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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: 2026-06-11 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-06-10 12:59:07
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Forum post by some bloke, 36 responses at time of this post.
Showing my age here, and there may be some lore developments which I have missed, but why on terra is this new box set, named "Armageddon", the iconic site of the battles between Commissar Yarrick of the Imperial Guard and Ghazkull's Orks, featuring Orks and... space marines?
I know that Space Marines are paint-by-numbers posterchildren of 40k, but when did they become the go-to imperial faction one considers when thinking of Armageddon? Am I missing some lore that makes this make sense, or is it just because GW has some weird thing where every starter set must have people buy space marines?
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Posted: 2026-06-10 11:59:07
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Forum post by Daia T'Nara, 36 responses at time of this post.
So a few weeks back I was at a collector con, buying back my childhood one old toy at a time, and I spotted a Whirlwind in a ziplock bag (plus five of the 2nd edition monopose Tacticals, maybe whoever packed it mistook it for a Razorback) in a sale bin of otherwise unremarkable toy vehicles going for $5 each. I play Chaos Marines so I've got no use for a Whirlwind, and definitely couldn't be bothered stripping the paint off a vehicle, but I'd already blown significantly more money on Xena action figures and a Space: 1999 model kit of Moonbase Alpha, I couldn't pass that bargain up. I figured I'd put it on a shelf somewhere just as something that's neat to look at occasionally.
Then I started contemplating the paint job: it was basic, just flat colours, and the base blue seemed to have been applied with a trowel rather than a paintbrush, assembly was a bit haphazard as well, but it wasn't a mess, everything stayed within its lines, it was all the proper colours, it had its transfers on - I fancied it was the work of some 12-year-old who wasn't a very experienced painter yet, but got a vehicle and did their best to make it look like it did on the box, and was probably pretty proud of having a table-ready Whirlwind at the end. I was that 12-year-old once, I wouldn't have done any better. So I got it into my head to 'restore' it - I'm a novice at vehicles myself, but I know enough to turn a basic flat paint job into a pretty fun one, inks in the crevices, edge highlighting, contrast paint grime on the exhausts and muck on the tracks, glow up the lenses, add a bit of freehand for extra character.
Then I was passing by a newsagent and spotted a few backissues of Imperium - can't think why now, it's been over for ages, maybe they just got lost in a storeroom and they finally noticed them and put them out for sale. And among them were two of the three sprues for the Red...
Post continues at https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/815126.page
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By Camkierhi
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Posted: 2026-06-09 14:59:07
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Forum post by Mad Doc Grotsnik, 36 responses at time of this post.
How do!
So something that’s cropped up multiple times in multiple background threads is the tedium of Memeified Background. Typically, but not entirely limited to, a single piece of background flavour being taken as gospel, when actually, things are more interesting, varied and subtle.
And what I want people to do is to nominate a Memeified aspect of the background for a group analysis. Whilst no-one, not even GW, knows every single last bit of lore ever written ever? Between us we’re fairly well read, and have a good collective library of books to check and cite. And so we can collectively discuss and explore, to better understand the background. We’ll likely never get to absolute certainty and “truth”, but we should be able to add some real depth to the wider understanding.
Once we’ve a few nominations for exploration, I’ll add a poll. Been ages since we had a poll. And from there, start with the most voted for.
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Posted: 2026-06-09 13:59:07
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By Meer_Cat
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Posted: 2026-06-09 12:59:07
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Taken with a Canon PowerShot A2200
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By RAFF
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By 2boltpistols
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Posted: 2026-06-06 19:59:07
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By Captain Brown
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By danesk
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Posted: 2026-06-06 17:59:07
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Forum post by Nevelon, 36 responses at time of this post.
Welcome all to the 136th round of the Dakka Painting challenge. For the unfamiliar, this is a friendly painting competition open to members of all skill levels and experience, whether your entry is your first or you thousand-and-first time painting miniatures. Each month, finished entries are collected into a thread where the community can vote on their favorite pieces, and those votes go towards an annual overall League that runs for 12 rounds.
This month the topic is: From the Archives: Librarians, archivists, researchers, wizards, inquisitors, - or old classic minis from the vaults! Knock the dust off the old tomes and bring them to the light. Dig something up from the forbidden stacks.
- You may enter up to 5 MODELS as a SINGLE ENTRY, and are permitted one entry per member per month. If you enter multiple models, they should ideally be related in some way, such as part of the same squad, unit or scene if you are doing a diorama
- You may enter at any time during the month, up to the last minute. We do encourage people to enter early, as to be part of the community, but if you can’t start until the 11th hour, that’s OK.
- You MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it; this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or coated a single colour. Entries that do not submit a valid Proof Picture will not be eligible for voting.
- After this, you may post WIP pictures in this thread and your own if you wish, and on completing the entry, you may post up to 6 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting. Please note that pictures in a montage or collage picture will be considered individual images for this purpose, so while these types of presentation are certainly acceptable, please keep the image limit in mind when compiling them. For example, a collage of 5 images and one...
Post continues at https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/819043.page
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Posted: 2026-06-06 16:59:07
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By KidCthulhu
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By RAFF
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By Sherrypie
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Forum post by mrFickle, 36 responses at time of this post.
Forgetting the fact that the game has to give lasguns a chance of beating power armour
How much damage do lasguns do in the lore of your mind?
In my mind astartes can walk through an anbsolute hail storm of laser gun fire without losing much more than paint, but humans with lasguns are plenty and astartes are few and difficult to miss. So does a human with a lasgun really have such little chance of breaking through the armour in which case what’s the point in taking the shot.
It also sets out a huge leap in firepower for weapons like plasma or a power swordsthat can, in a single shot, break power armour
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