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I made up some rules trying to fix the dreadnought.
I wanted to make it more of an expensive elite/hard to kill support unit for the tactical squads, which fits better with the fluff than drop pod them on a suicide mission behind/near enemy lines. Something that also disturbed me in the SM/DA codex is that the description of the dreadnought, its presence inspires the other space marines, but in the rules it does no such thing.

You can see it is possible to upgrade the dreadnought quite a lot, making it an expensive AV14 unit (with venerable status) almost as a cost of a land raider (125 + 50 + 50) = 225 points.

I need to play test this myself, but my question to DA/SM players would be: Do you think these rules are balanced and fun, and would how likely would it make you consider including dreadnoughts to your army?


The original dawn of war intro gives a good example of what I want to achieve with it:



Also, something rather silly is the dreadnoughts 2 attacks per turn (specially against larger units), so I wanted to make something like the smash attack in dawn of war II:




And finally here are my proposed rules:






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I just found an error in the power smash, the rule should read:
Put one small blast template on one enemy model in base contact