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Comment by Kim Kanger on April 29, 2009 at 5:31am

I answered a guy elsewhere who was airing a certain tint of frustration regarding the delayment of Ici. I basically said that Ici now was ready to go, but also that the good thing about the delayment was that I now had the opportunity to clear out some bugs in the rules before it got printed. So I believe the game is better now than it was a few months ago.

The interaction between the parameters in the rules have been difficult to balance since, in practice, there are three games in it. But not three parallel games (like a land game and a naval game and so on), but three intergrated and highly interactive games.

This is not a game where there is a front of counters which basically move and fight. This is a game where the enemy is everywhere, where you are unsure of what policy to have, where you are not certain whether you should fight or not, where you struggle to get the population to support you and where you are convinced that you will lose.

Each person that I have played against has accused me of favouring the side that I'm playing. The funny thing is that I hear the same thing whether they play FLN or France...

This is not a game for everyone. I'm certain that I will hear many views from players later on (which I both dread and hope for). The rules are not complicated and I have gone to great lengths to clear out any ambiguities. But I promise you, the game will be a challenge and, if you like it, you will be able to spend hours contemplating strategies (I still do and I designed the damn thing!)