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DakkaDakka is a large, independent wargaming community that features discussion, tutorials and images for many games. If you are new to the world of wargaming then learn about it in our introductory article: What is Wargaming?
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DakkaDakka - Warhammer, 40k, Warmachine and Flames of War Community.
DakkaDakka is a large, independent wargaming community that features discussion, tutorials and images for many games.
Warhammer 40,000
Our warhammer 40k forums are among our most popular. They have been operating the longest and contain discussion about every facet of warhammer 40k from tactics and army lists to background and upcoming releases.
Warhammer Fantasy
The Warhammer Fantasy Battle Forums are consistently increasing in popularity and are almost on a par with our 40k forums covering the same large range of content with advice from some of the best tacticians the world has to offer.
Warmachine and Hordes
Dakka now has one of the largest Warmachine and Hordes forums on the web, and has a huge range of Warmachine Pictures in our gallery.
Flames of War
Flames of War and other historical games are growing in popularity here on dakka and we invite anyone to join in and discuss them in detail. As flames of war grows more popular, Dakka's coverage will only increase. Be sure to check out the Flames of War gallery to see some inspiring stuff.
Dakka Features
Dakka is a big site with a lot to explore. Here we highlight some of our more interesting features:
Wargaming Gallery
The dakka gallery is one of the largest wargaming galleries in the world and has a huge range of tagged miniatures from many game systems. From flames of war to Maelstrom's Edge, and of course 40k. You can vote on images (like using hot-or-not), and use our advanced gallery search engine to find exactly what you are looking for, be it space marines, orks, cryx or Dark Elves!
Forums
The dakka forums are growing faster and faster and are the bread and butter of the website. They still maintain quality and a fair level of freedom compared to many other forums. Our most popular forum is News and Rumours, but Dakka Discussions and 40k army lists are very popular too. There are some important rules to consider (no spam, no swearing, no piracy) but everybody gets on well enough thanks to our great moderation team.
Articles
The dakka wargaming articles are run on a wiki (like wikipedia). We have a huge range of wargaming articles covering everything from tactica to modeling and painting and even some great funny stuff. If you are bored and want to have the equivalent of dozens of magazines to read then head over to the main articles page and start clicking around. Because it is a wiki, anybody can hop in and click the 'edit' tab at the top of the page, so if you have anything to add or just see some typos or bad grammar then you can help make it better for everyone.
Army Profiles
Dakka's army profiles are a throwback to the very earliest version of dakka from the late 1990s, where various armies were highlighted in detail. Our army profiles section now contains many armies from different game systems with in depth photographs, army lists and explanations of their signifigance from their owners.
DCMs
Help keep Dakkadakka.com running by becoming a DCM (Dakka Contributing Member) and enjoy a ton of perks for doing a good deed! For a small donation of only $25 a year you gain the following benefits:
- Surf with ease! Get an ad-free site.
- Be a celebrity! Get a 'DCM' marker in the forum listings and under your username.
- Name yourself! Create your own custom title in the forums.
- Expand your conversation! Post and chat in a private DCM forum.
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Posted: 2026-04-22 12:59:07
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By landcruiserlarry
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Posted: 2026-04-22 11:59:07
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Forum post by FeistyRips, 36 responses at time of this post.
Hi there! Figured I'd start a new thread to showcase some Inq28 characters I made and some that I am still working on. Since the time I bought my first White Dwarf Magazine in 2001, I was in LOVE with the Inquisitor setting and the miniatures. I still fondly remember the awesome battle reports in the issues of WD around that time. While I never got into the Inquisitor game itself, lacking anyone to play against, I was still always interested in the setting because it offers so many intersting possibilities. I love the conversion aspect and creating some custom fluff for the resulting miniatures that befits the grim darkness of the 41st millenium. I recently listened to the Eisenhorn trilogy audiobooks, and am in the middle of the Ravenor series now. This has sparked my interest to delve into some conversion work, but rather than doing some original 54mm size miniatures, I decided to go for the much more prevalent Inq28 scale. With my bitz box having collected stuff from many years of hobbying, I can get creative and make some cool conversions for that game system. I hope there are some fellow Inquisitor fans out there who will apreciate this kind of content. Now without further ado, let's get to the good stuff.
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Posted: 2026-04-22 10:59:07
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Forum post by BrookM, 36 responses at time of this post.
If already posted elsewhere, hit that triangle and I'll take it out back.
https://youtu.be/9wcZXpbw3PI?si=JkJZBx3pwi0oHOVu
Link: https://www.goonhammer.com/welcome-to-tabletop-battles/
Welcome to Tabletop Battles!
You may have noticed we’ve changed the name of the site. And some of the logos. And the YouTube channel. And a few other things. That’s because we changed all those things while you were sleeping. We’re proud to announce that these are all part of a new name and new look to the site formerly known as Goonhammer.
When we started this big, dumb website back in 2018, Goonhammer was a fine, tongue-in-cheek name that honored the history of where we’d come from - namely, shitposting on the Something Awful forums about Warhammer. But nearly a decade later, we’re the largest worker-owned media collective in the tabletop and wargaming space, running the top apps for running campaigns (Administratum) and tracking games (The Tabletop Battles App), and we’ve decided it was time that our name matched our present rather than our past.
We were also pretty sick of people bringing up that our name had become a reference to perverts.
If you’ve been supporting us all these years, first off - Thanks! We wouldn’t be here without you, and we’re grateful for your support. We’re going to keep creating the same great content and apps you love. And if you’re new here, welcome! We’re a worker-owned collective who are passionate about tabletop games. We build apps, run events, and write about the games we love. You should consider supporting us on Patreon - doing so gets you ad-free access to the site, plus access to exclusive content and a ton of extra apps and features.
So kick back and check out the new site. Not a lot has changed, but we have been working on some improvements to make it faster and more responsive. Hopefully you won’t even notice.
- Robert...
Post continues at https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/818792.page
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Posted: 2026-04-21 12:59:07
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By Captain Brown
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Posted: 2026-04-21 11:59:07
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By SarpedonofSotha
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Posted: 2026-04-21 10:59:07
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By Bacxaber
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Posted: 2026-04-21 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-20 13:59:07
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By RAFF
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Posted: 2026-04-20 12:59:07
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Forum post by AnomanderRake, 36 responses at time of this post.
My playgroup has been messing around with various editions of Middlehammer (mostly 4th and 7th/HH1) recently, and we've been talking about trying to mess around with the rules a bit and see what happens. In theory this is in service of a set of rules using the bones of 7th, adjusted for ease and speed of play, with an eye towards maximizing compatibility with as wide a range of minis as possible. Some ideas we've been tossing around:
-Line of Sight/terrain height: I actually kind of like the 2d line of sight implementation in 10e, but I kind of want to pull in terrain/unit height to allow for a little more granularity in positioning. The idea would be that all units and terrain have a height (generally 1 for infantry, 2 for most vehicles/monsters, say), and then terrain adds its height to the height of things standing on it (a one-level ruin might be height 2, so it'd let an infantry unit see/be seen over most vehicles). You then draw LoS in 2 dimensions and it's blocked by anything that's equal to or taller than both the firing model and the target. Units would block LoS (both friendly and enemy), to let you hide valuable units behind expendable units like how old-school Target Priority worked but without having a whole extra dice roll step when attacking. Height might also factor into vertical melee distance so you don't need whole extra special rules to determine that a Knight can melee an upper level of a ruin from where it's standing on the ground.
-Unit coherency and blasts: Actually playing 7e involves a lot of spreading infantry units out into a maximum-coherency grid; I think removing "partial hits" from blast templates may have been an overcorrection to the addition of the 32mm base. That said having an extra dice roll step isn't necessarily something that I want to hold onto, but it might be interesting to make a partial hit from a blast/template dete...
Post continues at https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/818648.page
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Posted: 2026-04-20 11:59:07
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Forum post by Mr Nobody, 36 responses at time of this post.
So right now the various denizens of twitter are bickering with each other over the current Yarrick trailer. More specifically the lack of The Armageddon Steel Legion within said trailer. Some lament the lack of the Steel legion while others are waving away such concerns by pointing out things like repainting or DKOK, making your own kitbashes or buying third party. I think both sides have valid points.
But then I thought to myself, what would be the best way to support the Imperial Guard? There are so many different worlds and warbands to pick from. I always felt that was the charm of collection IG. I remember older WD magazines being full of article for kitbashes and various paint schemes. Not as much as the vaunted space marines, but still.
So if you were in charge of GW, how would you handle the IG releases?
Should there be multiples codices or just one big book with a ton of customization? Maybe smaller, suplimental codcies like the various space marines.
Could there perhaps be multiple troop boxes? I imagine if you had three main regiments as boxes within distinct aesthetics, you could kitbash those into a variety of other regiments. Killteam is another route they could take. That's how they first reintroduced the DKOK. They could do the same with other regiment kill teams.
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Posted: 2026-04-20 10:59:07
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Forum post by JNAProductions, 36 responses at time of this post.
See title.
A Great Unclean One has a 6+ Feel No Pain and 20 Wounds.
On average, that's the same as having 24 Wounds and no FNP.
I would be 100% fine changing them to no a FNP, 24 Wound statline. But this is also a case where that 6+ can be attempted a minimum of 20 times before death.
What about a 5+ FNP and a W2 model? That's, on average, the same as W3 with no FNP. But in practice it's pretty different, since you've still got a close to 50% chance of dying to 2 damage.
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Posted: 2026-04-19 10:59:07
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Forum post by Adeptekon, 36 responses at time of this post.
I don't know how common place this is across homeworlds nor that which has been conquered, but I've recently learned that some of our brothers on fedual worlds are doing things the traditional way. Particularly when resources and supply chains are next to non-existent. To be specific the chapter militia, however as recruits are inducted into these militias some are clad like Astartes. The armor may be powered or not, but it is much smaller and lighter regardless. They do not compare in size or weight of a first born and it is a questionable practice to mimic presence of a battle brother. No... it's an offense.
Yet rather than to police that on distant worlds with little interaction other than their due tithe we may for now ignore it. The humans are equipped well enough to handle what they have to deal with. Though we will want to discuss transitioning this practice to something that distinqushes men-at-arms, base human "knights" from Adeptus Astartes marines, and lay ground rules with their Artificers.
For such a breed of horse to carry a first born it would need to reach five thousand lbs in order to bear the weight of a fully armored space marine, and as well any barding worn by the horse. This is unrealistic even with genetic engineering without the hand of the Emperor. The Templar regents on these low tech worlds cut off from supply lines have made an executive descision to use base humans in place of Astartes (marines they have no means to produce) to maintain their lands while only a single ancient remains to manage the chapter keep.
Here are a few images we captured (sorry embed appears not to work for these)
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Posted: 2026-04-19 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-18 14:59:07
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By JoshInJapan
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Posted: 2026-04-18 13:59:07
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By KeX
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Posted: 2026-04-18 12:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-18 11:59:07
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By Olthannon
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Posted: 2026-04-18 10:59:07
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