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. Forget a cockpit, this thing doesn't even have a chair for the operator to sit on, just an Emperor-damned BABY CARRIER so a fairly experienced Eldar Ranger or a team of Tau sniper drones could just shoot the rider out of the baby carrier. For fuck's sake, the other Anime-inspired mech-lovers know to keep their Battlesuits fully enclosed, why can't these assholes? Does riding around everywhere like a fucking Penitent Engine make their dicks feel big? Is it to teabag fallen opponents? The usual answer to these sorts of questions is "because grimdark"...okay, or maybe "The power loader from Alien was awesome", but neither explanation couldn't save the Dreadknight if it tried.
The fluff will tell you that there is an incredibly strong force field protecting the pilot which is explicitly mentioned and that you must think reading is hard, but it's just another excuse. It still looks retarded and quite frankly we don't care how many void shields penis enlargers it has. In fact, having shields only asks even more questions, like...
Why the fuck doesn't the entire machine have this force-field? And if they can put a force-field onto an Astartes-sized individual...why don't they do that for all the Grey Knights, then? The description mentions that it might actually be some super secret technology that they can't actually replicate, which would mean there'd be a finite and very small number of Dreadknights actually around...and if that were implied, why don't they say in the fluff? They do that for a bunch of other units, including the Baneblade, the Spartan Assault Tank, and Terminator armor, so why not this one?
If Grey Knights are so hard to produce, then why aren't the Dreadknights, which are given to the guys you risk against the shit normal Grey Knights feel outgunned against, designed with maximum survivability in mind with an actual cockpit?
All of this makes the final product super-"special", both in the Mary Sue sense and in the "short bus" sense, with its only saving grace being how effective/OP on the table it is. This probably makes the Dreadknight the undisputed champ of effective, even cheesy units fucked up by moronic design and stupid, stupid fluff.
It also has access to the personal teleporter, which is also odd and doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's the least of all the Dreadknight's problems.
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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Matt ward being original.
