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Hi there guys. I was playing a friend a few weeks back, and he pulled out a Venerable Hellfire dread with TL lascannon/Missile launcher arms. In one game in notched up 3 armour kills (hulled down Chimera, Leman russ demolisherx2 [on the front armour!]) before getting shaken up and (in a kinda silly fashion) tarpitting some guardsmen. In another smaller game, it constantly shook/stunned/weap. destroyed my allies Vanilla Russ. It seems a nice little unit- hitting on 2's with rerolls, can fire both weapons, less chance of it going up in smoke with the ven. reroll. It is kind of expensive though, I don't have a SM codex at hand but its coming ion at over 160-170 iirc, also even with the ven. rerolls its only armour 12, and even the worst result on the chart, shaken, annoys the crap out of it- not being able to shoot with big guns when you are hitting on 2's kinda sucks.

Now, i know that the odds for it toasting 2 leman russes in a row on front armour with a LC, but with its accuracy/choice of weapons, you've got a damn good chance of cracking a light vehicle/transport with this fat boy every turn. Seems fairly worth it to me- maybe not so much the more competetive you get...

So what does dakka think of the dakka ven. dread? 2+ hits with big guns is tasty, what would you put on it? How would you use it/how would it fit in to your list?

A venerable hellfire is actually 205pts, or only 60pts less than a Godhammer Landraider with extra armor.

Nice unit, vastly over priced.

yea, a land raider has more heavy weapons, and is more likely to be undamaged by anti-tank fire, so it can shoot more.

Polonius wrote:A venerable hellfire is actually 205pts, or only 60pts less than a Godhammer Landraider with extra armor.

Nice unit, vastly over priced.

Ho-ly crap i did not realise it was that dear. That is a damn hefty price for the shots you get, as good as they are