Really cool! I'd go with four counters. These troopers are weak… so the more the merrier! Cannon fodder, you say?

Maybe translate the vertical unit name on the counter to English too? Now it says 'Cyclistes' in French, or was that intentional?

As I'm going wild, there comes a big chunk: the non-permanent Franc-Gardes, also called Bénévoles (volunteers), or Bénés, as they were affectively nicknamed by the permanents Franc-Gardes.

By manner of speaking, and to help non-francophone’s understanding, we called them simply Miliciens (Militians), even if this title is not quite true.

These Miliciens had the Franc-Gardes status, but didn’t live in barracks.

They didn’t count in the number of members of Trentaines or Centaines, composed solely of permanent Franc-Gardes, who lived in barracks.

They then lived at home, with their families, but and might be called at any time to go into action.

Their training was therefore less regular than permanent Franc-Garde's training, and their military value was even worse.

We chose to create 2 large Recruitment options with common color stripes.

A Trentaine of Franc-Gardes may then call a group of Miliciens, in addition to its regular staff.

Here they are.

Monsieur Paul’s Militians section

Monsieur Paul

Mademoiselle Louison’s Militians section

Mademoiselle Louison

Leaded Militians Counter, brought into battle by a permanent Franc-Garde,

and the Militian counters

Citation de JanHoos Le [16/12/2018] à 13:11

Why did you chose to make the cowardice mostly symbolic?

Another option to make these troops worse than the more organised armys, might be to reduce the to hit bonus to +1?

You've got your answer, JanHoos. : )

And another large Recruitment Option:

The Recruitment Option Convoy

It consists of 2 heavy trucks Citroën type 45, spontaneously lent by french civilians.

It is a further signal, if ever it was needed of the massive french population’s support to the great National Revolution project led by the Maréchal.

A beautifuil military equipment in anticipation of the future arrests of bolchevik-influenced terrorists !

The Recruitment Option Convoy

And the Citroën type 45 counters

To be continued !

Perhaps the NCO should have the NCO ability to support an order token? Would also matter if you use the morale rules.

Citation de bartdevuyst Le [19/12/2018] à 13:35

What do you mean with 'Leaded' Militians?

Leaded means 'made of lead'. (le plomb) 🙂

Ok, "to lead" is an irregular. I mean to say "Militians with a leader".

Then I think it must be "Led Militians", isn't it?

Citation de Moomer Le [19/12/2018] à 20:26

The units with the NCO seem to have the very same stats as those without NCO. It is somewhat pointless to make different units if they turn out to be just the same as far as gameplay is concerned.

Actually, they're not the same. 🙂

Led Militians counter has the Character Trait "Bodyguard" while Militians have the Character Trait "Substitute".

Originally, we created only one kind of Militians counters which had both Bodyguard and Substitute, but we agreed with Clem that it was too much powerful.

That's why there are now two kinds of Militians counters, one with Bodyguard, and the two others with Substitute.

As we discussed with Gduprez on french forum, we chose to use the effects of Bodyguard and Substitute to simulate militian's clumsiness: Militians always stand where they shouldn't, and receive stray bullets in place of more experienced Franc-Gardes.

Ok, thank you.

Actually, we'll use the french word "Miliciens".

I was using what I believed to be the correct english translation just for a while.

Today, it’s the turn of the badass, the early soldiers of the Légion des Volontaires Français (LVF), survivors of the Eastern Front and now back to France.

Psychologically destroyed, violents and ideologically motivated, they massvely became instructors in French Militia, and attempted to transform this jumble into a coherent military set.

They oversaw the most deserving Franc-Gardes, furnishing them the best stuff that can be retrieved in french Army stocks and Allied weapon airdrops.

OR Instructor + Sharpshooter

1st Instructeur



Sharpshooters counter



OR Instructor + PIAT



2nd Instructeur



PIAT counter

The next Recruitment Option is the first unit with HQ color stripes we introduice.

It is a .30 cal found on an allied airdrop, and diverted by an instructor for himself.

OR Instructor + .30Cal



3rd Instructor



.30cal counter

Hy Loki,

Thank you!

Actually, the Groupes Mobiles de Réserve (GMR) are already on the box. Molpox has already started drawing some sketches. But we'll publish them after finishing our French Militia project.

Note that we plan to create a Vichy France Card Deck, and not a French Militia Card Deck.

Among all these cards, some will be common to all Vichy France’s factions, and some will be reserved either to French Militia, or to the i]Groupes Mobiles de Réserve, etc…

Today, 7 small Recruitment Options.

Recruitment Option «Grenade »

Recruitment Option «Ammo»

Recruitment Option «Molotov Cocktail»

Recruitment Option «Vétéran»

Nothing particularly new for these four OR.

Recruitment Option « Collabo Basterds »



It is of course the equivalent of the OR Nazi Basterds for French Militia.

May be "Collabo Scums" instead of "Collabo Basterds" ?

And 2 Recruitment Options which affect the Anti-Cards use :

Recruitment Option « Le Serment ».

This recruitment option allows to the French Militia player not to include the Perfidious Cards into his deck.

However, he must as usual include the Shady Recruitment Cards into his deck.

And the Recruitment Option « Beaujolais »

It allows to get 3 Beaujolais counters. Each of them allows to ignore once the effects of the Character Trait Cowards.

Very cool work, once again! Love that tiny little car! So we can fit two officers in there? Cosy!

HQ Tile is called Command Tile or High Command Tile in English. 😉