Has anyone developed house rules for the Polemos FPW rules? Very much interested in hearing about them if you have.

I am a solo gamer in the far north of the Netherlands, so needed a way of sorting out the bidding process. I use two D5s rolled against each other to determine how many points have been bid by the winner and loser. If a draw just roll again until one side or the other wins the bid, and the dice scores are used as the value of those bids.

Thank you for responding Dour! I like that suggestion and I'll use it now, modified with an additional plus or minus on tactical circumstances. Thank you. I saw your earlier query on the 1866 supplement. I 've played this a bit and have been puzzled by the Austrian +2 for combat, which suggests they were successful in attacking the Prussians. It seems the Austrian tactical doctrine called immediate column attack, which never reached the Prussian lines because they were decimated by needle gun fire. My suggestion would be to model this by giving Austrian infantry a free attack (no TP), dropping the +2 for Austrians and give the Prussians a +1 or even +2 for combat. 

An interesting way of tackling two radically different tactical doctrines. Suppose the Austrians do get in though, as happened at Trautenau. I think the +2 is there if a skilful Austrian commander is up against a less than adequate Prussian commander. The Austrians were also successful in Italy, and again for the same reason.

Hello Dour! I'm concerned with the Austrian tactics and their ramifications, and leave aside the Italians for now as I haven't fought with them yet. Trautenau was a victory but the Prussians were ultimately trying to drive the Austrians from 3 hilltops and were led by their ablest commander, Gablenz. Even so, they suffered almost 4X the casualties of the Prussians, reflecting the other battles in the war. I think that, clearly, Austrian weaponry and tactics let to huge imbalances in casualties. How best to model this? My thoughts are to make it easy for the Austrians to attack and give the Prussians the advantage in combat and certainly in ranged attack. Before the war some Prussian commanders were afraid they would run out of cartridges facing the Austrian column attacks. Instead they first ran out of targets because of Austrian tactical doctrine and inferior rifles. Any ideas on modeling this? Do you agree?