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Dakka News
See You At Adepticon!
Another year has come and gone and its time to head on back out to Chi-town for a weekend of gaming bliss at Adepticon '08.
For those of you not attending, I feel a little sorry for you. You're going to be missing out on one hell of a lot of fun at a pretty unique event.
For those of you who are going to make it, I look forward to seeing and hanging out with everyone. If you haven't met me before look for the really short guy with dark hair sometimes wearing a Sean Connery T-shirt.
The Dakka Detachment team is heading back again trying to bring the national Team Title home. We've done pretty darn good with our Battle Scores the last couple of years but our painting and theme have suffered.
But this year we actually took the time to make a cohesive army, buy some nice looking shirts and we'll even have cool Dakka themed dice to play with, so surely nothing can go wrong with our plans for world domination, right?
Perhaps. But we did go out on a limb and pick an army that pretty much none of the four of us have any real experience playing with. So it may end up being that we lose all our games and fail miserably anyway. . .only time now will tell.
As for what army we're taking, here's a sneak peek of one of our commander models (pre-based):
So wish us luck (for those not playing in the tournie). Those who are traveling, have a safe one and I'll see you soon!
By legoburner on 2008-04-10
Ladies and Gentleman, I am pleased to announce that we have a winner for the "Oi! Whose Da Best!?" Dakka Painting Challenge!
It is none other Grey_Death, Dakka's newest forum moderator, the man behind the curtain who runs the Dakka Painting Challenges and all around stellar painter and modeler.
His winning model was a perfectly appropriate big, mean and nasty Ogryn.
I'd swear the fix was in on this contest if it wasn't for the fact that the prize of a set of Dakka dice is something that Grey_Death already got just for being a moderator!
So although he'll claim the rightful title of a Dakka Painting Challenge Champion the prize of a set of ultra-rare Dakka dice will be passed on to the second place finisher Vengis for his fantastic Tharn Ravager.
A Big thanks to all those who submitted entries and everyone who took the time to vote. If you'd like to see the names of who submitted which model, you can visit THIS thread.
It was a great challenge but even bigger and better things are planned for the next one, so keep an eye out here for details!
By yakface on 2008-04-01
Dakka 5.11
Well after months of hard work, the latest, greatest version of dakka has been released and is what you are looking at now. There are a HUGE number of changes which have occurred and I'll outline a few of them for you here...
- New articles system - based on wiki software so any of you can start adding wargaming related articles right away!
- Army profiles have returned - a dakka classic, you can make a dedicated article page describing your army in detail allowing the whole world to see your coolness
- Full read tracking for the forums - no longer will all posts be marked 'read' when you logout, now you have to manually click 'mark all posts as read' so you wont miss any great discussion. One side effect of this is that all threads since 2 weeks ago will be marked unread, but this is just a one off occurrence as part of this switch.
- My Subscribed Threads - Now we have a much better thread subscription. Accessible from your profile page, you can make sure you never miss a reply to any of your posts.
- Ignore/Friend - Now you can ignore users who annoy you. Just click 'Ignore' under any of their posts and all their posts will be hidden in the future. You can 'friend' someone and access their profile easily (with more features to be added in the future).
- About 80 minor bugs have been squashed too, making dakka run and work better than ever before!
As usual there will be a few bugs I am sure, but many thanks to yakface and our moderator team (especially iorek and grey_death) for their hard work testing this new release and catching a dozen bugs before it went out! If you have any graphical bugs then hold down shift on your keyboard and press your browser refresh button. If you still have errors, then please report them in our Nuts and Bolts forum and we will fix them!
By legoburner on 2008-03-16
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