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Well i had yet another miserable failure with my chaos troops but mainly my Dreadnought:

I managed to lose it on the first turn and it got me thinking.I play all armies except Eldar and Bugs(phew) and i need to find a reason what makes my Dread inefficient.

Tooling:

Dirge Caster,

Stock CC weapon with flamer,

Twin-linked Lascannons,

Parasitic Possession (repair of 'weapon destroyed' and 'immobilized' on a 4+).

Thats it.Considering that it dies too fast and too easily,Im thinking that for the points,i can:

A)Add a few more Termi armours,

B)A second Obliterator on a second Elite slot,

C)Replace the Dread by a Predator(advice on this please if this option fits best),

D)Re-tool my dread for CC and just hope it doesnt charge me instead.

I have a more or less balanced army of 2000pts (more but we play 2k in my store) with the Termies coming in as reserves (Homer is with my 6 man Raptor squad for best results).

I got 1 rhino for my 10man squad (flamer+melta,joined Sorcerer HQ),Defiler (indirect,parasoite,flamer,reaper),6 Termies with reaper cannon,6 Raptors(lightning claws,2 meltas,1 flamer),Flying DP to replace the walking HQ(depending on the game,unit is cheaper also),9 Tzeentch Marines with Sorcerer and the dread.

Sums up to:

Is the Chaos dread really worth it or is it too much of a hasard to my own men,or is it better to replace it?

I hope some more experienced players can help me out.

Cheers

Why the dirge caster? If your undivided your LD10 with a reroll (if you take ACs). If your a cult list, your already fearless. I'm not sure the dirge caster is helping anything.

Dread survival depends on how much other armor is in your list. If its all alone it will get targeted early by guns that have nothing better to shoot at. However if you have 3-4 other pieces of armor in there, your in much better shape. It looks like your list only has the one rhino and one defiler. Since the defiler has indirect you probably hide it. That just leaves your dread and one rhino to absorb all incoming fire for the first two turns. Not good survival odds.

My dread was designed for CC duty, and I never had a problem with it. I don't use it anymore becuase I've changed how the list works and it doesn't fit anymore. But when I did run it the list had two rhinos, one defiler, and if I felt up to it, one preditor. I did not give the defiler indirect and it drew a lot of attention away from my other armor, which is what allows them to do thier job. You might want to consider taking the points for dirge caster and putting it towards mutated hull. AV13 will help keep it around. Personally I've not found a use for parsitic possession. Demonic possession however is the bomb if you want to keep a tank shooting.

So to me it sounds like your list as a whole is not very armor friendly. You don't have enough of it to keep the enemy guessing. My suggestion would be to keep the dread and try to find some more points to get other pieces of armor in there to help spread the love.

mutated hull 100% loyalist dreads WISH they could be AV 13

I was also thinking of ditching the caster and replacing into a CC machine considering the 1 roll to go berserk and attack with extra d6s...
Its either that or a Pred.maybe both but in 2000 points,its a little difficult.