Dreadknight
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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 it is yet another special toy for the special snowflake Chapter, and it is one that doesn't have the decency to look sensibly designed. The pilot is completely exposed -- in fact, the save conferred by the armor is exactly that conferred by Terminator armor...which the pilot is clearly already wearing. And it doesn't even have a cockpit to protect the wearer, so a fairly experienced Eldar Ranger or a team of Tau sniper drones could just shoot the rider out of the flimsy harness. Even the weeaboo space communists are smart enough to keep their Battlesuits fully enclosed, for fuck's sake. Of course, there IS an incredibly strong force field protecting the pilot which is explicitly mentioned, but reading is hard. Stop making excuses, Matt. The Imperium isn't smart enough to make void shields that small. "When matched with the Nemesis Dreadknight's devastating weapon systems and the all but impenetrable force field that protects the otherwise exposed pilot, this combination serves to elevate the Grey Knight's combat abilities to the point where he can withstand the blows of even the mightiest Greater Daemon, and unleash a fearsome counterattack in reply." -Grey Knights 5e Codex, p. 34
Reading, it seems, really is hard.
Gallery
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In the grim, dark future, carrying babies is serious business.
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It's like a one of those nesting dolls, but more retarded.
