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My space wolves army is finished ( so far ), and i'm looking for some fun with dreadnaughts. Won't be entering any tournaments, but i don't mind if it could be semi-competitive.

Any contenders for that kind of list?

Grey Knights...

Maybe BA...

And that's about it for armies that love dreads...

What he said

You could run a vanilla marine army with a captain on a bike, a master of the forge on a bike (with conversion beamer) a few bike troops and then 6 dreads. You can spam venerable dreads this way, making them effectively invincible. Or massed ironclads in drop pods.

BA dread list do it

Master of the forge, 6 ironclad dreadnoughts, drop pods (if so inclined) and fill the rest with SM scouts with sniper rifles and camo cloaks. With luck on terrain, you can get a ton of 3+ and a 2+ cover save. Plus it is fun. Also, you can also take the forge world drop pod (can't think of it's name) that is an assault vehicle so you can drop and assault in the same turn.

Chaos Marines? 1K sons (you could convert) lead to a low model count and you can take dread elites.

If you want to go really low model count, nothing beats the draigowing. Once you have your troop choices, spend the rest on psyfle dreads to bring fear to those who hide in metal bawkses.

Blood Angels

HQ

3 furioso dreadnoughts in elites

25 deathcompany as troops

5 deathcompany dreadnoughts in troops

3 regular dreadnoughts in heavy support


Scale back as you see fit. Be warned! Nothing in that list is a scoring unit! Kill or be killed!

Space marines with dreadnought spam. Can field 6 dreadnoughts in an army, with some scouts or tactical marines as troops.

Oppressor wrote:Blood Angels

HQ

3 furioso dreadnoughts in elites

25 deathcompany as troops

5 deathcompany dreadnoughts in troops

3 regular dreadnoughts in heavy support


Scale back as you see fit. Be warned! Nothing in that list is a scoring unit! Kill or be killed!

That is...an exceptionally manly army list.

It's incredibly fun to play against.

I wouldn't bring it to tournaments, but dear god is it fun to play as and against.

Oppressor wrote:Blood Angels

HQ

3 furioso dreadnoughts in elites

25 deathcompany as troops

5 deathcompany dreadnoughts in troops

3 regular dreadnoughts in heavy support


Scale back as you see fit. Be warned! Nothing in that list is a scoring unit! Kill or be killed!

Problem with lists like that is that they're laughably easy to counter. There's making a dread-heavy list, and then there's being OTT. That is OTT.

My fun army is a Deathwing with 36 terminators. You could drop some termi's and add some dreadnaughts.

I've also been toying with a dread-heavy list lately. A BA list I made up last night went
Librarian x2
Furioso Librarian x3
Death Company dreadnought x6
Dreadnought x3.
Absolutely ridiculous, but probably unpleasant for someone on the receiving end.

Oppressor wrote:Blood Angels

HQ

3 furioso dreadnoughts in elites

25 deathcompany as troops

5 deathcompany dreadnoughts in troops

3 regular dreadnoughts in heavy support


Scale back as you see fit. Be warned! Nothing in that list is a scoring unit! Kill or be killed!

I love the thought of the 11 Dread list. I think getting rid of the 3 heavies and running 6 preds along w/ the 8 dreads. Take a land raider crusader. that is an awesomely scary force.

Dheneb wrote:I've also been toying with a dread-heavy list lately. A BA list I made up last night went
Librarian x2
Furioso Librarian x3
Death Company dreadnought x6
Dreadnought x3.
Absolutely ridiculous, but probably unpleasant for someone on the receiving end.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that list is illegal. You need 5 deathcompany in order to unlock one deathcompany dreadnought (for every 5 deathcompany you can take a deathcompany dreadnought).


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funkyh wrote:

Oppressor wrote:Blood Angels

HQ

3 furioso dreadnoughts in elites

25 deathcompany as troops

5 deathcompany dreadnoughts in troops

3 regular dreadnoughts in heavy support


Scale back as you see fit. Be warned! Nothing in that list is a scoring unit! Kill or be killed!

I love the thought of the 11 Dread list. I think getting rid of the 3 heavies and running 6 preds along w/ the 8 dreads. Take a land raider crusader. that is an awesomely scary force.

If you were to take out the three normal dreads in heavy you would still only have 3 heavy slots to fill with preds.

Ork Deff Dread List
2x Big Mek W Kff
5xDeff Dread (2x Troop)
2x30 grots for cover

Add whatever screening Vech you like, I pref buggies, then just run at the enemy, its fun and can be painted cleverly. If you don't mind Kans, do 2xDreads, 9x Kans, and it becomes more competitive.

Oppressor wrote:

Dheneb wrote:I've also been toying with a dread-heavy list lately. A BA list I made up last night went
Librarian x2
Furioso Librarian x3
Death Company dreadnought x6
Dreadnought x3.
Absolutely ridiculous, but probably unpleasant for someone on the receiving end.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that list is illegal. You need 5 deathcompany in order to unlock one deathcompany dreadnought (for every 5 deathcompany you can take a deathcompany dreadnought).

Why do you have to spoil my desires for a 90% walker army? Now I have to go back to making plastic card ork bits.

Oppressor wrote:If you were to take out the three normal dreads in heavy you would still only have 3 heavy slots to fill with preds.

Baal Preds are FA aren't they?

Canuckish wrote:Ork Deff Dread List
2x Big Mek W Kff
5xDeff Dread (2x Troop)
2x30 grots for cover

Add whatever screening Vech you like, I pref buggies, then just run at the enemy, its fun and can be painted cleverly. If you don't mind Kans, do 2xDreads, 9x Kans, and it becomes more competitive.

grots aren't going to give dreds a cover but the kff will.. still i'd prefer to run for orks

2 big mek w/ kff
2 dreds as troops
9 killa kans

as for the OP

i agree on blood angels.

los cost hq like a librarian with shield of sanguinius and blood lance in terminator armor to march forward layign down coversaves much liek a big mek w/ kff... but 5+ not 4+

then a librarian dred and 2 furioso dreds for elite

i'd say for cometative sake add 2-4 groups of scouts for objective grabbers over death company unless you want death company dreds

then 3 dreds w/ drop pods, one being a rifleman dred w/ 2 auto cannons or plasma cannon/missile launchers and put the other 2 in pods so they both show up turn one and multimelta something important

Serge-David wrote:

Oppressor wrote:

Dheneb wrote:I've also been toying with a dread-heavy list lately. A BA list I made up last night went
Librarian x2
Furioso Librarian x3
Death Company dreadnought x6
Dreadnought x3.
Absolutely ridiculous, but probably unpleasant for someone on the receiving end.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that list is illegal. You need 5 deathcompany in order to unlock one deathcompany dreadnought (for every 5 deathcompany you can take a deathcompany dreadnought).

Why do you have to spoil my desires for a 90% walker army? Now I have to go back to making plastic card ork bits.

I'm sorry!


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rigeld2 wrote:

Oppressor wrote:If you were to take out the three normal dreads in heavy you would still only have 3 heavy slots to fill with preds.

Baal Preds are FA aren't they?

That's correct, but still does not match what was posted.

Baal and the normal predator are all predator variants.

Do Ork Deff Dreads and Killa Kans Count.

Because Kans are 50points so you can have lots.

I would go with the SM army with MOTF and lots of dreads. GK can do it, but the SM list just sounds like more fun.

funkyh wrote:Baal and the normal predator are all predator variants.

That's correct, but it still does not match either what was posted or the FOC chart allocations for predators and their variants in the BA codex.

Here's hoping that he/she meant 3 baal preds and 3 non baal preds.

Oppressor wrote:

funkyh wrote:Baal and the normal predator are all predator variants.

That's correct, but it still does not match either what was posted or the FOC chart allocations for predators and their variants in the BA codex.

Here's hoping that he/she meant 3 baal preds and 3 non baal preds.

Did you actually read the post?

funkyh wrote: I think getting rid of the 3 heavies and running 6 preds along w/ the 8 dreads. Take a land raider crusader. that is an awesomely scary force.

Get rid of the 3 heavy dreads, add 6 predators (3 AC/Las(Heavy Support), and 3 Baal Pred (Fast attack)).

Totally legal.

We must assume he meant 3 HS preds and 3 FA preds, since you only have 3 HS slots, and he was talking about Blood Angels it is not a stretch.

DeathReaper wrote:

Oppressor wrote:

funkyh wrote:Baal and the normal predator are all predator variants.

That's correct, but it still does not match either what was posted or the FOC chart allocations for predators and their variants in the BA codex.

Here's hoping that he/she meant 3 baal preds and 3 non baal preds.

Did you actually read the post?

Yes I did, hence my reply.

DeathReaper wrote:

funkyh wrote: I think getting rid of the 3 heavies and running 6 preds along w/ the 8 dreads. Take a land raider crusader. that is an awesomely scary force.

Get rid of the 3 heavy dreads, add 6 predators (3 AC/Las(Heavy Support), and 3 Baal Pred (Fast attack)).

Totally legal.

Abosolutely correct, If that's what he/she meant (which I hope)

DeathReaper wrote:We must assume he meant 3 HS preds and 3 FA preds, since you only have 3 HS slots, and he was talking about Blood Angels it is not a stretch.

Must assume huh? I go off of what is posted, considering how many people, including myself, make mistakes all the time.


I'd rather err on the side of caution than inadvertantly allow someone to spend precious time, money and effort in building and paintin up an illegal army.

Considering 6 preds can only be had in a BA force by having them be 3 FA, 3 HS... (Or Apoc, but he was talking about BA)

Again, no one misses a rule that is as clear as that, unless they have never played a game before. and how he was talking it seemed like he has some experience with the game.

DeathReaper wrote:Considering 6 preds can only be had in a BA force by having them be 3 FA, 3 HS... (Or Apoc, but he was talking about BA)

Again, no one misses a rule that is as clear as that, unless they have never played a game before. and how he was talking it seemed like he has some experience with the game.

That's a great deal of assuming you've got going on there. Also, please read my last edit.