If I may make a small suggestion:

Archaeopteryx was about the size of a housecat.  For your flyer, might I suggest Quetzalcoatlus? 

I played the Battlebabe/Shieldmaiden.

Good ideas, all, especially with the inflict harm bit.  Hadn't thought of that!

I'll just point out that Acting Under Fire's 7-9 result always comes with a downside ("worse outcome, hard bargain, or ugly choice"), and this move doesn't seem to have a downside at the 7-9 level, so I'd be worried about players abusing it.

That's a good point, too.  I've been mulling this one over for a bit and not sure how to proceed.  On the one hand, I think it's not necessarily a big deal if the players can sneak around effectively.  On the other hand, there should probably be a bigger risk than what's presented.

Bear with me, I'm thinking aloud.

Sneaking is a means to an end, like violence.  Sneaking is about moving someplace to: 

• Bypass an obstacle (guard, sentry, watchdog, etc.).
• Gain an advantage (for when you want to follow up with another move).
• Discover something (scouting, shadowing someone, etc.).

Still mulling over how to make this work, exactly.

Does this help?

Yes, quite a bit!  Not unlike the Fate system.  Thank you for the in-depth discussion.

I want a move that is a very direct "kill" move.  AW's standard go aggro/seize by force doesn't have this because (I believe) the violence within the fiction is based upon violence as a means rather than an ends.  Well, I want violence that's a means and ends, the move to use when someone says "I pull out my sword and stab him because I don't like him."  I know Dungeon World does this, but Hack 'n' Slash leaves me a little cold.  While I love the system, those two moves lack a certain flair.

Ideally, the move itself would encompass both melee and ranged combat.  I'm going for a sort of gritty fantasy feel, not entirely unlike AW:DA, though with more of a smaller focus--not entire battles, but blow-by-blow combat.  The basics I have down so far:

When you wade into battle, roll +hard.  On a 10+, you harm your foe and choose one of the following.  On a 7-9, you inflict harm.

• You shed much blood (+1 harm, +area optional).
• You don't expose yourself to danger.
• You drive your enemy back, provoke him to flee, or impress or dismay him.

That's the basics of the move.  I think it's okay.  I know that seize by force normally has you trade harm, but I would prefer not taking harm to be an option on a successful roll--people are going to making the move more often than they might in regular AW, so there will be more opportunities to take hits.

The one thing that I want to add in to this move is a sort of stunting.  I want players to do things like disarm, trip, pin, grapple, and shove their foes.  I want them to shield bash and stun, I want them to hold their foes at bay with polearms,  I want them to smash shields and armor with maces, and so on.  And they can do all that, of course, and it can simply be presented in the fiction...but the move as-written doesn't encourage it.

Compare a couple of moves:

• The Hocus's frenzy: the move as-written reinforces the idea of the Hocus as a cult leader.  It's more than being an inspiring leader or commander, it's about "bring[ing] people forth and deliver[ing] them," and "falling into an orgy of uninhibited emotion."

• The Savvyhead's things speak: the move is more than knowledge, it's supernatural, it's about the Savvyhead being weird and sensing what he shouldn't be able to.

• The Brainer's special: the Brainer can never have a normal relationship with someone because he's a freak.  He can't help it because any time he's with someone he'll know the dark secrets within, and he might just kill the person, too.

I need something to make the move speak about doing extraordinary things in combat.  Initially, I was going to give the weapons tags, like +stun for a shield or +disarm for a sword, but those seem very limiting.

Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?