THE DTC40K DISCORD IS LIVE!
The DTC40K discord is now live! A better way to interact, let us explain why!
Discord is like this, but online.
The DTC40K community started a few years ago with a WhatsApp group for the 15 players looking to go to the Amsterdam Battle Brothers tournaments. a few years ago. Over the years it grew to an international channel with over 150 participants! It was a great time! We had daily conversations going, and during COVID-19, it helped us all stay connected. We rallied together to make our magazine, we had a painting competition going on, but most importantly, we became this big group of hobby buddies, and going to events became a lot easier since you already knew each other and way more fun! So why change if it was so great?
Vik is a well-known player from England yet we already knew each other through discord before we had our first game ever!
With more than 150 people in one WhatsApp group, it’s hard to keep track of what’s going on. If there is any time that you don’t check your phone for three hours for whatever reason there might be more than 200 missed messages from the group There are also a lot of side conversations going on, some of which you are a part, some you don’t want to know about. With all this noise it’s hard to pick out the important pieces that you’re interested in and that could help you with your next battle, tournament or army.
Besides this, I am a firm believer that constant messaging and the need to stay up to date can be a negative on your mental health. I’m not going to pretend to be a guru or tell you how to live your life or keep track of your mobile phone use, but if I see an opportunity where I can make a positive impact on how we communicate in our hobby scene and it helps people not continuously staring at their phones, I will try it!
Discord is the perfect tool for a community to flourish and grow beyond our current limits set by WhatsApp. With multiple sections and channels, you can easily distinguish subjects from each other, guaranteeing you to find the content you are looking for! Those channels are searchable and you can “pin” certain important posts so they are easy to find. Feel like having an actual talk? you can do that too with multiple speech channels. The other big benefit of Discord is the option to stream your TTS game. Since Covid, TTS (playing Warhammer online with your opponent) has exploded on the scene and most of the top players use this game to test and improve their skills and army lists. On our Discord you can find a great tutorial set up by Team NL’s vice-captain Florian Den Uijl and there are enough players who are more than willing to help you out with your first steps on TTS. I believe that all of this will result in more quality content, less pressure to keep up to date with all the messaging (you just follow the channels you’re interested in) and the opportunity to make our community grow even further.
Show of your freahly painted models!
The discord is live, I’ve explained why I’m a firm believer in this step, so what’s next? Right now we have 6 sections open for everyone, these are our core sections and should cover most subjects you could think of, Hobby, events, general 40K, TTS, off-topic and the important stuff like rules and announcements. I can’t tell too much right now but we will be having a TTS league tournament starting soon and we’re working on a hobby/painting competition as well. Of course, there will be prizes to win with these events.
With this post we will also launch our DTC40K Patreon. With upgrades and expansion plans in the making and the work involved in running the DTC ranking we need your support.
As a DTC40K Patreon, we will include a number of bonuses for your support, amongst them are gift vouchers for DTC events, dice and special access to our discord. We will be offering 3 tiers of subscriptions, and 2 of those tiers will grant you access to hidden channels on our discord. In those channels, we dive more into competitive gaming with faction channels, list-discussions and a rules questions section where we dive deeper into the technical bits. In this section, you will also find most of the Dutch WTC team members/prospects and this fine group of gents know what they’re talking about!
Team NL 2023
TLDR: The DTC40K is working hard on improving and expanding our endeavours, to bring the best of the hobby together and explore the competitive scene in the Netherlands! Below here we have added 2 links so you can jump straight into our discord or check out our Patreon if you are considering supporting the DTC40K platform. We really hope you join and support us! As always, send us a message if you have any feedback or suggestions.