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is the ork mega dread worth taking?

no

Unfortunately, in the age of hull points and crazy haywire, strength D, and grav spam, most walkers are in a really tough spot. The mega dread gets off better than most with its built in invuln. for CC and shooting (a rarity in the Ork army nowadays) but its not cheap and its really slow. The ranged weapons it can take (the killkannon) is too short ranged for such a slow platform and even though in CC its decent, ultimately it doesn't bring much to the table that a Warboss with a PK on bike doesn't. It's certainly not a unit you can just drop into an army like mek guns, you'd ideally have to place it in a dred/armour heavy list to make sure you have enough saturation that he doesn't get singled out immediately. Even then, Dred Mob is sub-par competitively, so YMMV depending on your local meta.

You get cool points for using it as it is one of the cooler looking models orks have. But alas, effectiveness isn't where it should be :(