I had a similar idea I was working on to yours, Simone, although mine was mechs. It was going to be kind of a Battleship set up, where you cut the postcard in half and folded it up, so you each had a little cockpit dashboard set up, and was kind of a secret dice placement to allocate points to different systems.
I didn't come up with it until the last week of the jam and by then I didn't have time to mock anything up.
I like Bun Fight, Vijil! I am increasingly into the idea of command friction, and not being able to control your whole force at once.