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alt title(s): Bullet Barrage; Dakka; Extreme Rapid Fire
Never enuff dakka.

"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.

Improbable Aiming Skills are all very well, but sometimes — perhaps because your foe can Dodge The Bullet, perhaps because you need to mow down a whole army of Mooks at once, perhaps because you just really, really like the sound of your gun blasting off — you need to throw a wall of bullets at the target. Modern automatic weapons can achieve rates of fire that can only be described as "bullet spam", and the more guns you're using, the more dakka you can put out. After all, There Is No Kill Like Overkill.

Accuracy is an optional extra.

Hard to achieve with a single, rifle-sized weapon, though bonus points for screaming at the top of your lungs as you empty out a whole magazine at the target, or gratuitous camera shots devoted to torrents of shell cases spewing out of the gun. Getting More Dakka is often the reasoning behind a lot of BFGs. May be used to overcome stylistic inaccuracy. If you lack enough barrels but are a commander with reserves, feel free to substitute lots and lots of men.

Gatling Good and Guns Akimbo are common ways of achieving this (and if you can swing it, Gatling Guns Akimbo). Can make up for the troops in question being students of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy... though not always. Distinct from A Team Firing, which concerns the employment of dakka to little effect. More Dakka is both a means to an end and an end in itself, and it can easily mean the difference between a survival horror game and an action game. (Action, by its very nature, comes with More Dakka.) When The Gunslinger specializes in Dakka, he's the Type B version of that character type.

Should not be confused with Baka, as there is definitely such a thing as Enuff Baka.

A Sub Trope of Impossibly Cool Weapon, in the sense that most weapons that can do this would be impossible to cool.

The bullet form of the Spam Attack. Missiles and lasers come as Macross Missile Massacre and Beam Spam, respectively. In settings that pre-date gunpowder or where Fantasy Gun Control is in effect, Automatic Crossbows can be used instead. For explosions, compare BFB.

AN' THERE AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such thing as too much dakka. Say there is, and me Squiggoth's eatin' tonight!

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