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What timing - just when I needed mechanical legs.

Ratius wrote:I'd actually turn it into a hth assault rig.

Immune to str4 or less in combat.
6+ save in hth.
Add an extra CCW arm. Thats 4 attacks on the charge, WS5, str7, no armor save due to walker.
Upgrade the SBs to HFs and sweep away.
Also has fleet so can close much faster then a regular Dread.
Tasty.

It would be immune to Str 6 or less in combat seeing as it is AV 13 on the front.
Plus S10 from Dreadnought Close combat weapons

Makes it a brute really.

reds8n wrote:

johnnyrumour wrote:... I like the blanked out bits in the rules pdf

I was wondering about those too.

Especially with regards to what else it might be allowed other than extra armour and a searchlight... ? Or more pertinently why we wouldn't be allowed to know this yet ? Wonder what they're cooking up.

Well the little boxout mentions specific CSM rules in a future book so maybe the 'final' version will feature these as visible options.

"A Space Marine Contemptor Dreadnought is an Elites Choice in a Codex Space Marine, Codex Dark Angels, Codex Space Wolves, Codex Blood Angels or Codex Black Templars army. Until a specific variant of this unit is featured in a forthcoming book, the Contemptor as listed here may also be used in a Codex Chaos Space Marines army."

Hmmmm.

Anyway, I hope some random Mechanicus explorator team uncovers the STC for those and we'll ditch the horrid walking boxes altogether.

wow, looks really great. Puts the regular model to shame. But I dunno why it needs it's own rules, just use it as a regular one if it has the same weapon options...

Kanluwen wrote:
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Dreadknight should have looked like.

SMEXY!

For those of you too young to remember this is what the Epic Space Marine dreads looked like back in the day, it was a bridge between the fugly RT dreads and the fugly angry washing machines we have today.

I love it.

I actually find myself wondering if $75 is really that much money.

It would be immune to Str 6 or less in combat seeing as it is AV 13 on the front.
Plus S10 from Dreadnought Close combat weapons

Makes it a brute really.

Very true!

It is interesting to see GW and FW, with all this "pre-heresy" stuff, is re-writting not only the fictional history, piece but also masking it's true history.

I remember the REALLY old GW dread and it looked nothing like this so this has me wondering what model is this a modern interpretation of?

Oh fething... Guess who just got 3 mk.IV dreads for a pre-heresy army...

Ohwell. Guess im going to be rather dreadheavy like this ^^

Anyway, now on to the mk.iii and mk.iv assault squads and maybe some ph termies? That would be sweet!

Holy gak, I actually want one of those.

SHUT UP AN TAKE MY MONEY, FORGEWORLD!

Only last week was I thinking how much I hate those angry walking washing machines and then FW gives us a blast from the past with an incredible looking dred.

By the look of it, it is completley poseable, legs and all! Liking the nod towards termie armour above the head, subtle but effective.

Honestly there is nothing bad about this model at all with the tiny exception of the 'fins' on the lascannons, and a quick snip will deal with them!

Cain

Quick! Someone buy one and put those legs on a standard dread body. I want to see if it makes the current dread look any better.

Can has for Chaos Please...

Oh wait, I can!

Joy. I'm using this in like every game from now on!

Right, just bought one and I'm wondering if I should have bought two...

That doesn't happen often, you know.

Dang, there goes my wallet again. Damn you forgeworld! You continue to take my money, now I must wait till it gets here.

nice looking dread, also like the bit of Chaos teaser info!

forbidden options will prob be for the chaos variant!

Oh, I like that Dreadnought.

ceorron wrote:It is interesting to see GW and FW, with all this "pre-heresy" stuff, is re-writting not only the fictional history, piece but also masking it's true history.

I remember the REALLY old GW dread and it looked nothing like this so this has me wondering what model is this a modern interpretation of?

Perhaps if the modelling technology and resources were available back then it WOULD Look like this. Gotta remember that the models from that era were awful because the technology was primitive

I gotta say, i don't normally get to excited about FW stuff. But..... lately, they have be putting out some great looking pieces. Particularly in the SM parts, this is by far and large my utmost favourite. But £45. not sure.

ceorron wrote:
I remember the REALLY old GW dread and it looked nothing like this so this has me wondering what model is this a modern interpretation of?

As Kyoto said, they're reminiscent of the old Epic models, but are also lifted straight from the Visions of Heresy artbook and Horus Heresy card game.

They're almost scarily accurate to that art.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
For those of you too young to remember this is what the Epic Space Marine dreads looked like back in the day, it was a bridge between the fugly RT dreads and the fugly angry washing machines we have today.

I love it.

Thanks Kid_Kyoto for clearing that up for me. I remember the RT dread but not the original Epic Space Marine dread, must be that that was the real inspiration.

Cheers

Edit : Thanks Platuan4th as well!


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I can't believe you guys are liking that. I love Dreads but this looks like a fat little Gundam to me.

yeah, this may make my wish list rather quick.

Wow, and I had just concluded I didn't need any more FW models. I even bitzed up a version of this guy not too long ago, if I had known they were really making one I'd have saved myself the trouble. Yup, definately picking him up!

ceorron wrote:[
Thanks Kid_Kyoto for clearing that up for me. I remember the RT dread but not the original Epic Space Marine dread, must be that that was the real inspiration.

Here's a picture of the plastic Epic dreadnought:
http://www.galactic-intrigue.com/epicollector/Pages/2-Catalog/SpaceMarine-Catalog/Marines-Photos/NoughtsBots-PlasticDreadnought.jpg

Likes.

Looks much like the ones from the Sabretooth CCG.

I can imagine this walking about more than the current Dreadnoughts.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:fugly RT dreads.

I liked the Furibundus one but the others looked a bit lanky.

Here's the old Epic dreads

http://zachary.org/games/gw/epic10.jpg

OMG it can actually walk properly.

I am going to get some when the IA rules come out!


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Hits_the_spot wrote:I gotta say, i don't normally get to excited about FW stuff. But..... lately, they have be putting out some great looking pieces. Particularly in the SM parts, this is by far and large my utmost favourite. But £45. not sure.

Including shipping its cheaper than Aussie retail.

Even though my cup runeth over with GW hate since April, I have to admit that dreadnought looks really cool and goes with their recent marine pre-heresy trend.

Oh my sweet messiah.

Sign me up for a minimum of 3.



aaaaaaaaaand there's a chaos one on the way!

Somebody catch me, I think i'm going to faint...