More Dakka: Difference between revisions

Line 3:

{{quote|''"'''[[Trope Namer|Dakka]]'''": [[Warhammer 40000|Ork slang]] for rapid fire capability, based on the onomatopoeia for automatic guns shooting. You need moar of it. No exceptions.''|[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Dakka 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 [[Mook]]s at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire required 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 [[Five Rounds Rapid|normally ineffective]]—even if each shot only does [[Scratch Damage]], it will succumb to a [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]] eventually.

'''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 [[Mook]]s at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire required 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 [[Five Rounds Rapid|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 [[Spent Shells Shower|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.

Line 37:

* One episode of ''[[City Hunter]]'' has Kaori causing destruction and mayhem in a storage complex over an orphanage. With [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Big Guns]], Grenades, and Rocket Launchers. Never mind that [[A-Team Firing|she missed all the bad guys]].

* Hoshimura Makina in ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'' totes around a brace of MAC-11/9mm machine pistols.

* Arnage of Huckebein from ''[[~~Magical Girl~~ Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. In the first battle we see her in, she was targetted by approximately [[Beam Spam|twenty five million energy bullets]]. She responded by activating her Divider, which comprised of [[Gatling Good|a pair of gatling guns strapped together]] and a multiple rocket launcher. She then proceeded to [[Shoot the Bullet|counter the entire]] [[Beam Spam]] barrage with a combination of More Dakka and [[Macross Missile Massacre]].

* Arnage of Huckebein from ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. In the first battle we see her in, she was targetted by approximately [[Beam Spam|twenty five million energy bullets]]. She responded by activating her Divider, which comprised of [[Gatling Good|a pair of gatling guns strapped together]] and a multiple rocket launcher. She then proceeded to [[Shoot the Bullet|counter the entire]] [[Beam Spam]] barrage with a combination of More Dakka and [[Macross Missile Massacre]].

* The "multiple-fire rifle" from ''[[Lone Wolf and Cub]]'' definitely counts. Since the setting is in the Edo period, the other gunsmiths aren't able to make more than matchlock rifles with [[Bling Bling Bang|excessive decoration]], one character pushes gun technology by making a man-portable volley gun. It's a BFG with several barrels that fire at once, creating a shotgun-like spread weapon. The main character makes use of the gun several times, each time to devastating effect.

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' contains examples of this, most notably Attenborough's creation of a weapon that fires on ''every'' point in ''space time''. The series [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann/Awesome|CMoA page]] claims this is enough dakka, but is proven wrong as the movie adaptations contains even more dakka.