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Near 600 points + psychic support. Worth it? You decide.

With enough psychic support, anything is good.

Even with an AV boost, plenty of things can make you go away. As deathstars go, it’s not that tough.

When I finished painting the AsC arm for my ven dread, I experimented with fielding 3 normal assault cannon dreads in a squad. It did not work out well. As a squad they have a massive footprint. So it’s easy to get caught in cover, where because one guy is still in the brush, they all get slowed. And getting all 3 of the 24” guns to bear on the same target was harder then you would think. While the Contempts are fleet, they are still going to have a lot of those problems.

I would not do more then 2 in a squadron. 3 are just going to get in each other’s way. I don’t see the potential benefits of buffs outweighing the diminishing returns of large blocks of dreads.

I thought they had move thru cover to help mitigate that somewhat.