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When a Chaos dread gets a fire frenzy the rules say that it must pivot on the spot and fire twice at the closest visible target, friend or foe. But a walker only have a 45º vision. Does this mean that models behind the dread or outside of that 45º is "invisible" and safe or does the dread make a 360º to survey the surroundings? I love dreadnoughts but they´re bloody dangerous both to me and my opponent!

The FAQ says only the 45 degree angle, so as long as none of your units are in front of it it must fire twice at an enemy unit.

Sweet! That´s what I was hoping for:-D! Thanks dude!

Nitros14 wrote:The FAQ says only the 45 degree angle, so as long as none of your units are in front of it it must fire twice at an enemy unit.

And the rules, as well. Always have done, for all of 5th. Walkers have 45 degree LOS from their weapons, which is 22.5 degrees either side, as their weapons are considered hull mounted. The FAQ just laid it to rest for people who were belabouring under the idea that walkers have 360 LOS

Thank you nos, I was about to moan again on how the rulebook already said that, again.

But yes as mentioned it's always a 45 degree angle from the guns, and you don't pivot twice if something else comes into LOS

Chaos dreads are amazing btw, for three with a heavy flamer and the required extra armor, 360 points for 4 attacks base dreads really puts the hurt on the enemy.

Yep, I have 3 but with lascannon, because i love the FW lascannon arms.....just look so mean. I have a single dual CCW one, g'teed it will get immobilised

Oh, when that lascannon fire's twice at that (probably a rhino), I'm sure the grin on your face is quite large.

Keep in mind, if you roll for fire frenzy and have been hit last round with a shaken result, you ignore fire frenzy.

Indeed - however my opponents rarely manage just a shaken result, immobilised or dead usually

And under the old book did manage to have 2 dreads BOTH blood frenzy into the same huge unit of blood claws, along with a 16 man bezerker unit....there wasnt anyone left. 14 dreadnought attacks plus 65 atacks from the bezerkers didnt leave anything standing

I miss the old double attacks. That was insane. Although Fleet is still pretty cool.

Indeed it was insane

Last time i rolled it up, against some wraithguard, i was only 6" away from them - but there was a small piece of terrain in between. I rolled a total of 4 inches for movement, run and assault!

nosferatu1001 wrote:Indeed it was insane

Last time i rolled it up, against some wraithguard, i was only 6" away from them - but there was a small piece of terrain in between. I rolled a total of 4 inches for movement, run and assault!

I always found that when I rolled Blood Frenzy (which happened a lot with a Khorne dread), he'd invariably miss all but two of his attacks and fail to wound with one of those. Every. Damn. Time.