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So now codex marines dreadnought got a boost to 4 attacks base, which s awesome! But, what about my points expensive furioso dreadnoughts whom I pay alot more for those extra attacks, and my now woefully inadequate contemptors with a measly 2 attacks base?

I say that all dreadnoughts of any chassis should now be bumped to 4 attacks base. I hope that at least forge world updates their dreadnoughts like this.

Anyone else have the same opinion?

Yeah, it doesn't make sense for a cc specialist dread to have less attacks than one that might not even have a cc weapon. Hopefully they'll errata it soon.

Marine players got nothing to complain about - once you've seen the Ork deff dread you will know what true inadequacy is

 Dakkamite wrote:
Marine players got nothing to complain about - once you've seen the Ork deff dread you will know what true inadequacy is

Ha ha! When unbound rules came out, I immediately bought 9 killa kanz and 3 deff dreads as a pure mech army. Then the new codex came out... Not used it since. What was funny before suddenly became a joke.

Dreads are bad. Melee is bad. Slow units are bad. Vehicles are bad. Orks are bad.

So naturally you put all this gak together and you end up one hell of a terrible unit. Heck, against Marines, if a dred somehow does make it across the table and into CC with a marine dread, the dread will swing at I4 and kill it before it gets its attacks. Or best case, it melees a unit of scouts or something, then ends its consolidation 1" away from another unit (because consolidating into another enemy is so OP) and gets shot to death. So pathetic

One of the problems with all the marines having their own codexes, but lots of overlap is unfair updates. I think everyone agreed that dreads needed a boost. It would have been nice if all the SM codexes in the same release cycle got them. IIRC there is some precedent for all marines getting a FAQ update when a new book boosted something (SSs? TML? I forget the specifics) Not that GW is particularly good with FAQs these days.

I think it would be a perfectly acceptable house rule to boost BA dreads to 4A.

Roll BA (and the others) into C:SM.

Never have to worry about your dreadnoughts being out of date again.

 Blacksails wrote:
Roll BA (and the others) into C:SM.

Never have to worry about your dreadnoughts being out of date again.

When they brought back the concept of supplements, I thought that might have been the way they were going. People will buy Sentinels of Terra, the IH one, or a wraith army supplement, why not BA? It gives them enough space of all their special snowflake stuff, but allows all the core stuff to be kept up to date and equal.

Sure, you have to buy two books, but that’s not that unusual these days...

Try a Sentinel. Gack armour, gack BS and gack BS.

 master of ordinance wrote:
Try a Sentinel. Gack armour, gack BS and gack BS.

yeah but you can take 50...

As a BA, SW player all i have to say is at least you got a Buff. mine as the same cost the same as yours and are pathetic .

Or, you know, helbrutes.

Notice that in Horus Heresy, anything sub-contemptor chassis essentially gets ignored - resulting in dreadnoughts actually being tough enough to achieve something.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:

 master of ordinance wrote:
Try a Sentinel. Gack armour, gack BS and gack BS.

yeah but you can take 50...

I wish... 50 outflanking Sentinels
Sadly however though they are way too pricey.