Virtual airwar?

[Mr Greezy]

Hey guys. I was wondering if anyone wanted to help me organize a virtual frontlines campaign. Since there are no dedicated servers and all that, it would consist of scheduled matches with the results recorded.

Maybe it's too hard to do, but what I'm thinking is this...

Every Sunday there are matches being held for roughly 2 hours, on sim mode, hosted by any number of the "officers" of the virtual front. For one month, all those matches are in 1940, the next month, 1941, etc. And the maps played are selected with the attempt of being historically accurate. Matches rotating from Team Battle to Strike. Team A taking Allied aircraft and Team B taking Axis. In years where there were multiple fronts, we do one month in Sicily, the next in Russia, and so forth.

If someone were inclined, they could create details for a large map and assign in-game maps to regions in the large map, but it could be easier to just record stats and declare which side won each month, with an overall winner come the end of the "war".

The time chosen would be around 4 or 5 PM EST, that way we could incorporate West Coasters as well as players abroad reasonably well.

I'd be interested in spearheading this and being in charge, but I'd need help with scheduling and whatever else needs done. I'm also open to suggestions. I would stress, however, that keeping it on the simpler side would most likely be best.

When/if German cockpits become available we'll make sure we all use them. "Broken" planes don't have to be used in order to maintain realism (no one like flying something that doesn't work), but we won't have anything like La-7s flying over Dover.

Another idea is that when you sign up, you declare if you're Axis or Allies and you stay that way the whole time. It could create unbalanced games so that might not be feasible. Then again, rarely were the conflicts in real life evenly balanced.

So yeah. Virtual airwar, sim mode, every Sunday, reasonably historically accurate...anyone interested?