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Add the Grey Knights' [[Matt Ward|checkered reputation with the community]] up until 6th Ed and you get what could be the undisputed champ of units kneecapped by fluff. | Add the Grey Knights' [[Matt Ward|checkered reputation with the community]] up until 6th Ed and you get what could be the undisputed champ of units kneecapped by fluff. | ||
The bad rep masks what's not a bad unit, all things considered. It's expensive, but then again everything in the Grey Knights' arsenal is, and it gets customizability and status as a Monstrous Creature with the current rules. While it's the only MC that doesn't get Fearless, with S10 and Terminator-level durability it's not a bad choice, and by virtue of being that combination of tough, strong and ugly you can guarantee the guy on the other end of the table will [[DISTRACTION CARNIFEEX|immediately try to kill it and ignore everything else in your army.]] | |||
== Getting Shit Fixed == | == Getting Shit Fixed == | ||
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"Yo dawg, I heard you like power armor, so I put power armor around your power armor so you can be armored while you're armored." -- Techmarine Xzibitus of the Grey Knights.
The Nemesis Dreadknight is a Grey Knight suit of armor that allows its wearer to go toe-to-toe with a Greater Daemon of Chaos on his own. Yes, the regular plot armor does have its limits, and even an above-strength chapter can't always send the hundreds of Battle Brothers that would normally be required to contain such a powerful daemon.
Wearers are recognized as being the most formidable of Knights; unfortunately for them, this means that they get stuck with the really dangerous missions.
Rage
The existence of the Dreadknight is not problematic in itself -- a Dreadnought-sized suit of armor that doesn't require the operator to be near-dead is a reasonable thing for a chapter to have. This is especially true for the Grey Knights, as they regularly take on massively powerful daemons with relatively few Knights, and prefer to let their battle-brothers have their eternal rest rather than keeping them half-alive in a Dreadnought.
The problem is that that it looks really silly. As in, "the pilot looks like he's in a baby carrier" silly. Combine this with the crunch giving the Dreadknight the saves of Terminator armor and the look of the pilot already wearing Termie armor, and you get a look so incompetently-designed that even grimdark can't explain why it turned out that way. It really does look like the designer was watching Alien at the time and thought that the Grey Knights needed power loaders. Well, if the Imperial Guard gets tractors with cannons it's only fair the Grey Knights get forklift trucks with feet...
Add the Grey Knights' checkered reputation with the community up until 6th Ed and you get what could be the undisputed champ of units kneecapped by fluff.
The bad rep masks what's not a bad unit, all things considered. It's expensive, but then again everything in the Grey Knights' arsenal is, and it gets customizability and status as a Monstrous Creature with the current rules. While it's the only MC that doesn't get Fearless, with S10 and Terminator-level durability it's not a bad choice, and by virtue of being that combination of tough, strong and ugly you can guarantee the guy on the other end of the table will immediately try to kill it and ignore everything else in your army.
Getting Shit Fixed
As a sidenote, this neckbeard has witnessed a local GK player modeling their Derpknight by attaching its limbs to the chassis of a dreadnaught to make it look somewhat less retarded. Bonus points for an Ironclad chassis, points off for the exposed-head Venerable chassis. In fact, a quick Google search suggests that NoughtKnight conversions are either on the rise or a short-lived yet epic fad among the conversion crowd.
Gallery
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In the grim, dark future, carrying babies is serious business.
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It's like one of those nesting dolls, but more retarded.
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What the Dreadknight should ACTUALLY look like.
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Dreadknight and baby.
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GW being original.
