RE: Carrier design in FT

	I disagree - from the standpoint of my campaign style, st least.
 An Ace 
group is only such because the Ace & the rest of the group have been 
working together long enough to get a 'feel' for how each other operate.

 They fly and fight as a unit.	I figure that a Turkey group is so 
bad/inept, that anyone transferred out of the group will drag down the 
quality of the recipient of the Turkey.  Both of these is based amily on

the assumption that fighters fly & fight, as above, as a unit, not a
bunch 
of 'Mavericks' running around by themselves, shooting things.  I also 
assume that Ace is more of a leadership capability, besides the piloting

skills.  The transition between group types (improving a Reg/Turkey mix
to 
Regular, and a Reg/Ace to Ace) is hadnled on a strategic scale.

Noah V. Doyle

-----Original Message-----
From:	Tony Francis [SMTP:TONY@simis.co.uk]
Sent:	Monday, July 13, 1998 06:10 AM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	RE: Carrier design in FT

> And you could recombine fighters from any group into
> any group to save time in getting groups back out the doors - but you 
lose
> Ace status if you split them up, and keep Turkey status.

Surely not - an 'Ace' group is such because it contains a single
'Ace' pilot, _not_ because the whole group is above average. So even
if you split / combine groups this super pilot has to go somewhere
and will make the new group he's attached to an 'Ace' group.

Tony Francis