Fighters of the Wall of Steel style are often called Wastes (using the first two letters of Wall and the first three letters of Steel). It is a cute abbreviation,but they are one of the stronger styles in the game. Along with lungers, they have the most starting skills of any style. But similar to lungers, they have a high endurance burn. Most commonly they are run as either defensive warriors or hybrid warriors. However, the most recent Champion TC was fast enough that in many fights came out as an offensive warrior. A flexible style, that typically does very well on the sands.
My first recruit came as 12-8-15-9-16-3-7. After adding the obvious points (2 to wit, 5 to will, and 4 to deftness), I have 3 points left. It is recommended to add these to Str, Con, or Wit. Because my WOS is big, strength isn't going to help as much as the other two stats. So, I chose to split the points and have a 12-9-15-13-21-3-11 WOS. A WOS that most managers would be pleased with, though just short of tourney quality.
The other recruit with sexy numbers came back 12-5-9-11-13-10-10. Most managers will quickly add points to get a very solid 17-17-x-11 warrior. Many managers love these types and more than a few have seen success in tourneys. With the low con, he'd make a better offensive (especially adding the remaining points to strength - the type of warrior that most managers WILL add to their tourney roster), but Assur is running a WOS themed team and so the last 3 points are added to make another hybrid WOS, 12-8-9-17-17-10-11 WOS.
Next up comes another big guy, 16-5-15-10-12-4-8. Traditional warrior design will give another offensive (17-5-15-15-17-4-11), but this offensive is really slow and while sometimes will succeed, other times will fail. Assur also says if you can't get to 17 wit, consider stopping at 11 (or 13 if you are a lunger to have access to the LO). Using this approach, we add the rest of the points to con and have another very similar design to the first two: 17-9-15-11-17-4-11 WOS.
Problem child #1 arrived as 19-5-10-6-10-10-10. Low con suggests offensive but low wit suggests otherwise. I've already decided to make 5 WOS's, so hybrid it is. We're definitely adding to physicals on this guy and 11 deftness is highly recommended always. There are three designs I like for this guy. #1: 21-10-10-7-15-10-11 - hits skill breakpoints and adds a lot to physicals. #2: 20-8-10-10-16 -10-10 A nice burner that gets 11 wit/17 will in addition to the other breakpoints. #3:20-11-10-6-16-10-11. This is a burner that maximizes hit points at the expense of wit. Definitely not a long term design, but 7 wit gives the BA well suited and I feel the hit points will give this guy more wins than the advantages of the other designs. (I chose design #3).
Problem child #2 came with one of the worst combinations available, 5-12-14-9-10-15-5. There are worse combinations of two 5s, but this is not a good one. This is the type of warrior that most managers would be better off sending to the Dark Arena. Certainly if you're going to run it, Choose one of the high skill styles or a scum. Luckily WOSs are one of the high skill styles. I choose another burner that will have the BS after trains: 10-13-14-10-16-15-6. I have not had great success with low parry scum warriors, which is another option on this guy. I fully expect poor results with this guy.
You'll notice a pattern in my WOS designs. All have very high will (16-21). The lowest Strength is 10. 9 is bare minimum, but 11+ is recommended for most WOSs. Wit is not as high a priority, but always desired. Speed is unnecessary (0 points added to speed). 11 Deftness is perfect, more is great, less not so much. Con is the most interesting stat on a WOS. Most managers prefer medium-high con. It is traditional that WOSs have con. That said, there are numerous examples of low con WOSs that have been very successful (including TCs). I chose to make all hybrid types with more moderate con, but a couple of these I could have gone with a more defensive version.