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Somebody took the Tactical out of Tactical dreadnought Armour.



Just enough of a nod to the curvy RT era dreads as well as a link to termies.

Finally! A dreadnought that can play Football! My prayers are answered!!

Let the squig-punting begin!

...All he needs now is a tie and briefcase!

p.s. Are those Nikes?

Best...

Dreadnought...

Ever...

Cough cough, gundam legs, cough cough.

Looks okay. I'd like to see a chaos version. It's possible that we might get something like this as our 'venerable'.

Kanluwen wrote:
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Dreadknight should have looked like.

now THAT is a dreadknight I would buy, not a grey knight, on a grey knight.

Cypher's Sword wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what the Dreadknight should have looked like.

now THAT is a dreadknight I would buy, not a grey knight, on a grey knight.

Platuan4th wrote:

Well played, sir.

Good to see they made finally made models of these guys:

I just hope they do some chapter specific ones. Also, I'm wondering if one of the "forbidden" weapons will be the twin-linked assault cannon, these have been depicted with?

Very impressed. It's the Epic Marine Dread. Never thought I'd see that design again. Nice.

I want one it is so awesome. And its not GW but forgeworld the place that actually cares about their stuff ^.^

Well this has officially become my first Forgeworld Pre-order.

Platuan4th wrote:New Dreadnought? Must have! My Deathwing will thank me.

How many does that make now?

Ozymandias wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:New Dreadnought? Must have! My Deathwing will thank me.

How many does that make now?

6 DA Dreads
9 BA Dreads
1 Kitsune Guard Dread
1 GK Dread
1 TS Dread
1 RT era Dread for my Anarchist Legion

I like Dreads, ok?

So nice. Must have for my DA. Wait Platuan4th already went there.

I want to see the other weapon options. I want to make mine a hellfire!!

Well, time to get the dust off of my old BA army...


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Wait, I can make this thing into a firebat... Alright FW, time to take my money.

Good to see that FW can still make some good things!

Dont see how its too anime inspired, the legs look like really heavy industrial legs that would be from battletech or something

Also a dreadnought worth using for chaos (as of now)? Do want!

I'm not really fond of it actually, as some said it looks a bit fat...

Reminds me of the Urbanmech from the Mechwarrior universe...

But one thing I LOVE is how the stormbolter is included within the palm of the DCCW : that's EPIC!!!

I had just promised myself "no more Marine models; they're getting boring" and now this brute comes along. Goddammit. There goes my EngChem textbook money.

Oh my Emperor! That looks GORGEOUS! I have way too much on my hobby plate but in the near future....it will be mine!

I like that they are doing something different but it reminds me of Buzz Lightyear. The red one is ok but I prefer the current ones event if they are totally impractical.

Edit: I think it can be sorted by swapping the legs and arms of this biggun' and combining it with the sarcophagus of the venerables.

I want measurements. It looks fairly close to me in height by the comparison to the Dreadnoughts...I want!

I think the model itself is awesome. Looking forward to seeing the Dreadknight conversions this spawns as well.

I am not in love with the rules, however.

I feel that Dreadnoughts are already pretty hard to kill...and now this one comes along with front armor 13...and basically gets a Flickerfield as well??? Seems overpowered to me. Like a Leman Russ with a Force Field. Do not like.

Dude this is great I'm getting 4. My Pre-Heresy Wolves and World Eaters need some Dreadnought love. Thank you Forgeworld.

As it stands, the rules are a little mediocre (par for the course with FW), but the model is amazing. Another hit from FW, who have been on a roll in general lately. I just wish they'd make a resin combi-weapons kit, as this would both fill a gap in the product line and be awesome in its own right.

aka_mythos wrote:Good to see they made finally made models of these guys:

I just hope they do some chapter specific ones. Also, I'm wondering if one of the "forbidden" weapons will be the twin-linked assault cannon, these have been depicted with?

actually you'll find the weapon that dread is depicted as holding is already in the rules: it's a twin-linked autocannon. look at the ammo drums on the side, the it's a way too large caliber for an assault cannon, also the weapons seem to be one smooth barrel each. which is not very assault-cannon-ey

edit and just noticed, look at the support beam thingy running underneath the barrels, then look at the current dread twin-autocannon arms (have just painted 3 SETS of those, so I know what I'm talking about )

I cannot take this dread seriously it makes me giggle far too much for me to ever own one it looks more on the ridiculous anime ghost in the shell mech side then a war torn depressive era machine, why is there more anime esk things in warhammer now, like the chibi hawk. anyway just my opinion (:

My Wanderers have access to all weapons. I want this and i shall paint in there colors

Fetterkey wrote:As it stands, the rules are a little mediocre (par for the course with FW), but the model is amazing. Another hit from FW, who have been on a roll in general lately. I just wish they'd make a resin combi-weapons kit, as this would both fill a gap in the product line and be awesome in its own right.

An armor 13 dread with venerable stats and fleet as well as a 5+ invul for shooting is meh? FW doesn't have to come up with experimental broken rules like for the Achilles every time. Just giving vanilla marines an ironclad dread armor chassis with standard dread shooty weapons options and Death Company Dread movement (via fleet) and Space Wolf Bjorn-esque force field is plenty.

First of all I don't like it much - it looks too much like anime mecha. I don't like the space marine helmet head. That said I hope it grows on me 'cos I like the stats. Fellow Chaos warriors everywhere - can I assume this dread - which I can use in my CSM army - doesn't have the 'Crazed' rule? If so I'm getting some! (Too many times have my dreadnoughts blasted the odd squad of CSM's away with a plasma cannon). I assume also as this is the 'Contemptor' we can look forward to the 'Furibundus' and 'Deredo' versions later on? For all you kids out there (post Rogue Trader) I attach a pic of the original trio (yes I know the paint jobs are rubbish, but I did them years ago when I was a nipper).

Love it!

Although the Nitpick in me says I'll have to scrape off the Aquila if it is going to be Pre-Heresy/Crusade Era Dreadnought 'counts-as'.

I'll be picking up two... eventually!