USSR, USA, China) vs. SWO (TBA)
Match Day 2 and each even pairing: Squint vs. Brigs, MN vs. SWO

You build your flight taking into account the pilot quality. So if you have 3 33-pt poor planes and then you have two pilots who get promoted then you can choose to make them average. If they flew the same 33-point planes they’d be 37 each, 74 total, so you have 26 to spend on another poor pilot.

I hope that helps. Each build is 100 points.

Either one. But if you have a pilot eligible for promotion and decide not to, you can’t do it later. Just make a new pilot instead.

It could go
Game 1 Mike Modano (poor), Mike Gartner (poor), Curt Giles (poor)
All 3 get promoted. Curt Giles is shot down but lives.

Game 2 Mike Modano (average), Curt Giles (average), Jon Casey (poor)
Mike Modano gets promoted. Curt Giles is shot down and dies.

Game 3 Mike Modano (veteran), Mike Gartner (average), Jon Casey (poor)
Jon Casey gets promoted. Mike Modano is shot down and dies.

Game 4 Mike Gartner (average), Jon Casey (average), Neal Broten (poor)
All 3 get promoted.

Game 5 Mike Gartner (veteran), Neal Broten (average), Shawn Chambers (poor)
Saving veteran Jon Casey for later. Mike Gartner gets promoted. Neal Broten is shot down and dies, Shawn Chambers is shot down and lives.

Game 6 Mike Gartner (ace), Jon Casey (veteran)
Mike Gartner gets shot down and lives. Jon Casey gets 5th kill and becomes an ace.

We can leave the cards as they are then. I do want to do the additional SAs though as I originally had posted. Panic for rookies and the two difficult moves per turn for aces.

These are the Ace SAs in this bunch.

D. 520 Ace + 40 Expert Yo-Yo
Spitfire Mk I Ace + 46 Expert Flier
B239 Brewster Ace + 37 Superior Turning
Bf 109E Ace + 48 Expert Flier
C. 202 Folgore Ace + 45 Skilled Flier, Expert Dogfighter
A6M2 Zero Ace + 42 Superior Turning, Accurate Fire

What do you guys think?

Does going between two planes of the exact same type count as a "plane change", requiring a pilot downgrade? Examples:

Bf109E Ace (the plane, not the pilot) to or from the Bf109E Wingman or Bf 109E Escort
Ms. 406 Veteran (again the plane, not the pilot) to or from Ms. 406 Rookie

I don't want to make this overly complicated, just trying to make sure I've got the rules straight.

The plane model what counts, not the card. You guys can do theater or nation to split them up. Your pilots can fly any of your aircraft and can’t fly any of SWO’s aircraft.