Da Butcha wrote:

cadbren wrote:

Mr Morden wrote:

"Whilst many White Scars find the prospect of being confined within the metal sarcophagus a horror, believing their soul should be allowed to roam free, Temajin has vowed to hunt down and enact revenge against the coward who shot him"

Its the usual 40k thing - the exception that proves the rule

Doesn't make sense. Dreads don't hunt down people, they're too valuable to use like that. They're kind of hard to sneak up on people with too and who's going to maintain his systems while he's "hunting"? He'd need special transport, a techpriest at least and other support people. All these people and resources so that one cowardly person can be tracked down and killed?
This is so insanely stupid you just know the writer gave zero thought to this.

Wow. "Insanely stupid" seems a bit hyperbolic.

I don't think 'hunt down' here means 'sneak up on and shoot'. I think the Dreadnought is probably part of a battle force which is pursuing an enemy force which contains the coward who shot him. I don't see any evidence that Temajin tromps off alone into the woods to do it, either. I don't think he's wearing a hunting cap and creeping around like Elmer Fudd.

I also don't see where you get that because Temajin has vowed to hunt down this coward, that's ALL he and his support staff (and presumably, brother marines) are doing. If someone vows to hunt down Ghazgkhul, he's probably not going off on his own with a medic and a driver, and ignoring all the other orks he meets. He's probably prosecuting some sort of a crusade with an end goal of killing Ghazghkul, but a crusade that would also result in a lot of ork deaths. A crusade that other allies could support, even if they, personally, didn't have a vendetta against one particular enemy in that opposition. Temajin may hate the coward who laid him low, but I don't see any evidence that the dreadnought won't fight anyone else but that guy.

Assuming that the dreadnought isn't 'hunting wabbits', but actually waging an effective campaign against this enemy's forces, how is this a waste? I mean, theoretically, every Dreadnought should just be training other space marines until they've learned all his tricks and tactics, rather than loafing around in suspended animation between battles, but still.

You can accept that they entomb grievously wounded heroes and revive them in times of need against the foe, but they would never do this to some wounded hero who WANTED to survive and face off against a particular enemy?

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Didn't even know White Scars were anit-dreadnaught.

Maybe it's like how Space Wolves are anti-psyker but still have super-psyker-space marines?

Da Butcha wrote:
You can accept that they entomb grievously wounded heroes and revive them in times of need against the foe, but they would never do this to some wounded hero who WANTED to survive and face off against a particular enemy?

mattyrm wrote: I dont think its THAT bad.. surely some of the fethers in the Scars must fancy cracking on in a Dred?

Id rather do that and keep on busting skulls if I was mad into my bikes, than just you know.. die.

cadbren wrote:

Da Butcha wrote:
You can accept that they entomb grievously wounded heroes and revive them in times of need against the foe, but they would never do this to some wounded hero who WANTED to survive and face off against a particular enemy?

A chapter which apparently doesn't believe in dreads is suddenly going to go against this belief so that a marine can get vengeance on someone who isn't strong enough to defeat astartes in battle. That sounds too petty for marines to bother with.