[geoff]

Seems to me the good guys are the side you allocate to the human player and the bad guys are the one you allocate to the computer (apart from your/my own personal/secret preference of course).

And I guess the decision on who you allocate to the human comes down to which side has the biggest challenge in the scenario you are creating. If you are recreating a historical scenario then the side with the challenge is up to the historian, but in that case the scenario you choose to create reflects your preference! (Of course, some historical scenarios are totally one sided and present no challenge for the victor and an impossible situation for the loser.)

I don't know much about the french / algerian conflict except that it was french "government" troops against the algerian insurgents. The french eventually pulled out, and there was a lot of ill-feeling, at least amongst the officers, against President de Gaulle for making the decision to pull out (the plot of Frederick Forsythe's book the Day of the Jackal was based on this ill feeling.)

A challenging scenario (and thus fun to play) would be one where a smaller side has a chance of winning against a larger side, and thus the human would get the smaller side. So in a french / algerian scenario, I would expect the french would have the smaller side, and would be the human player, and so by default the "good guys".

Of course, you could always create two campaigns - one to be played as the french, the other as the algerians!