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If there are any DCM's or mods who are yet to enter a model, Da Silva 'Orde needs you to become a Cybork Nob!

We could also use some regular users to join us as grot oilers and ammo runts. Also, if someone wants to pimp out a truck/battle wagon, if would not say no

I dont think theres any restriction to regular DAKKA users being FlashGits. I know they are based off of nobs, might want to ask Yak or another mod. But if not, then anyone wantin to blow holes in things are more then welcome in da Kustom Killas!

yes there are. there are a lot of DCM only mobs which i find to much. but he you make the rules and we just follow them you know you guys are kind of like GW....... without the whole give me all your monney stuff

disclaimer: to all who don't get it the GW reference was a joke the ammount of DCM only mobs isn't

fatty wrote:yes there are. there are a lot of DCM only mobs which i find too much.

What?
There's exactly 5 "types" that are DCM only, and two of them are pretty much "leaders" taking a founding role for a Mob.

For the folks getting all angsty about who gets to be what...
It's a bit of fun.

There is a fairly minor perk in that bit of fun to folks who have seen fit to make a financial contribution to the upkeep of the site, it was done that way as a thank you from Yakface and Legoburner to the DCMs.

Shock and horror, the DCMs can't be:
Warboss
• Big Mek
• Ghazghkull Thraka
• Mad Dok Grotsnik
• Wazdakka Gutsmek
• Old Zogwort
• Boss Snikrot
• Boss Zagstruk
• Warphead
• Meganob
• Kaptin Badrukk
• Weirdboy
• Mek (leading Burna Boyz or Loota mob)
• Painboy (part of a Nob/Flash Gitz squad)

And yet none of us rioted about it.
The guiding principal behind that and the tiered structure of who gets to be what was to ensure that we didn't just end up with 8 thousand warbosses and no ork boyz.

So our little game has rules.

As with all games, if you don't care for the rules, you are entitled to refrain from participation.







or, suck it up, get some perspective and have a laugh with the rest of us and paint up an ork for this bit of amusement.


The choice is yours!

Well, to be fair MGS I raged that I couldn't be Boss Snikrot.

Silently, of course.

fatty wrote:yes there are. there are a lot of DCM only mobs which i find to much. but he you make the rules and we just follow them you know you guys are kind of like GW....... without the whole give me all your monney stuff

disclaimer: to all who don't get it the GW reference was a joke the ammount of DCM only mobs isn't

Fatty,

Love that you posted the grot, but can you please take the same image you put up and crop it so that you can only see the white background and then repost that picture as your Waaagh Dakka profile pic?





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Platuan4th wrote:
I do indeed. If you'll excuse the blurriness, as it was taken with our old camera before we moved to Colorado. I'll try to get better pictures with my newer camera in natural lighting tomorrow.

I painted it for the old thread as well as a test for my own theoretical Ork army(which was of course going to be a Waaagh Dakka! army), but never got around to actually uploading them as the thread kind of slowed and died off. Despite it only having 2 arms, I run it as a 4 DCCW Dread until I rig up some interchangeable weapons and figure out where I want to place them.

Love the model! Great stuff.

It actually looks like a super-sized Kan to me more than a Dread, so (despite the illegal armament) I think you could totally pull off being the leader for a Kan squadron, but if you want to call it a Deff Dread I'm fine with that too in your particular case.




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Ehsteve wrote:
There are no rules I have been able to find as it's a limited ed. model

Well the basic jist of the Runtbot is very similar to the Killa Kan: grot gets control of a deathmachine and wrecks havoc on the orks unforunate enough to make it onto it's 'to kill' list. Then it goes onto the field and its essentially armoured support same as kanz. The current convention is to use them as Killa Kanz and I'd be willing to get one and use it to lead the killa kanz mob (any grot capable of remotely operating something of that size on the run has to be 'da brains' of some operation). Though technically 2 klaws makes it an illegal kan for WYSIWYG playing purposes, it should make a good enough squadron leader.

I think the best bet would just to have a separate Forgeworld mob of Runtbots that you and anyone else who wants to do a Runtbot would be part of.

Yakface i will post a cropped up pic as soon as i get my hands on my sisters camera. my phone camera fails hard.

@Kan and MGS
i didn't mean to nag about something i just expressed my feelings and if it came out a little bad i am sorry. it was mend to be some constructive critique. hope you could laugh about the GW joke

MeanGreenStompa wrote:So our little game has rules.

Little rules that apparently cost money.

My first thought upon seeing this was "Ah! Runtherd. Pushing around all the little people. Perfect!"

Then I read the rules, and my second thought was "Well feth that."

Guys, relax, it is toy soldiers

jep your right and luckly i did a very funny "cyber"grot he has a laptop and he is surfing on dakkadakka.com

Started work on my Wazdakka stand-in over the weekend. Pics soon, hopefully

My Biker Warboss is actually supposed to represent me on the table, but for this I could build another Flash Git. I don't have the resources for another Battlewagon at the moment.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:So our little game has rules.

Little rules that apparently cost money.

My first thought upon seeing this was "Ah! Runtherd. Pushing around all the little people. Perfect!"

Then I read the rules, and my second thought was "Well feth that."

Wow really? I dont understand why so many people on DAKKA are being such poor sports about something that is suppose to be fun. Whats wrong with making yourself a funny grot, or a very characterful boy, or loota, or burna boy, or one of the MODs ammo runts? Theres tons of things the non DCMs are allowed to be. Again its meant to be fun, so why not partake in some fun for once, instead of complaining and whining?

If anybody wants to be a Cybork boy, I am leading that mob. It's not up on the page yet, but it will be a slugga boy mob, and the name is open to suggestions.

WIP pics.


We are the test subjects for the Cybork Nob Mob, so we get to look a bit weirder. I appear to have a combi-flamer, don't worry though it's borked and only has the same power output as a slugga!

He's going to have some yellow/orange details over the black parts. Mostly rusted looking.

That looks great MoD

H.B.M.C. wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:So our little game has rules.

Little rules that apparently cost money.

My first thought upon seeing this was "Ah! Runtherd. Pushing around all the little people. Perfect!"

Then I read the rules, and my second thought was "Well feth that."

So... you're problem is that you dont' like actually being one of hte little people?

It seems that you have no problem with hierarchy, just your place in it.

Remember that a lot of DCMs were gifted their membership by other DCMs. Because, you know, they contribute stuff that is appreciated...

I'm actually surprised that H.B.M.C. is not a DCM or something else by this point.

I think that given the size of the DCM cadre, it's hard to really paint it either as a pretentious elite, or a privilege group of benefactors.

Simply put, there's a lot of us that value Dakka enough, and have the means, to pay for use.

Polonius wrote:I think that given the size of the DCM cadre, it's hard to really paint it either as a pretentious elite, or a privilege group of benefactors.

Simply put, there's a lot of us that value Dakka enough, and have the means, to pay for use.

And most DCM's are nutters.

That I will agree with


And I could be wrong here, but wasnt HBMC a DCM years ago? I seem to remember he was once upon a time.

then why arn't i a DCM??? i am the biggest lunatic thats still out of an asylum.

there is one thing i dont get. it's not to that i am a sore loser or not a good sport.

but why do you want to become a ammo runt..... then you are a useless model that will be removed once you get in the way. is it just me or do you guys think that there will be no one who wants to be that or can identify with that role.

I think every model from the codex is included as an option, so it's less a matter of thinking people will want to persue a role as allowing it if they wish...

Polonius wrote:I think that given the size of the DCM cadre, it's hard to really paint it either as a pretentious elite, or a privilege group of benefactors.

Simply put, there's a lot of us that value Dakka enough, and have the means, to pay for use.

So you're saying it's time for me to shell out the $25 again to be a DCM? It's been awhile now, I suppose I need to contribute again...

Eh, it's basically a way of not feeling like I owe Dakka anything. I can use it as I please, contribute as I please, and walk away when I please. I pay for upkeep, so I'm not mooching.

I don't want to ever feel like I "owe" anything for using this site.

fatty wrote:then why arn't i a DCM??? i am the biggest lunatic thats still out of an asylum.

there is one thing i dont get. it's not to that i am a sore loser or not a good sport.

but why do you want to become a ammo runt..... then you are a useless model that will be removed once you get in the way. is it just me or do you guys think that there will be no one who wants to be that or can identify with that role.

Well yea in game terms, an ammo runt is a throw away, but this is supposed to be in good fun, so if you were say, Yaks ammo runt, you could go redonkulous with your build. Think Rambo meets lowly Grot. You know, bandanna, big ass shootas in each arm, cigar maybe? I dunno, something fun. Not something you look at and think " I wonder what Ill use to scrape that off my boot"

this is a cool idea.

I'd love to do a Madboy-styled slugga boy (I haven't been posting here long enough to have any claim of a "personality" on the site, but I've always carried a wound over the removal of mobs of batgak orks from the codex.), would this be a permissible theme for a mob? Otherwise I'll work the model into one of the established mobs.

I think it'd be funny if we insist that any Dakka-ite with less than 1000 posts who wishes to participate should paint up a Grot.

I'm working on mine. I've an RT era ork in power armor I'm working on.

Here, a WIP snap of the Tankbusta Nob:

Polonius wrote:I think that given the size of the DCM cadre, it's hard to really paint it either as a pretentious elite, or a privilege group of benefactors.

Simply put, there's a lot of us that value Dakka enough, and have the means, to pay for use.

While I certainly appreciate that viewpoint, if for no other reason than the site would have a hard time running if it weren't for user donations, I do want to make sure that its clear that users can certainly contribute to Dakka in a variety of ways that are all super important and all really valued.

This fun little exercise is in no way meant to be a secret tool to get people to become DCMs...in fact, unlike some other sites which routinely try to force or entice you into becoming a paid member, we go out of our way to not do this by trying to provide as many of our features/services to ALL members as much as humanly possible, and beyond that, I don't use any kind of marketing or gimmickry to try to 'sell' the DCM position.

We have always tried to make the DCM status a small way of saying 'thank you' to those who have the ability and desire to donate towards the site's operation as opposed to people 'buying' the DCM status and feeling like we need to provide something to them in return.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:So our little game has rules.

Little rules that apparently cost money.

My first thought upon seeing this was "Ah! Runtherd. Pushing around all the little people. Perfect!"

Then I read the rules, and my second thought was "Well feth that."

Again, the goal really wasn't trying to get you to pay money (become a DCM) or screw over your freedom to be creative. But the concept wasn't just for everyone to paint up a random model with no restrictions because that would be a very different idea...and let's be honest, we'd end up with tons and tons of Warbosses, Nobs, Runtherders, etc, and very few boyz, because that's just how people are.

Instead, the idea was to create a virtual 'army' and if you're making an army then you need to have some sort of hierarchy and since it is based on Dakka the ONLY real way to do that is to split it down the lines of admin/mods/DCMs/regular users.

So I tried to carve out a little spot for each section while still leaving plenty of options open for anyone. The key is to not take this very serious (because its not). While DCMs may be the 'Nobs' in the virtual army, its only because there are enough DCMs compared to non-DCMs that it fits within the context of a Dakka 'army' that they're Nobs. In reality, a DCM obviously doesn't have any superior 'rank' to a standard user (whatever that would be), but within the virtual army its just a way to help identify which users are DCMs and which users aren't.

So why not just open the imagination up a little bit and I think you can find tons of inspiration if you want. How about making up a squighound model that's wearing a commissar cap for a Runtherder? That would be AWESOME. Or you could be a grot assistant (again wearing a commissar cap) for a Nob or even me (I need an ammo runt for my Warboss model), etc.

Again, the end result is not supposed to be some sort of draconian identifier of how useful X user is compared to user Y, but just an excuse to get together and create virtual mobs together to make a virtual army.

Soladrin wrote:Here, a WIP snap of the Tankbusta Nob:

Great WIP pics guys, but please don't forget to post them in the actual Waaagh Dakka discussion thread (you can find the link in the first post in this thread if you don't know where it is).