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I'm just curious as to how people would rate Dakkadakka compared to other wargaming websites. I am a member of a number of them and have had differant expieriences with all, some seem to be home to nothing but uptight players who take everything too seriously and others are friendly and welcoming. So far Dakkadakka has been one of the best sites I've joined and I've enjoyed my time here. There are quiet a few creative members and ideas on the site.

So how does Dakka compare to other wargaming sites? particularly those sites concerning 40k and WHFB.

Note: This is not a topic to bash other websites so please no specific names just examples. All opinions and experiences are welcome and are open to discussion but in a mature manner.

Dakka tends to be more focused on the american wargaming experience. Which is a bit different in its competitive focus compared to the euro-zone. Not to say there aren't non-US people here but its not like warseer or LO which has a massive euro posting base

The 40k scene is very good and has a lot of information but the WFB sections are quite lacking imo compared to other sites, seems only a few posts a day in the tactics section for example.

I've always used dakka as a discussion area for tournaments and rumors. As usual, ignore the rule lawyer sections in all forums.. they're all just as bad as the next

Well, I have always allocated different roles to different sites so that I make the most out of each one in accourdance to what I think it does best.

Astronomican is my home turf.
The Tyranid Hive had the best General Board (until we made our own site)
Warseer and Bolter & Chainsword have the best WIP blogs
Troll Forged has lots of sculpting stuff for me to look at.

And Dakka Dakka? I go here because I am a avid fan of Internet Drama, and you'll find me surfing sites such as Encyclopedia Dramatica, YouTube and DeviantArt in search of it. Dakka Dakka is where I tend to go for Wargaming related drama, and so far it has produced lots of golden material that I simply wouldn't find in any other forums (sans 40k blogs, which is on a whole different level compared to mere forum drama). I have, however, come to also appreciate the WIP and News boards, but reading drama is primarily why I first decided to frequent here. The whole deal with Ex Illis for example was very exciting, and I anticipate the next thread with much glee.

Dakka Dakka is my home on the weekday morining/afternoons.
40K Online is my home on the weekday nights.

Bolter and Chainsword/Warseer are whenever I feel like it.

DakkaDakka is more of a 'throwdown' zone for me.
While 40KO is more for...'fun' I guess, I've grown alot closer to the posters there than hear, not to so I don't enjoy the posters here, but there's alot more one-on-one over at 40KO than here, but that's just me.

B&C has alot of gems in terms of articles and specific tactics/strat topics.

Warseer is just another resource to bounce ideas, but I don't post there too often.

Sanctjud wrote:

B&C has alot of gems in terms of articles and specific tactics/strat topics.

Doesn't that need "if you're a Marine player" appended onto ti?

Warseer is the worst popular 40k site around. The posting quality is very low and it attracts more insipid discussions. Strangely enough they get the most and most reliable rumors though, so every so often I'll brave that site for a moment to see if anything interesting is coming up.

Bolter and Chainsword is fine for Marine discussions, but all the "Welcome to the Fang brother, have an ale" weird roleplaying gets to be a bit too much. I left there because I don't just want to talk about Marines, and the aforementioned roleplaying.

Dakka is the best of the bunch, but there's still some posters and posting habits here I don't like. There are some really cool posters here though, and the site is well laid out. There are some better places to have Warhams discussions out there, but none with quite so active a user base.

I find Dakka more interesting as it has a wider variety to the other two forums I'm on, B&C and Ulthuan.net though the latter is mainly because it isn't a very active forum.

terribletrygon wrote:The whole deal with Ex Illis for example was very exciting, and I anticipate the next thread with much glee.

I do too.
There's no drama like dakkadakka drama!
Also, Dakkadakka is the cool place for cool people.

And what about in comparison to sites such as Librarium-Online, Advancedtautactica, Tau-online and Bell of Lost Souls?

I personally enjoy the fact that dakka dakka seems to have a much higher expectations of its users. i.e. most users use correct grammar and spelling. Most flaming, if any, is usually tame(ish). The censorship of no swear words inproves these forums greatly. The orkmoticons are a great little quirk. And the part where highlighting an acronym explains it? Best idea ever.

Dakka is home.

Dakka used to be like the Wild West, you only came here if you had really, really thick skin and knew what you were talking about. It was the home of the serious tournament players.

It's way more chill now than it was, by order of magnitude. It used to be a verbal battleground. I liked it, but after some adjustment pains, the new Dakka has grown on me.

You still get a lot of the best tournament players here and this is a great place for tournament info and to study the metagame.

The quality of the tactics advice and list critiques has gone downhill, IMO, but I think that is mostly due to the higher quantity of posters we now have. The good advice tends to get diluted a lot. This used to be where you came to hone a tournament list to a razor's edge.

Warseer=rumors. The advice their on tactics and what not is garbage. They have a big, good community though, and are the most active boards as far as I know.

B&C=fluff and miniatures pictures. They are big, big time fluff oriented there and the role play stuff as mentioned is heavily emphasized. Too fluffy for me to post, but I read stuff there and go for information on cool marine stuff.

BoLS=news and they have a decent forum. BoLS is a cool place to get the rumors and news if you don't like to peruse all the other sites. I like the opinion pieces and I write for BoLS as well, so I had to shamelessly plug myself!

The Wasteland=crazyness. It's a bunch of old dakka posters that went and created an anything goes forum that talks about everything from disgusting sexual fetishes to the finer points of the latest tournament metagame. Only go there if you aren't easily offended, it's not a place that gives or asks for any quarter.

The other sites tend to focus on specific races or factions. There are some good boards out there, but for me, Dakka is home field.

Really it just takes some looking to find the right fit for your personality. Dakka is one of the bigger forums and you can easily hang out here and get everything you need. Well, the Fantasy side, while having really high quality information, is not super active. But for 40K, without a doubt, this is a great forum to hang out in.

used to go to 40k terra. now rouge market, kinda shifted to trading and selling. a bunch of old faces disappeared so traffic isnt too high these days. also sometimes go to the warhammer forum but thats mostly uk so small traffic when i'm on (plus its more Fantasy orientated). then theres /tg/, the traditional games board of 4chan. YES THAT 4CHAN. one of the largest cesspools of the internet, but it was fun as heck past all the trolling and flaming. cant go there now for unforeseen reasons

reason why I'm on dakka dakka? well I needed a new place to talk about warhammmer/etc and after hearing things like "whineseer" and stuff, I didnt recall too much negatives from Dakka, so here I am!

In all honesty, I mostly stick to the Traditional Games board on 4chan. Laugh if you will, but there's a lot of creativity and discussion there that goes beyond the tournament-heavy approach of Dakka and the creepy roleplaying of B&C. Of course there'll be idiots who sometimes wander in from a less civilised boards, but for the most part it's a friendly and fun place.

Cheese Elemental wrote:In all honesty, I mostly stick to the Traditional Games board on 4chan. Laugh if you will, but there's a lot of creativity and discussion there that goes beyond the tournament-heavy approach of Dakka and the creepy roleplaying of B&C. Of course there'll be idiots who sometimes wander in from a less civilised boards, but for the most part it's a friendly and fun place.

*insert brofist here

Cheese Elemental wrote:In all honesty, I mostly stick to the Traditional Games board on 4chan. Laugh if you will...

OK - will do!

And before it happens (and not to say it will as the restraint to this point has been exceptional!), remember that we really don't go for slagging off other boards here on Dakka.

Point out the differences and all that, but stay civil!

/Tg/ was the best a few years ago. I stick around on Dakka because of the discussions, and of cource the oppurtunity to poke fun at those who take the game a tad too seriously.

Top rate toy solder drama here on dakka. Makes for some interesting reading. Other sites are sterile and kinda boring.

Always someone with poked out lip on dakka!

There is only war!

Great source of GW news and discussion, and the hobby sections are a good source of inspiration.

The best 40K site imho.

Of course that comes with a price: GW fanboi-ism sometimes gets a little thick when it comes to discussing other games/companies, but thats par for the course...


My only organizational/operational gripe:
I think the mods could be a little more consistent and even-handed with moderation: sometimes they let some individuals run rampant in threads while stomping on others for far less in same thread. Very frustrating to try to figure out what is and isn't allowed from thread to thread and poster to poster at times...

Dakka's far better in that while it is biased a bit towards 40k, it's still a serious forum for every game out there. In particular the PP forums are full of people ready to pounce when you so much as mention GW.

/tg/ certainly has gone downhill, but that's to be expected once everyone knows about it, and it's still the best place to find a lot of things. Most of the userbase though is rather...slow and/or uninformed, with a sprinkling of very, very good Anons.

Dakka certainly is the place for strong opinions, drama, and competitive mentality, tactics discussion here are great, but lots of derpiness and butthurt too. Warseer I feel is the best place for news, rumors and project logs. Tactics on Warseer are hit and miss. The IG and SoB tactica threads are great. Others range from mediocre, to drama filled (Tyranids) to wankfests (SW tactica). Warseer also has a rather large portion of relatively new and/or inexperienced people. Bolter and Chainsword tends to be a little awkward, and overly sensitive sometimes, especially when you point out that Marines just aren't able to be the best at everything all the time. Bell of Lost Souls has come good people and often interesting articles, but at the same time I find that some of the "staff" come across as rather conceited, and they are the source of most unwarranted and terrible internet hype, lots of sensationalist Journalism, they seem very concerned with becoming *the* news and rumor place over at all costs.

Personally, I frequently lurk and visit Dakka solely because the News/Rumors forum allows for non-GW updates.

I love dakka dakka as it isn't army based, but I am at home also at warpshadow as it has a glorious nid community! SO MUCH TALENT. I would name users but I don't want to brag to market people over. But if you want a specialist nid forum, warpshadow is a great place with ever so friendly people. However, getting posts in modeling threads has been a problem for me at both forums but I don't think I will ever get away from that.

I've seen guys post their ideas of worlds/sci fi on /tg/ that deserves publishing. There are some real creative minds and writing talent to be found there. Just saying.

Brother SRM wrote:Warseer is the worst popular 40k site around. The posting quality is very low and it attracts more insipid discussions. Strangely enough they get the most and most reliable rumors though, so every so often I'll brave that site for a moment to see if anything interesting is coming up.

Bolter and Chainsword is fine for Marine discussions, but all the "Welcome to the Fang brother, have an ale" weird roleplaying gets to be a bit too much. I left there because I don't just want to talk about Marines, and the aforementioned roleplaying.

Dakka is the best of the bunch, but there's still some posters and posting habits here I don't like. There are some really cool posters here though, and the site is well laid out. There are some better places to have Warhams discussions out there, but none with quite so active a user base.

This. QFT

I prefer dakka to the forum I was originally apart of because it only because its members were the few people who went to the same LGS as I do, meaning that updates are agonizingly slow. Other forums I've seen were either A) Too complicated for me to use, B) Only showed threads to members to prevent lurking, or C) Had too many threads dissimilar to my interest besides memes. I too like the drama and humor from Dakka as it has kept me lurking this website at school for a year.

I was a B and C regular for years, but I left off when I stopped hobbying for a good 5 year stretch. In the interim I sold the DA army I had been building and painting to display standard and when I got back into it, my interests had expanded beyond just marine minis, so I came to dakka. IMO it has the best mix of rumors, hobby, tutorials and subject of the bunch.

Warpshadow seems great for nids though, and Warseer was great for rumors till Brim passed :(...

Only thing that bugs me about Dakka is not being able to rip morons a new one, as I am extremely witty and full of hate ,
Then again, that's a quick road to killing the good discussions too.

So yay Dakka overall Best!

Yeah I like DakkaDakka too because it is full of goofballs, drama, leniency and good debaters. I use to go to "Whineseer" but there's was too much whining, everything seemed more uptight and a lot of the posters aren't as fun as Dakkaites mind

you there's also a lot of intellectual debate in the forums which I like, but it doesn't seem to have the same excitement as DakkaDakka forums.

I pronounce BoLS phonetically as "balls" and I think that's pretty indicative of it's quality. They had a huge two part front page article about a girl gamer and fawned over her like a godess. Their rumors are taken from other sites and are up to a week late. [redacted by mod] is an idiot, and posts too often. Great painter though.

I hang around a few Warhammer threads on SA and people there are pretty damn cool.

Dakka is a nice place. I used to just lurk here and Warseer was my main board, but one day last spring I found warseer blocked at work by a new web security program. Apparently, because the site has games in the header, it must be some evil computer game......

Not many people have mentioned the functionality of the boards. Things like the gallery, article section, polls, store finder, etc make this site feel like more of a 'community' than just a load of people posting on the same board. It's also laid out a lot better and policed a lot better to ensure this community spirit stays.