That's pretty much all there is, Arvid. They're based on the NPC rules in Afraid, Vincent's unfinished DITV hack for doing investigative horror, and were posted on Anyway a while back.  Basically, you just pick one of these four "lines" for each NPC the Dogs encounter and start out rolling the first group of dice (6d6+2d8 say), regardless of what kind of conflict it begins as.  Then, if the NPC escalates, you have them roll the next set of dice.

John, if you've got Comcast, it's streaming on their On Demand service, I think.  Under "TV shows." We still need to go back and watch the first season, but the current one's been great.

Everyone else has covered 1-4, but I wanted to say something about the 1st Session worksheet and Fronts.

I had trouble with the 1st Session worksheet too, because it doesn't really fit how I was thinking about things and doesn't really give me the tools I felt like I needed when running the first session, aside from the list of names.  Mostly, I filled it out after the 1st Session was over, to help me think about Fronts.  Things were just too fast and exciting for me to stop and write everything down and think about where it fit amidst the fundamental scarcities, etc.  Next time I start a campaign, I'm going to make a new 1st Session sheet that gives me more useful tools and info at my fingertips.  So use it when it's helpful, but don't feel like you're breaking the game if you don't really use it all that much.  Just follow the players around, make your MC moves when necessary, and barf forth apocalyptica.  Those are the key things to do, first session.

I was also talking to a friend recently and it turns out we both make Fronts backwards from what Vincent suggests in the game.  Whereas Vincent says to make your Fronts first and then use them to generate a bunch of subsidiary threats, we both find it makes more sense to make a whole bunch of threats, based on the NPCs and what seems to be out there in the game, and then group them into Fronts based on theme or origin or geographic location or what have you.  So it can really work both ways and, honestly, I find the latter way more natural but maybe you'll like Vincent's way better. 

In my current game, the Fronts are very geographical right now.  The threats on the PCs home space station are all a Front, even though the threats are pretty different.  The stretch of scavenger space where they go for supplies is a Front containing a number of threats.  There's Fronts back on earth and on the moon if they ever go there.  However, as the game progresses, I expect that this is all going to mix up pretty fast.  Some of the junklords might come live on or take over the station.  The PCs will bring threats from the station with them when they head to earth or the moon.  The PCs will form gangs that are made up of threats from locations outside the station.  The PCs may eventually leave the station to go live somewhere else, full of its own threats. 

So, my recommendation is, at the beginning, just group threats into Fronts the way that is the easiest for you to keep track of.  That may not necessarily be geographical.  If you're game is set in a zombie plague, maybe all the zombies are part of the same Front and so is the infection that causes people to turn into zombies.  But just go with what makes sense, because it's mostly just a shorthand and organizational thing to make the MC's life easier.  And the players are sure to mix it up and move things around later in the game anyway, so you don't need to worry about making it too complex in the beginning.

Hope that helps.

I describe a giant ark of a transport ship floating amidst a cloud of its own debris, the top decks of the ship having been apparently blown out from the inside. Pellet's crew have parked their modified commercial space plane upside down on the bottom of the ark's hull and are carving into it with a blowtorch to attempt to siphon its liquid or pressurized gas fuel into their own small ship.

We decide that the scavenger crew from Legacy Station, nominally led by Trench, are in some modified escape pod that doesn't really fly very well and only really has room for three people, so Trench has opted to instead strap himself to the outside of the pod and ride along EVA. Corbett mans the pod while Trench, Millions, and Vladimir float over to Pellet's crew and "offer assistance," mostly in the form of Trench going aggro on Pellet to enlist their help looking for seeds.

There's a brief lull here as the fuel siphoning commences, so I make my MC move (put someone in a spot) and ask if anyone wants to read a charged situation.  Trench fails with a 6 and Vlad helps him to bump it up to a 7-9. "What should I be on the lookout for?" of course. Well, there's a dozen creepy dudes in scavenged metal armor fitted with samurai-style demon masks crawling down both sides of the ark's hull towards you, hooking onto things with razor sharp (maybe nano-sharp) finger claws and carrying space-modified rifles across their backs.

Trench points his axe at them and orders them to stop.  Instead, they draw their guns and open fire.  The battle begins. I suggest that, depending on what they want to do next, they may first have to act under fire.  

Trench says he's just going to go right at them, no caring that they're shooting, and wants to know if he can seize a solid tactical position by force.  Uh huh, sounds good to me.  10+, so he throws himself into the middle of them, decapitates one of them, takes no harm, fear-dismay-frightens them, and now they can't really shoot him effectively without risking shooting some of their own, as Trench is right in the middle.

Vladimir decides to act under fire to avoid getting shot. 7-9, so I say that the siphoning hose for the space plane is right behind him. That's Pellet's problem! Vlad dives out of the way and the hose gets ripped to fuck. A green gaseous substance starts slowly forming an opaque cloud, pouring out the hole cut in the bottom of the ark. Pellet, Balls, and Jakabaka run for their plane.

Vladimir then panics that he doesn't have his own assault rifle (which hasn't been modified for space yet), but decides to go aggro on a demon-dude to get him to give up his gun. 6, but Grace inspires him with memories of her (skinner hold) and he gets a 7-9 instead. He takes a bullet to the chest-plate of his spacesuit and can feel the divot scraping against the fabric of his suit, threatening to tear it, but gets the gun.

Next, Millions tries to go after them in a similar fashion but, not used to fighting in space, tries to jump on top of one and misses, floating over the whole battle and threatening to just keep on drifting until he hits something solid.

Pellet and his crew are now aboard their space plane and prepare to blow this popsicle stand. Pellet sets himself up in the turret they've installed in the top of the plane and swings its big fuck off gun right through the crowd of demon-faces guys, not really paying attention to Trench standing in the middle of them. DOOF DOOF DOOF DOOF!! goes the fuck off gun, shooting slugs the size of fists.

Trench decides not to avoid the fuck off gun, but instead to act under fire to grab Millions before he drifts totally away.  Success, but 7-9! Are you really going to take a fist-sized slug for Millions? Trench says bring it.  I flip through the book and grab one of the vehicle guns from the driver's "My other car is a tank" move. And then, like the badass faceless he is, Trench takes 0 harm and totally aces his roll+harm suffered. Holy crap that guy is tough.

Vladimir declares he's provide cover fire for Trench, keeping the demon-faced dudes off his buddy. We decide that this is going aggro rather than the optional move for cover fire (since this is our first fight). 10+, but they decide to flee rather than do what he wants, so Vladimir lights them up with his newly acquired space-rifle. As a quarantine, he decides to do s-harm area, carefully shooting their air hoses, leaving them all gasping and struggling to fix their suits.

Victory! The demon-faced guys limp over the side of the ark and back down into the interior. Trench and Vladimir have a brief chat and decide to go after them. "Something valuable must be here, if it's worth guarding," Trench suggests.  Millions is embarrassed by his performance in the fight, grabs one of the demon space-guns that's floating next to a dead guy, and looks ready to shoot some dudes this time around. They tether their pod to the side of the hull and tell Corbett to wait and Millions to guard the ship.  He's not happy about it, but Trench tells him that the demon-faced dudes are likely to come back and he can shoot some of them then.

It's up to you, Jamie.  I'm not worried about it. I mean, every NPC is a threat (or part of one) until you get advanced moves and take some of them as allies, right?  That's how the game works!

Honestly, it doesn't bother me if you know what my MC moves were after a session was over, but if that spoils the magic for you... it's your call.

For me, it was about getting a chance to examine some loose ends or consequences left dangling or unexplored. It also served, in practice, to remind folks of what had happened and kick off the action this time around, especially for the characters without "session moves" like Fortunes or The Past.  However, I did notice the love letter moves kinda overshadowed the session moves this time around, so I'm going to try to work better to integrate them next time.

Like, the Quarantine love letter (#2) probably should have been worded: "First, let's see what you remember from your past.  Blah blah.  THEN..."  Likewise with the Skinner+followers love letter (#1).

I really like love letters as part of MC prep because they really get me to focus on a couple of things that I don't do as much, namely 1) cutting straight to the meat of things (like skipping the council meeting and skipping the journey out to scavenger space), and focusing on what's happening RIGHT NOW, rather than thinking too far ahead in the future.  Both of those seem to be pretty critical aspects of MCing AW.

So... the MC move "Inflict harm as established" and the harm that a PC gets when they choose to "Seize something by force" (a player move) are different things.  And in neither case does it matter if you're taking harm from multiple sources/directions or not. All that matters is if you're taking harm from one or two dudes, a small gang, a medium gang, or a larger gang. Those are your choices!

If you're using the MC move "inflict harm," then you inflict harm based on the weapons and size of the person/group doing the harm.

If the player is "seizing by force," then -- doing this from memory -- they inflict their harm (based on weapons + size of their gang, and +1 if the player chooses "inflict terrible harm") and take harm from their opponents (usually 2 harm + size of their gang, and -1 if the player chooses "suffer little harm"). That's it.

AW isn't gritty and representational, mechanically. All the grit comes in the fictional description of how it goes down. If you want to make custom moves to do it differently, you can, but that's how it works, by the book.

What FigureFour said. Amen to that.  You're playing your NPCs and getting them into position so you can make MC moves when 1) it's appropriate or 2) they fail a roll.