Yeah. I've also been thinking that, instead, you get XP if you successfully help them, which means you get 1 either way.

If you don't want to zoom out, then don't zoom out.

Describe the situation. Be specific. Ask what they do. Stay zoomed in, moment to moment. When there's danger (of harm, missed opportunity, loss of position, etc.), ask what they do, then roll Defy. They deal with that specific danger, which colors how the chase is going, what opportunities remain, etc. etc.

In other words, the danger doesn't have to be "they get away" if you don't want to zoom out like that. Chase scenes are full of lots of little dangerous moments and split-second outcomes. Stay zoomed in and let the chase develop organically. When they defy any danger, they roll it.

Novices think this is just "rolling defy danger over and over again" but it isn't. It's the GM saying what's happening, the players saying what the characters do, and moves being triggered by the fiction -- not because the GM is "calling for a roll to resolve it" the way you do in some other games.

Ha! Okay, okay. :)

Yeah, that's pretty good.

I don't get the reference of the move name.

Friendly AW-style game reminder:

A miss is not necessarily a failure.

1. Yep.

2. Depends on the situation. GM says what's what.

3. I applied wounds to multiple targets when someone used spray or autofire. The assault move doesn't supersede that. Your 5-on-3 scenario makes sense for multiple enemies hit, too.

Autofire just does what it says. If you don't spend, you don't get any benefit.

4. Yeah, that's accurate. I need to clarify the text to reflect that.

5. Gear boxes are only as abstract as the fiction allows. If it seems stupid to share boxes, don't do it. Your loadout says what your boxes represent, so when your loadout changes (to captured german stuff, say) then yeah, it's not compatible and you can't share boxes (or re-supply from unit reserves).

If you 'pretend' that you're out of ammo for your gun so you still have grenades... then yeah, that's what's happening. If you shoot it all, then that's what you brought -- a bunch of ammo instead of grenades.

If you hit a really awkward situation, like saying you prep a grenade, but then you shoot off all your boxes as ammo first, then, sure. Go ahead and throw the grenade you were supposed to have, "for free." No big deal. In some cases, it makes sense for the GM to call for a scrounge move when you dig through all your pouches to see if you have anything left. Zero boxes doesn't have to mean that you literally have nothing on you, in the fiction.

Also, yeah, just writing '2 grenades, 4 LMG ammo' is fine.

Ha! I like that reading.