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So I saw some one loading a few of the old metal deff dreads into a tube sock to swing around like a maniac at their next game.

They informed me this is called a "dread sock", which is an old school term for when players supposedly beat some one with the after-for-mentioned sock (full of metal dreads, the type dosent matter ) for , cheating, shenanigans or what have you.

Is the dreadsock a real thing or am I being deceived ?

I've heard of it a few times. Never of anyone actually using it. Was the old metal marine dreads as well.

Metal Khador jacks would probably be better anyway.

Depending on who is the store owner and person doing the swining or being hit, one could get up to 2 years for it. 8 if there is some seriouse lasting damage done and if someone kills another it goes under use of improvised weapon and can be anything from 25 to lifelong. not to mention the life long bann from all stores and tournaments.

Never seen it done

Makumba wrote:
Depending on who is the store owner and person doing the swining or being hit, one could get up to 2 years for it. 8 if there is some seriouse lasting damage done and if someone kills another it goes under use of improvised weapon and can be anything from 25 to lifelong. not to mention the life long bann from all stores and tournaments.

Never seen it done

So its a D-Strength weapon then ?

The Imperial Answer wrote:

Makumba wrote:
Depending on who is the store owner and person doing the swining or being hit, one could get up to 2 years for it. 8 if there is some seriouse lasting damage done and if someone kills another it goes under use of improvised weapon and can be anything from 25 to lifelong. not to mention the life long bann from all stores and tournaments.

Never seen it done

So its a D-Strength weapon then ?

Inflicts 200D6 auto-wounds & Hull points (for every 500 points you are playing) to his entire army with the Super Instant Death special rule.
Super Instant Death: A model wounded by a weapon with this special rule is instantly removed; no FNP, no saves of any kind, no Reanimation protocols. It's game over, man. Game over!

Makumba wrote:
Depending on who is the store owner and person doing the swining or being hit, one could get up to 2 years for it. 8 if there is some seriouse lasting damage done and if someone kills another it goes under use of improvised weapon and can be anything from 25 to lifelong. not to mention the life long bann from all stores and tournaments.

Never seen it done

You must be fun in parties

I have a few metal dreads. If you put them in a sock, the sock would likely break.

Ignores all saves!

How much do those dreads sell for on ebay? I have a lot of trouble with cheaters at my club.
Also that old batman sound affect makes sense now. Batman beating up dirty scum bags with the dread sock.

Talys wrote:
Ignores all saves!

Now I have the vision of an angry player, bitter after losing to 2++ rerollable crazyness, attacking the "TFG" with the Dread Sock while shouting "Reroll this save, fether!"

Honestly multiple dreads are by no means nessesary. One of those old metal dreads is WAYYY more than enough weight.
Seriously though the dread sock is just an old joke. Not a real thing.

Orkhead wrote:

Seriously though the dread sock is just an old joke. Not a real thing.

Yeah... everyone knows you get a lot more mileage out of a towel wrapped around a bunch of oranges.

Yeah... everyone knows you get a lot more mileage out of a towel wrapped around a bunch of oranges.

Enough to teach a lesson, without leaving any marks....

We always used a bar of soap in a tube sock, not in any 40k games, just in general.

On a serious note, I have never heard this particular practice, I could imagine that would disuade cheating though

It's and old joke on the Internets, basically. Were there's smoke, there's fire.

These days, with the majority of dreads being plastic, it's more common to beat them senseless with the rulebook.

If they've read it, they're half-way there anyway.

Never heard the term before, but the concept of using models as weapons is an old chestnut that gets around. Sometimes with the sock, other times with throwing at heads. Never seen any put into practice.

And the old WHFB steagedon would be my weapon of choice FWIW. Solid chunk of metal, covered with spikes. Skink shrapnel is just gravy.

Orkhead wrote:
Honestly multiple dreads are by no means nessesary. One of those old metal dreads is WAYYY more than enough weight.
Seriously though the dread sock is just an old joke. Not a real thing.

I thought the dread sock referred to a lack of hygiene...
It would be easy to counter the dread sock with twin whippy sticks of Doom.

The dread sock is a joke and has (hopefully) never been used in real life.

Unlike the deadly red whips the starter sets used to come with. We mourn those who have fallen and or lost an eye to those deadly weapons.

They really need to ban there use under the Ares convention.

It's more effective to stuff an Exorcist tank into the sock along with the Dreads... you'd probably die just trying to lift the sock.

An apocryphal story, in the same vein as dropping a handful of d30s into a sock and beating a player with it for shenanigans during a D&D game.

I've had to do this several times while playing. But since I live in a litigious society, I've had to use plastic dreads. Still scares the living sh*t out of the bastard 12 and 13 year old punks who were trying to cheat on me.

I still don't understand why my FLGS says if I do it an eighth time, I'm banned.

Reading this thread made my day!

That said, I feel like modern day Chaos Marines are pretty dangerous weapons. If the spike weren't thin enough to break instead of impaling you my hands would be a solid mass of band-aids from playing games with my brother Marrowick

And don't get me started on Killakans. Those things KAN kill!

I have seen metal dreads punch holes in drywall and red whippy sticks that have broken skin. True story.

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:
It's more effective to stuff an Exorcist tank into the sock along with the Dreads... you'd probably die just trying to lift the sock.

I weighed my Exorcist for shiggles: exactly 15 ounces of white metal and plastic. Yikes.

 Frazzled wrote:

Orkhead wrote:
Honestly multiple dreads are by no means nessesary. One of those old metal dreads is WAYYY more than enough weight.
Seriously though the dread sock is just an old joke. Not a real thing.

I thought the dread sock referred to a lack of hygiene...
It would be easy to counter the dread sock with twin whippy sticks of Doom.

You're thinking of the poop sock. God help you if someone starts swinging *that* sucker around.

Funny enough, there is a term in Warmachine called "Sock-Jacking". The idea was you placed one of your large, heavy, metal warjacks in a sock and hit someone with it. Earliest recollection of the term goes back to... 2003 I think?

Would be kind of interesting if it came from 40K, or 40K got it from Warmachine. At last! Something in common between the two games besides dice.

I've only ever been threatened with handfuls of metal land speeders being thrown at me, never the sock sadly.

Frankly, there are worse things boys could be doing with tube socks

It used to be a joke in the Perth store (Raine square) store at one point, when we had the huge gangs of indigenous Australians milling around.

But yeah with all the exacto knives and stuff we used to carry, yeah....probably a falsity.

Tamwulf wrote:Funny enough, there is a term in Warmachine called "Sock-Jacking". The idea was you placed one of your large, heavy, metal warjacks in a sock and hit someone with it. Earliest recollection of the term goes back to... 2003 I think?

Would be kind of interesting if it came from 40K, or 40K got it from Warmachine. At last! Something in common between the two games besides dice.

Nope, it's a term that definitely pre-dates Privateer Press.

Psienesis wrote:An apocryphal story, in the same vein as dropping a handful of d30s into a sock and beating a player with it for shenanigans during a D&D game.

Pretty much what Psienesis said. I've never heard of anyone being hit with ye olde dread in sock. It was just a silly threat to keep people in line

Although curiously enough, page five of the war machine book states that you 'should make your opponent feel like he's been hit in the back of the head with a juggernaut in a tube sock' when you snatch victory from his grasp.