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The reason i'm asking is i'm making a homebrew chapter who has a large amount of dreadnoughts, Not hundreds but say only 25 or so. Is that too many?? Sorry if it seems like a silly question as im fairly new to W40k and it's fluff. I dont play either.
thanks for the help. Please dont put anything smart alec comments.

There are certain chapters who see being interned in the dreadnought as an honor. Iron Hands and their successor chapters being one of them. I would imagine that the Chapter would have to be in good with the Adeptus Mechanicus to gain access to a lot of dreadnoughts. Or, they could possibly be relic hunters. But 25 isn't that ridiculous of a number.

Thanks alot, i was planning for them to be somewhat of relic hunters, I thought I'd ask as some people whether they play or not, get all huffy and puffy. Once again thanks heaps

Rules wise Blood Angels can run up to 12 Dreads.

....or more if you run multiple Death Company units but that would just be silly

@Boggy79, Thanks, I'm not sure if i want to play the game just yet, I'm still saving up to buy AoBR set and various paints and tools, I would to mainly model and so forth becuase the game looks so hard to grasp and there's so many rules. Thanks again.

Boggy79 wrote:Rules wise Blood Angels can run up to 12 Dreads.

....or more if you run multiple Death Company units but that would just be silly

For Clarity:
Blood angels can have a max of 11 Dreads in any one force org chart, not 12 or more.

3Strike wrote:@Boggy79, Thanks, I'm not sure if i want to play the game just yet, I'm still saving up to buy AoBR set and various paints and tools, I would to mainly model and so forth becuase the game looks so hard to grasp and there's so many rules. Thanks again.

The game seems really daunting at first, but if you can get a learning game or two in you can pick the basics of the game up very quickly. In a standard Space Marine army, you can run a Master of the Forge who grants lets you field 6 dreadnoughts as opposed to 3.

Now i want to see a army of marines that is only comprised of Dreadnaughts! Think of the hilarity that would be a ten man tac squad of dreads

On topic. I like the sound of the OP idea

DeathReaper wrote:

Boggy79 wrote:Rules wise Blood Angels can run up to 12 Dreads.

....or more if you run multiple Death Company units but that would just be silly

For Clarity:
Blood angels can have a max of 11 Dreads in any one force org chart, not 12 or more.

True. I just took it as given that running a game with that many points you'd need multiple FOC's.

I might total up the points needed just out of curiosity now....

You can get a 11 dread BA force, for 2k points.

If I hadn't been out of the game for the last five years I'm sure I'd have built that army by now.

The 3rd Edition SM Codex lists the Ultramarines as having 31 Dreadnoughts across nine companies. And that takes into account the 5th Company which was supposed to have suffered heavy casualties in a recent campaign at that time. The Ultramarines are probably better equipped with rare gear than most Chapters, but still. So yeah, 25 in an entire Chapter seems a reasonable number.

Thanks for the interest in this guys.

@Tazz Azrael, I was actaully thinking of that, more so from a modelling stand point.

I have another question, Why are all the minis so goddang expensive, at my local gaming store, the AoBR set is like $200 AUD is that normal or do like to jack up the prices??

Sweet mother of god that's high... Ebay man Ebay all the way.

Ebay or Amazon are safe bets. Look around and you should be able to find one for under $100 dollars or so. Also, if you can find a friend who wants to chip in for the Ork half you'll already have yourself an opponent.

@ Skinless2, Oh for sure, Way ahead of you. I've been browsing for ages, found some pretty good deals. I will buy 2nd hand and even damaged ones to salvage them.

3Strike wrote:Thanks for the interest in this guys.

@Tazz Azrael, I was actaully thinking of that, more so from a modelling stand point.

I have another question, Why are all the minis so goddang expensive, at my local gaming store, the AoBR set is like $200 AUD is that normal or do like to jack up the prices??

$200 Jebus thats a high price.... if i recall correctly AOBR was going for maybe $120 with tax at my FLGS, so i'm agreeing with the calls of ebay n such

ShatteredBlade wrote: There are certain chapters who see being interned in the dreadnought as an honor.

You mean as opposed to the ones that don't?

3Strike wrote:The reason i'm asking is i'm making a homebrew chapter who has a large amount of dreadnoughts, Not hundreds but say only 25 or so. Is that too many?? Sorry if it seems like a silly question as im fairly new to W40k and it's fluff. I dont play either.
thanks for the help. Please dont put anything smart alec comments.

Yep. Remember though, when you have more dreadnoughts it's generally because your chapter has a long and storied history. Dreadnoughts are rare and are living relics, an upstart year 38,000 chapter would not have dozens of them.

Also, dreadnoughts are extremely rarely all roused at once, but rather a small fraction are awake at any time. The space wolves I believe have around 100 dreadnoughts, all of whom were once roused in the defense of their fortress-monastery at one point.

@ph34r, Yeppers, My chapters 2nd company is only made up of those dreadnoughts which will only be awoken every 100 years for 200 years and every major battle/crusade. I know i'm most probably going against proper fluff but as i probably won't be playing, it's more about what i like and what i think is cool. Please feel free to correct on fluff and so forth. Also if you would like to check out my chapter and it's limited fluff, look here : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/426902.page

Cheers.

Don't forget guys.. the OP is Australian, and suffers for it.

I am sorry for your price woes!

Hey porkuslime, Yes we do and ebay seems the best bet but now all i need is some cash! haha.