"Opinions on Polemos WSS Rules" Topic

I welcome any opinions on these rules sets, I understand there are 2 versions depending on what scale armies you want. New to WSS and am considering Baccus' new WSS due out next week. Thanks!

It is years since we played the rules, but my recollection is that they were clunky and that units had a bizarre ability to regenerate. We found Might and Reason, with the WSS module, to be far better.

The rules were overhauled in the last year or so.

Polemos WSS 2nd edition is a complete restructuring and rewriting of the original set. They are more streamlined and incorporate two distinct sets allowing you to play two different sizes of game.

Any comments, good or bad, that reference the first edition have no real relevance to the current version.

Do the rules also cover the Great Northern War (cold steel Swedes vs. everybody else)?

No they don't. We have a distinctive ct set to cover the GNW which will be released shortly.

Although contemporary the two wars were very different in nature and as we wanted to do justice to both subjects we couldn't force them together into one set of rules.

The whole Polemos premise is that every war had a distinct set of circumstances that made it unique and trying to cover multiple conflicts in one set of rules will not allow those singular qualities to emerge.

The WSS was not like the GNW or the SYW or the wars in the Americas or the Jacobite rebellions. One set cannot work equally well for all of them.

Is the 2nd edition by the same author?

One of them. Chris Grace.

Interesting, Amazon has rules supposedly 2nd ed. But cover is different.