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**Bignutter**

Well if you haven't already seen the news...

basically with this change approaching in the future I thought it'd be good to discuss what you feel have been the best bits of dakka over the past 10 years without clogging up the other thread.

I remember coming across Dakka quite randomly, it turns out almost 8 years ago and lurking away, before finally making an account to comment on rumours of necrons getting an army list (man that makes me feel old) From there Dakka became the site I visited every day. Even today it is the first site i check after my email despite the fact I've fallen into being abit of a lurker.

I guess my best memory of dakka was the friendships I feel i've made, I even ended up being a part of the OT crew when we took over the 40k collecting card game part of the forum (the thread titles still make me giggle)

So again- a huge thankyou to Russ for this great place for the hobby and friendships

How about everyone else? Best bits?

**malfred**

*Pours a caffeinated beverage onto the street*

Barph's Titan

PenguinDude defeating the Fatman

Task naming a computer program at work after me....oops tmi....

**mauleed**

I just miss Chaplain Vang.

**beyond.wudge**

My best memory from this site was reading the battle report where Mauleed got snapped by Jts' 3rd Ed Tau. That has always stayed in my mind as potentially the best battle report I have ever read. No offence Mauleed, but being a Tau player at the time seeing the Tau beat the best Marine player on Dakka was something to behold.

**Kid_Kyoto**

The invasion and subjegation of the warp.

The old OT board...

Barphs Titan...

Barphs transformer...

Anything by Migs...

A lot of the chain stories, Warhammer High School, Bloodstorm Ravenblade, the Space Emepror and the unfortunate fan-fic crossover...

I...

Custom titles and discovering new ones...

Actually going to Dakka, TWICE! great store.

So many hours of lost work time...

Checking dakka at work, then at grad school, then at home... 10,000+ posts!

**tegeus-Cromis**

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**thegrognard**

Working for GW during the day and beotching about them on Dakka at night. Dave Taylor got me fired for that.

**Abadabadoobaddon**

I remember this one time when Triggerbaby wrote something really funny. And I laughed.

**brotherskeeper74**

Posted By beyond.wudge on 07/12/2007 6:50 AM

My best memory from this site was reading the battle report where Mauleed got snapped by Jts' 3rd Ed Tau. That has always stayed in my mind as potentially the best battle report I have ever read. No offence Mauleed, but being a Tau player at the time seeing the Tau beat the best Marine player on Dakka was something to behold.

**malfred**

Pdude has endured trials and heartbreak, and we're still not through with him.

He chizzles at the OT-izzle.

**Hellfury**

The humor that led to the OT zone in the first place. From Craig Gallants post regarding communism in the miniatures world, to Task's GW bobblehead Gifs.

the monster just grew from there.

I love 40K, but things such as that cemented my loyalty to a place that looked on the occasional humor such as that with a good eye.

That is, until it grew out of control, and O.B.GYN Phanobi had to take matters into his own hands.

**Crimson Devil**

Dakka being called a "Shark-pit" by GW and watching the occasional burning of the trolls.

**Dice Monkey**

Drew Riggio whining, Snord posting, Bugswarm being Dakka's ancient primordial magma troll whose every post caused someone to burst into white hot flames, the OT cowboys finally getting busted in the CCG section after a 6 month reign of terror, Migs, Insaniak, and Barph showing off their latest projects. I also have to mention PD making fat bloke implode and throw a fit on that other site for daring to not perform fellatio on him.

**bejustorbedead**

Barph's phenomenal modelling projects.

Snord's Orks, both the models and the tactics articles.

Clouseau's awesome Pink Panther Space Marines, and his disappearing with peoples' money.

Drew flying off the handle, utterly convinced GW was out to screw him because of how they painted the Iron Hands' bolters for their Index Astartes article.

**mauleed**

Posted By beyond.wudge on 07/12/2007 6:50 AM

My best memory from this site was reading the battle report where Mauleed got snapped by Jts' 3rd Ed Tau. That has always stayed in my mind as potentially the best battle report I have ever read. No offence Mauleed, but being a Tau player at the time seeing the Tau beat the best Marine player on Dakka was something to behold.

**Green Bloater**

mauleed best Marine player ever... LOL!

- G

**mauleed**

No need to limit that statement to marines. I placed higher with guard as well.

**Broon**

Hmmm, a lot of the good ones have been taken, so I'll go for Kironor Dread or the Forgeworld river sections (though my initial thought was JTS' win over Ed Maule).

**Clayman**

hmmm...the previous black and green board.
-The ork smileys (my msn loves them)
-Kid Kyoto
-All the works I've seen
-Underthecouch.net works,fine and simple conversions.
-You guys
-finding dakkadakka in the first place,i dont remember how but its the first thing i found when i started 40k
-The lack of Defiler-to-titan conversions...im tired of seeing them

**Broon**

That green net board sucked even worse than this one.

I expected more replies to this thread, seems that there really is no-one left from back then.

**pnweerar**

That snotty bugger from Bartertown going on about how he was a federal librarian.

And everyone making fun of him for being a federal librarian.

**malfred**

What probably happens is that people say something someone else wants
to say.

**tegeus-Cromis**

Clouseau disappeared with people's money? Yikes.

The reverse Q&A thread was pretty fun too. For a while.

**whitedragon**

The never ending survivor game...

But seriously, everything about dakka is a good memory. Even the bad ones.

**Hordini**

Old stuff:

Clouseau's awesome terminator conversions.

Also Clouseau's tanks. He could made pink look good on a AFV.

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Snord's posts.

Green Marines.

Drew Riggio and his bouncing ball skeleton avatar.

The Phantom Lord and the original OT board.

Titans

People getting "plaided" (this may have been more of an OT thing, it's been a long time.)

(And Clouseau disappeared with people's money? Someone please tell me that story, I hadn't heard that!)

New stuff:
Mauleed fanclub (BigChris and WhiteDragon)

The OT Brigade is still going strong.

Portent-fugees.

**Broon**

Search clouseau on the OT board for more info.

**malfred**

Was it when he was making a miniature modeling magazine?

I bought the first one, and got the disc just fine...

**Jester**

Best memory of Dakka? Mountain Drew and his Mini-Me Ed Maule, Snord before he became a reknowned pit fighter in Kowloon Walled City, Task and Bugswarm fighting like wet cats trapped in a burlap sack, the cross-dresser Daemon Lord Angron, MangaMonkey and Jojo, Dakka's two monkeys, That one time I told my therapist that I was going nuts because I thought Kid Kyoto and Abadabadoobaddon were the same person but couldn't prove it, and Malfred. Always Malfred.

Thanks for the memories, Dakka.

**Pariah Press**

Mauleed's unapologetic superiority. What can I say, the man is like unto a god!

KidKyoto's Previews.

(BTW, can anyone provide a link to the Mauleed vs. JTS batrep? I'm very curious.)

**Cruentus**

Honkeybro... summoned from wherever, whenever a thread needed closure *sniff*