go see there
http://levdf.frenchboard.com/musee-d-aar-contemporain-f12/ici-c-est-la-belgique-the-algerian-waar-of-independence-1954-1962-t1597.htm
some friends are playing your game

Great! Is it a Belgian forum?

no a multicultural one we have canadian, french, suiss, belgian,...
we met on the paradox forum (publisher of the PC game europa-universalis) a long time ago (2001 for me) and migrated there when we had problem with the moderation
there are among us some players of hex&counter games like cat lord, SP, midomar,...
many of our games (le vol de l'aigle, seekrieg,...) where made there http://ludis-universalis.forumactif.fr/ not to polute too much the VDF
and there I'm surcouf, not fix

I am playing by CBB, we've reached Summer 1957, playing the French but I won't reveal my strategy on a wargame forum

There is a very nice review of Ici by Julien Bonnard in Battles magazine #3

I have seen it. Great !

With very beautiful screenshots of the game !

There is a "Questions and Answers" that you can download here: http://www.legionwargames.com/legion_ici_cest_la_france.html

This was written by Paul Aceto at Consimworld:

"I work with a guy whose wife is originally from Algeria. About a week ago, I had brought to work the copy of Battles magazine that had the very positive review of Ici, C'est la France. I was reading it at lunch, and said, "Hey Tony, your wife is from Algeria, right? Check this out - a game on the Algerian conflict." This guy is not a wargamer, and he was blown away that someone had made a game about it. He told me, "there isn't a day that goes by when she doesn't talk about the war." So he printed out the rules in French, showed them to his wife, and soon afterward bought the game. He says his wife told him she will only play the French, vowing, "this time we won't give in to the FLN!" I'll let you know how it goes if/when they do get a game in. I think I need to advise my friend to let his wife win for the good of his marriage."


A great story

Kim, any news on a Tonkin "legion" release date?

No date yet. There are a few other games in front of me in the queue. I still need some serious playtesting and I hope some of you guys will be willing to spend the time and effort to help me out. But I'm not there yet.

By the way, I will test the concept of making some French "double units" in order to keep the counter density down in the delta. There were many units there which never left the area, for example, many of the Vietnamese units (not Viet Minh). So I have put them together into 4-step units (like the VM regiments) and I will simply call them garrison units. We will see how this works.

My main effort is not to make a super realistic game but rather to make a well functioning game which is exciting and which will give the right "feeling".

In the gamebox, there are units in the pool 1954 for the French.

I do not understand it and wonder why they are not either on the map beginning of the game or in the other years' pool...
Thanks for your inputs on that.

V.