Only thing I would have an eye on is to keep things scarce. In my first game as MC I allowed the players a lots of cool stuff they authored in the world and - while it was cool - it was hard to keep up the scarcity as most immanent threat. So, yes, the BB has a bar, but its really only a broken shed, a table and some dirty glasses - barf apocalyptica.

Oh .. and one player in said game wasnt as creative and didnt get so much cool assets and felt left behind later on. I didnt realized that in time, but it came back to bite me later.

Hi,

I'm not sure I get bonds correctly. I know AW well and some other hacks, but only skimmed DW yet. As far as my research told me bonds stems from DW?

So my understanding is that you define connections/bonds you have with other characters (to one character you have two bonds, to 2 other chars one bond). Each bond is a sentence that describes how these characters are connected (like "Oh boy, that recruit is so green, I'll have an eye on him")

In DW there are prewritten bonds in the playbooks, but it encourages to write your own. I assume The Regiment (at least now) goes all the "write your own" way?

Am I right so far? Or is BOND much more like Hx from AW - once its determined its mostly a numeric value? Are there any helpful posts out there how to write good bonds?

Are there any other uses for bonds than the AID move and the XP gain on bond +4?

I totally know that this is an alpha version, so it might be just a matter of "not done yet", but both Hx and DW-bonds give you lots of guidance to fill your backstory (creativity kickstart). Is this left out on purpose here?

Other than this topic I'm really excited about this (especially colonial marines, as I dont dig WW2 much). The VOF/damage part took me a bit to figure out and I have to see how the battle plans will work in play but I think I reached a solid understanding there. Just bonds missing ...

I find it most useful to answer those questions fiction-first. Does it make sense that Chaplain hits both with his action - then cool, share the harm, or let both get harmed fully. There is no much danger here in handling it either ways - a bit more harm to your NPC (you watch them through crosshairs anyway) - no big deal. 

On the other hand the game gets clunky when you make it rules-first and try to have the fiction follow that. (It might work in this case, but as often it wont)

If I ask them, they answer something like "i'm seizing the life of the raiders" or "i'm seizing the moment" (example written in rulebook !)... the kind of magic answer which always works, but seems a little too easy.

If players state just a move name I ask them "cool, how do you do that?" to ground the move in the fiction. When they answer that you will have a better feeling if this is really the move they called and what to do on a miss.

EDIT: if I had read carefully what gregpogor had posted I might have considered posting this - its pretty much the same advice.

Maybe these?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/124127689/precision-machined-dice

The d6 from this set are also quite fitting

http://www.gmdice.com/set-of-white-and-black-nuke-dice

Turning people on doesnt happen that much ... although we triggered 3-4 sex moves in our 15 hours of play. Lashing out happened maybe 2-3 times.

I think it does happen .. and when I clearly reckon that I call for the roll. Sometimes I just give in, see no need for a roll, but when I do so there probably is none justified. Dunno

This just hardens my fear to cheat my players of roll opportunities (not that they complain)?!

Oh, I dont worry too much. :) The game as we play it is great for us - no real need to change a thing. I'm just curious if other people do it differently (esp. in that aspect)

Yeah, I had trouble with the start too.

Set-up was great, and then I had to come up with the first scenes. And ... nothing. Totally blocked. I went with "follow them through an ordinary day" and had two pretty boring scenes. But then it started and conflict was found and it all sped up into a fantastic session.

I experienced the same with The Mountainwitch and I wonder if this slow start is actually necessary to develop a comfort with character and setting to build the scene for the later play. Dunno.

Joe gave good advice here though and I might benefit next time I start a new MH campaign.