It's pitch-perfect for Road Warrior style games, as the dozens upon dozens of badass psychic wasteland AP posts will attest. It's a shame that your game went so poorly that your impression was skewed that badly. Because, wow.

No surprises here. Of course your game failed. You made two big mistakes:

1. You put mecahnics first (you probably rolled act under fire to dodge attacks or some shit like that, thus, "NPCs can't do anything"). In normal AW, the fact that an NPC doesn't have to roll to shoot you is scary -- not a free pass. When you puts mechanics first, and judge everything with a PC roll, the game breaks.

2. Players didn't follow their one overriding rule (p. 96): Play your characters like real people (not sociopathic automatons).

So, yep. That's a sure fire mess.

Without those problems, powerful PCs are lots of fun.

I use InDesign for pretty much everything. The sheets are ready for sharing right now, though... the game is way too volatile and far from released. Maybe I'll make a template or something once the game is in a stable state. Hacking it now is a bit premature, I think. :)

You can drop me an email. oneseven on g mail.

Yes, a translation would be great!

Maybe hold off on posting it publicly, though. I want WoD to remain as a DW Kickstarter exclusive thing for now.

To say what Adam said in another way, "There's no such thing as 'two perfectly matched warriors'." There are always fictional details to distinguish them. Treating anything abstractly in AW-style games is often a source of trouble.

NPC vs. NPC is standard "GM makes a move" territory. So make a GM move the same way you always do, in accordance with the principles and agenda of the game.

Also, this is quite timely:

http://jrients.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-cant-you-kill-villain-normal-way.html

I just browsed a few scanned pages of Commando... looks perfect for The Regiment.