Editing Chaos Dreadnought (section)

==Chaos Contemptor Dreadnought==
[[File:Khorne Chaos Contemptor Dred.jpg|320px|thumbnail|right|"And that [[Trygon]] was this long when I was done with it."]]
You thought that only the Loyalists had access to Contemptors? NOPE. Chaos also have their own.

Chaos Contemptors are a rarity and symbol of the Chaos Marines' past. Contemptors were standard equipment back when the Traitor Legions were still loyal to the Emperor. After the [[Horus Heresy]] bombed and the Legions fled to the Eye of Terror, it became difficult, if not almost impossible, to maintain the current equipment of the Chaos Marines. The parts that were vital to the equipment's functionality were either corrupted by warp energies, or they had to be replaced with something else due to lack of materials and/or lack of appropriate skills. That treatment was what made Chaos Contemptors different from their Imperial counterparts.

New armaments included weapons such as [[Butcher Cannon]]s, [[Soul Burner Petard]]s, or replacing the typical power source with a Hellfire Reactor. [[grimdark|That last one powered the Dreadnought by consuming the souls of those the walker slew, and]] [[psykers]] [[grimdark|were even more vulnerable to its predations]]. The drawback of the Hellfire Reactor is that the Chaos Contemptor [[Derp|lost]] its Atomantic shielding.

Due to its unique construction and capabilities, the Contemptors caught the eyes of the Dark Gods, and thus blessed them with various gifts and abilities. [[Khorne|Khornate]] Contemptors are unmatched in the arts of [[RIP AND TEAR]] with their [[Chain Weapon#Khornate Assault Claw|Khornate Assault Claws]]. [[Slaanesh|Slaaneshi]] are equipped with even more powerful sonic weaponry. [[Nurgle]] Contemptors are insanely durable and resilient and may be armed with the elusive [[Power weapon#Plague Claw|Plague Claw]]. [[Tzeentch]] on the other hand turns Chaos Contemptors into [[Dakka|DAKKA]] incarnate thanks to his arcane knowledge. Thus most of the walkers serve a single patron, yet there are some that serve Chaos Undivided.

What's the most interesting thing about the Chaos Contemptors is that every single Chaos Worshipper (mostly particularly powerful [[Chaos Lord|Chaos Lords]] and [[Dark Mechanicus]] Magos members) want badly to be entombed inside one of them after a "unfortunate incident". Why? Because the occupant suffers neither the madness/pain combo that regular Chaos Dreadnoughts have, nor the madness that comes with being fused as a Helbrute. This is what truly makes these killer-engines so dangerous apart of their daemonically powered arsenal. [[AWESOME|This is probably one of the few times when being a Chaos Marine]] [[METAL BOXES|inside a METAL BAWKS]] [[Awesome|doesn't suck]].

Only significant minus is that just like the Imperial Contemptors, the Chaos ones come in very limited numbers, and the technology and techniques to produce new ones disappeared in the fires of the Horus Heresy. So you can imagine how desperate Chaos Marines are in trying to find those things.

===Mhara Gal Dreadnoughts===
[[File:Mhara Gal Tainted Dreadnought.jpg|290px|thumbnail|right|[[RIP AND TEAR|"GIVE ME A HUG!"]]]]
The unholy bastard child of Contemptor Dread and a [[Gal Vorbak]] troop, this oddity was exclusive to the [[Word Bearers]] during the [[Horus Heresy]].

Because of its nature the Mhara Gal is half Contemptor-turning-Helbrute, half [[Daemon Engine]], but is wholly a big mass of "Fuck You" to any enemy short of a tank that gets within range of its guns. Also because of its nature, the Mhara Gal's already arcane physical technology twisted in ways that made its components powered halfway on sorcery, and the result was something even weirder than most daemon engines.

While Lorgar was generally nice to all of his kids, the Mhara Gal was the start of the tradition of using a dreadnought as a form of punishment for falling down on the battlefield, particularly for those "blessed" by having a daemon forced inside them.

As for their presence for after the Heresy: there is none. They, like the Gal Vorbak, had been completely obliterated to the last by the time the [[Siege of Terra]] began, as admitted by Lorgar and Kor Phaeron themselves.

Mechanically, these things are like regular Contemptors and can only be taken in singles, but the main attraction is a mess of special rules, mostly revolving around fucking with morale in a pre-ATSKNF environment.

On the [[Horus Heresy]] tabletop, they are obviously an ''eeeevul'' Corrupted Dreadnought with extra mobility through ''Pathfinder'' and ''Move through Cover''. Offensively it's nothing to sneeze at, with WS6 ''Rampage (2)'' and Fists with ''Brutal (2)'' but also getting ''Murderous Strike (5+)'' to rip apart even terminators as well as a built-in bolter-like gun. Accursed makes it even more of a hassle against other Corrupted, daemons or psykers, as it emanates a 6" aura that deals -1 to Strength and Toughness, making it a nightmare for the Thousand Sons or Ruinstorm Daemons. A lot of the Contemptor's weapons remain open to you in any combination for free, with the addition of the warpfire cannon and the greater boltspitter, a TL heavy bolter-like gun. The only thing that can cost you is the Lascannon if you really plan on blasting tanks. That said, it's BS3, so take a normal Dreadnought if you want ranged weapons. Moreover, it gets no choices for underslung weapons on Fists. 

Defensively it's got a bit going for it too. On top of having 8 T7 wounds at a 2+/5++ save, it also has ''It Will Not Die (5+)'' for regeneration. On top of this, any flame, plasma, melta or volkite weapons reduce their strength by 1 when attacking this dread, which reduces the effectiveness of a lot of heavy weapons. Don't count on it too much though since everyone and their Cyber-familiar are going to use Lascannons.
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