Posted: 2026-04-06 11:59:07
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By Big Mac
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Posted: 2026-04-06 10:59:07
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By Shakalooloo
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Posted: 2026-04-06 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-05 10:59:07
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By Melcavuk
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Posted: 2026-04-05 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-04 18:59:07
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By 2boltpistols
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Posted: 2026-04-04 17:59:07
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By RAFF
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Posted: 2026-04-04 16:59:07
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Forum post by ingtaer, 36 responses at time of this post.
Hi all,
We are in the preliminary stages of settling up the second edition of Bac-con, once again to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity in honour of Paul Sawyer.
The thread for thd first edition can be found here - https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/814703.page
I would appreciate any ideas people have for this edition, the initial thoughts are to be having it again at Firestorm Games in Cardiff sometime around April, with a few different games being played with an overarching narrative to tie together.
As before this will be a light hearted meet and play event with time for a couple of games and a raffle to raise funds for a worthy cause.
I welcome any input, thoughts or ideas.
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Posted: 2026-04-04 15:59:07
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Forum post by Da Boss, 36 responses at time of this post.
There was a conversation in the AoS rumours thread about how Chaos is written in 40K I thought was interesting but I didn't want to derail it (I've been derailing too much lately!).
The discussion was essentially that the Imperium is supposed to be the worst regime imaginable, but various writers have made Chaos much, much worse. It's gotten more and more extreme over the years, to the point where worshipping Chaos is obviously extremely evil AND obviously extremely dumb.
I think for me the epitome of this was in the Horus Heresy series, where the Chaos side are written as fools for most of the books. The Loyalists are always really right, and especially in Dan Abnett books they're mowing down traitors left and right. It gets even worse in the Siege when most Chaos characters become non-characters and are just a stupid, possessed horde that all break and run at the end when their warp-juice goes away.
I found this to be the worst aspect of the Heresy, but it seems to be the unironic position of the BL authors that Chaos is completely evil and Chaos worshippers are all complete fools who are definitively in the wrong.
This has the effect of making the Imperium RIGHT to do all it's oppressive crap, and making them tragic good guys who are doing what they must. I've often seen fans making this point and referencing the books as proof.
As always in these sorts of threads, I have to clarify that I understand what the "canon" is and I'm not arguing about that. I'm saying that the canon is BAD, that the writers that wrote it have made the setting worse by being so one sided.
I think it's acceptable in an Imperium POV story to show Chaos without nuance. It doesn't really bother me when it's shown that way in a Gaunt's Ghosts novel for example - I think it can be quite effective. But in something like the Heresy which was showing both sides, I'd expect the...
Post continues at https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/818683.page
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Posted: 2026-04-04 14:59:07
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Forum post by Overread, 36 responses at time of this post.
Tis the season for building projects and I thought it would be neat to have a bit of a closer theme than just "build anything and everything."
having had a long love of the Epic scale for years (heck its what got me into wargaming back in the Titan Legions days) and seeing Mad Doc building up his legion I thought it would be cool to have a little bit of a building challenge for the year. A chance to build legions, race each other, keep pace, challenge and grow (tiny) huge armies!
So I put it to you Dakka - anyone can take part; step up and declare yourself and lets see if we can turn money into sprue and sprue into models to wage epic mass warfare!
Myself I'll be entering with the Solar Auxillia! Photos to come once I dig them all out of the various moving and packing boxes they are hiding in
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Posted: 2026-04-04 13:59:07
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By Mothsniper
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Posted: 2026-04-04 12:59:07
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By Bacxaber
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Posted: 2026-04-04 11:59:07
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By Captain Brown
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Posted: 2026-04-04 10:59:07
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By JoshInJapan
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Posted: 2026-04-04 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-03 10:59:07
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Taken with a Panasonic DMC-ZX1
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Posted: 2026-04-03 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-02 10:59:07
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By RAFF
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Posted: 2026-04-02 09:59:07
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Posted: 2026-04-01 13:59:07
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Unknown creator
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