More Dakka/Sandbox



""Dakka": Ork slang for rapid fire capability, based on the onomatopoeia for automatic guns shooting. You need moar of it. No exceptions."

- 1d4chan on dakka

More Dakka is a form of Spam Attack with bullets -- the art of solving problems by firing as many rounds at them as possible. Improbable Aiming Skills are all very well and good, but sometimes you just need to throw a wall of bullets at the target -- perhaps your foe can Dodge the Bullet, or you're up against a whole army of Mooks at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire require for more dakka all by themselves, but using a whole bunch of slower-firing guns works too. More dakka can even work against targets where conventional attacks are normally ineffective -- even if each shot only does Scratch Damage, it will succumb to a Death of a Thousand Cuts eventually.

Gatling Good and Guns Akimbo are common ways of achieving more dakka, and you can expect to see gratuitous camera shots devoted to torrents of shell casings produced by the volume of fire. Unfortunately, more dakka has a good chance of accomplishing little or nothing, in the case of A-Team Firing or if the shooters are graduates of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. The Gunslinger may specialize in more dakka.

A Sub-Trope of Spam Attack. Contrast Improbable Aiming Skills, when a character uses amazing accuracy instead of volume of fire.