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So I got my Blood Angels Furioso Dreadnaught nearing completion. My only problem is deciding on what to load him with.

Blood Fists or Blood Talons?

And what weapons do I attach to them?

The help is greatly appreciated guys, please, have at it.

Blood Fist (S10) for vehicle hunting, combined with meltagun and heavy flamer upgrade (maybe even magna grapple).

Blood Talons are better on the Death Dread, he has 2 more attacks on the charge, 6 in stead of 4 from the Furioso.

The loadout you see now a days is the Fragcannon / Blood Fist with build in Heavy Flamer upgrade (maybe even magna grapple) (also known as the Fragnought)
This way you get 2 flamertemplate S6 and 1 S5, that is 3 flamertemplates per turn, I know from experience that footsloggers do not like those templates haha

Go with the fragnought. The blood talon scheme is a real if-come-maybe. Also AV 13 is way better than AV 12, making the furioso a better choice over the DC dread. And no annoying prerequisite squad.

well it depends on your army in general and your oppoents

if you know your opponents list, counteract them with the correct set up

if your army is based tords 1 thing, then balence it with the load out

other wise, go for a mix so the frag naught is best if you want a mix, just note that it will be that good in melee agenst infantry and wont be that good at vehicals from range ( never was exept for the manga grapple )

if you need range go for the norm dread with the right equipment

I second the Fragioso option (although its not one you listed). # templates on the drop - assuming you take a pod - and pretty decent in CC with AV13.

untill you come acros a guy with a fist, hammer, or odd weapon of st 7+

 jbsnv wrote:
untill you come acros a guy with a fist, hammer, or odd weapon of st 7+

Which is very uncommon for the backfield units you are targeting with the Fragnoughts.

@OP: Fragnoughts the best in 6th dude (IMO)

Lucarikx

Well I'm definately fielding the SOB in a drop pod. It'd get blown up fast if I have him footslog it across no man's land.

I'll add my +1 to the Fragnought. I ran one in a drop pod with a heavy flamer at BAO and it does horrific damage. Game one, I dropped it next to a 15 strong loota squad backed up by 30 gretchin and got a ridiculous number of hits - 14 from the frag cannon and another 7 from the heavy flamer, plus another 12 and 6 on the gretchin - which are almost all guaranteed to be kills. Game 6 the fragnought dropped in and shot a DE beast squad and all that was left was a cloud of feathers and khymera bits. It doesn't last long, but that's only because of the amount of damage it does. If you can spare the points, grab a magna-grapple for the extra range and anti armor threat.