Editing Dreadnought

[[File:Dow2r sm dreadnought ultra dlc.jpg|400px|thumbnail|right|An [[Ultramarines]] Venerable Dreadnought. Who said [[Tau]] are the only Mecha-Fans in the entire galaxy? Also, it looks more badass than aforementioned Tau battlesuits, proving that in the Imperium [[God-Emperor of Mankind|being as crippled as Stephen Hawking is no excuse to stop being pimp]].]]
Dreadnoughts are the siege [[Mecha]] of the [[Space Marines]]. They're piloted by a Space Marine who survived but was crippled beyond repair. If the apothecaries managed to save the life of a marine from wounds that should out-right kill him (which is saying a lot), but can't be restored to battle-capable condition anymore, the marine has the option of being interred into a Dreadnought and piloting it from the confines of his armored sarcophagus. The mech itself is synched to the pilot's brain; thus, the marine is capable of piloting the walker as if it were his own body, making these things quite agile despite their large, [[Carron|boxy]] design.

Dreadnoughts are incredibly tough, totally fearless, cannot feel pain, and would charge through the thickest gunlines to support their brothers in ripping and tearing the opposition. In fact, the only way to technically <i>kill</i> a Dread is by destroying the Sarcophagus or blowing it up completely, since as long as the Dreadnought has any operational weaponry and the pilot still lives, he ''will'' try to kill you with it, even if his machine is already crippled. Some Dreadnoughts contain the oldest warriors in the Imperium; at least one, [[Bjorn the Fell Handed|Bjorn]] of the [[Space Wolves]], is older than the [[Horus Heresy]]. As such, they generally have a ton of combat experience.

Tabletop wise, Dreads are an effective all-rounder and are fairly cheap to boot. They're good at any role they're tooled for, whether it's for blowing up tanks with twin-linked lascannons or melta guns or mowing down infantry with an assault cannon or heavy flamer. They can also be formidable close combat units as they can be tooled with power fists, for example.

You can also deep-strike them in [[Drop Pod]]s, ensuring hilarity when you get lucky and they end up where they precisely need to be. 

Do note, however, that many enemies focus anti-armor weapons on them (especially if there isn't a [[Land Raider]] to [[DISTRACTION CARNIFEX|distract]] them). A footslogging Dread, without heavy use of cover, will be a burning hulk of points within two turns, relying on the deep striking Drop Pods to get them where they need to go.

==Dreadnought Variants==

There's a whole bunch of Dreadnought variants that do different things. There are also [[Wraithlord]]s, [[Deff Dred]]s, and [[Helbrute]]s, which used to be called Eldar Dreadnoughts, Ork Dreadnoughts, and Chaos Dreadnoughts, respectively.

===Castraferrum Pattern===
Is the name for the traditional "box" dreadnought that everyone is familiar with, comes in MkIV and MkV flavours (just so you know, MkIV are the ones with the helmet-head). Was designed by the mechanicum during the great crusade, specifically for its smaller size (to assist battle-brothers ''indoors''), its reactor runs on pretty much any fuel, and the chassis is completely customisable; hence there are a terrific number of variations:

* '''Hellfire Dreadnought:''' The most common variation of shooty dread, this swaps out its close combat weapon for a missile launcher. 
* '''Ironclad Dreadnought:''' Even more heavily armored melee dreadnoughts with a Seismic Hammer, Hunter-Killer Missiles, and a built-in Frag Assault Launcher, designed to put giant holes in tanks and bunkers. It may also be equipped with a Hurricane Bolter if you need a big blob of light infantry killed fast.
* '''Siege Dreadnought:''' Specialized bunker-busting Dreadnoughts equipped with Assault Drills and Inferno Cannons. If they manage to come close enough to any building, no matter how fortified, they would wreck it and burn the shit out of anyone inside.
* '''Venerable Dreadnoughts:''' Simply put, they're really old Dreadnoughts that have been locked up for a long time and as such are better at fighting and... stuff. Also tend to get sleepy and lose their keys.
* '''Chaplain Dreadnoughts:''' Some Chapters have Venerable Dreadnoughts that used to be Chaplains. This basically means they have all those special effects that Chaplains do... in a Dreadnought body.

====Chapter Specific Dreads====
* '''Furioso Dreadnought:''' Heavily armored [[Blood Angels]] dreadnoughts, designed to RIP AND TEAR lots of troops in brutal close combat. Sometimes they put a blood crazed maniac from the [[Death Company]] inside, which turns Furiouso to unholy uncontrollable and unstoppable rape machine.
**'''Furioso Librarian Dreadnoughts:''' [[Blood Angels]] like to lock psykers up in Dreadnoughts, creating unholy amalgamations called Furioso Librarians. In addition to the badassery above, Furioso Librarians were once capable of flying. [[Matt Ward|WAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD]], but no longer while we are between codices.
* '''Mortis Dreadnought:''' A variant supposedly exclusive to the [[Dark Angels]] that sports two copies of the same ranged weapon, for maximum dakka. This was apparently due to the Dark Angels' talent for writing things down (for entirely practical reasons, like [[Fallen Angels|keeping track]] [[Dwarf|of grudges]], rather than writing down [[Codex Astartes|some bible for space marines]] or [[Lorgar|the reppressed/begrudging teeming masses]]) as all Legions had access to this pattern, but only the Angels remembered how to make a leftie dreadnought ranged weapon that wasn't a missile launcher.
* ''' Deathwing Dreadnoughts:''' the Dark Angels venerable dreads are all members of the inner circle and so reserve special hatred for <s>[[The Fallen]]</s> FILTHY CHAOS SCUM
* '''Doomglaive Dreadnoughts:''' A specialist dreadnoughts used by the [[Grey Knights]], comes with a nemesis force weapon and a psycannon as standard. Can attempt cleave attacks in close combat and try to hit additional dudes.
* '''Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought:''' Not exactly unique in design compared to other Venerables, but the veteran [[Space Wolves|Wolves]] intered in them are so viking that they want to keep on vikinging even after death, meaning that the [[Techmarine|Iron Wolves]] of the chapter figured out how to give them a Blizzard Shield and a fucking huge Frost Axe. They lack ranged weapons, but, you know. [[Awesome|Dreadnough-sized double-headed axe]].

===Contemptor Pattern===
[[File:Grey Knights Contemptor Dreadnought.jpg|350px|thumbnail|right|Yes, this is a Contemptor of the Grey Knights. And [[Forgeworld|no, they don't have them]]. Why the fuck did they not use these instead of the goofy [[Dreadknight]]? (Because the [[Matt Ward|Ward]], that's why.)]]
Really old Dreadnoughts from before the [[Horus Heresy]] that are bigger and stronger than "modern" Dreads. A few Chapters still have them and deploy them to the field. They look more humanoid, like an anime mech, and people get puzzled as why did they not use these instead of the goofier Dreadknight, but the reasons they ''don't'' use them are exactly the same as why they started using the Castraferrum pattern instead; plus, Contemptors are becoming rarer and rarer in 40k, because the Adeptus Mechanicus keeps forgetting how to build things competently.

They have a bunch of mysterious cybernetic/AI stuff, which probably means that you should keep these away from the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], since they like stripping them out for parts to use on their [[Legio Cybernetica|robots]]. Unlike regular Dreads, they have access to Cyclone Missile Launchers, Heavy Conversion Beamers, Chainfists, Graviton Guns, Plasma Blasters, and the Kheres-Pattern Assault Cannon. They also have an advanced Atomantic reactor which no-one knows how to make anymore, that is coupled to a field generator that gives them an invulnerable save at the expense of making a Vehicle Explodes result more dangerous.

*'''Contemptor-Mortis Dreadnoughts:''' A modified Contemptor Dreadnought most often used by the [[Dark Angels]] that puts out a massive amount of [[dakka]]... so massive, in fact, that modern autocannon Dreads live in jealousy. Also, they have targeting arrays to fire at flyers.
* '''Contemptor-Furioso Dreadnoughts:''' While any contemptor can be kitted out with two close combat weapons only the [[Blood Angels]] do this exclusively, since they don't have access to "regular" contemptors in the rules, which also means they don't get access to the cool relic weapons.

===Deredeo Pattern===
[[File:Deredeo Dreadnought.jpg|300px|thumbnail|right|When you need more [[Dakka|DAKKA]] and you have no Mortis Dreadnoughts, always bet on the Deredeo.]]

A reworking of one of the three 1st edition Dreadnought patterns (with the other two being the Furibundus and Contemptor) from [[Forge World|FW]]'s workshop. It is equipped with an Anvilus autocannon battery (which are S8 Sunder Autocannons for tank busting), torso-mounted heavy bolters/flamers, and the Aiolos missile launcher (Which always hits the side armour of enemy tanks, doesn't require line of sight to fire, can be aimed at a different target from the autocannons, and is Pinning as well). Like the Contemptor Mortis, it has Atomantic Shielding and a Helical Targeting Array to take down fliers. It can also be equipped with Armored Ceramite in the off-chance it ever gets into melta range. Alternately, it can switch out the autocannons for a twin-linked Hellfire Plasma Carronade that let's it fire off either 4 S7 AP2 shots or a single S7 AP2 Large Blast (with Gets Hot! on the latter mode). It can also replace the  missiles with an Atomantic Pavaise that improves its invulnerable save and lets anyone within 3'' of it use the save too. Since this can improve existing invulnerable saves by +1 for units which already have them, it's an ideal complement to Terminators with good ranged weapons (e.g. Tyrant Siege Terminators or anyone with an Assault Cannon).

===Other Patterns===
So far the Castraferrum, Contemptor and Deredeo are the only patterns of dreadnought that are available as models. ''(unless you count some of the chaos daemon-engines, but who knows what they started as?)''

Other types have been named though, and it is also said that some of these older pre-heresy patterns could have been piloted by non-astartes. So we can cross our fingers that more dreadnoughts may be coming eventually.
*'''Lucifer:''' Said to be the prototype for the contemptor, but doesn't have the advanced systems, instead it supposedly has shitloads of frontal armour.
*'''Furibundus'''

==Meme==
[[File:Dreadserve.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Even in death, the mighty Astartes warrior still serves for the Emperor.]]
"Even in death, I still serve" was a phrase scattered throughout Warhammer 40k, but it didn't become a [[meme]] until the original [[Dawn of War]] game, where it's one of the Dreadnought's more common quotes.

==The making of a Dreadnought==

1: Take 1 outstandingly badass [[Space Marine]]

2: Cut him in half (hopefully before he does the same to you)

3: Leave the dying body on the doorstep of some [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] guy

4: ???

5: [[Profit|PROFIT!!!]]

==Gallery==
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File:Brother koolaidius by blazbaros-d2z8e3j.png|After his internment into a Dreadnought, Brother Koolaidius has specialized in dynamic entry at any location, usually attending to battle brothers with refreshment needs.
File:Breadnought.jpg|Fear the fucking Breadnought.
File:Rapenought.jpg|Even in death, I still fuck your army.
File:Powerfisting.jpg|I have come to destroy your anus.
File:Angry_7.jpg|The Dreadnoughts of the Angry Marines are also known as the [[Belligerent Engine|Belligerent Engines]].
Image:1262002329676.jpg|Suck it.
</gallery>

==See Also==
*[[Tankred]], the original memenought.  He endures, for he is here for the bitches.
*[[Donovan]]
*[[Chaos Dreadnought]], the [[Chaos|evil]] (well, [[grimdark | more evil]]) version
*[[Grandpa Dreadnought]]
*[[Bjorn the Fell Handed]], of the [[Space Wolves]], and the oldest living [[Space Marine]] in the Imperium.
*[[Davian Thule]], of the [[Blood Ravens]], also known as Davian Cool.
*[[Belligerent Engine]], a catch-all term for the Dreadnoughts of the [[Angry Marines]].
*[[Spared]], a short story about a Dreadnought and some [[Tau]].
*[[Entombed]], a not-so-short story about a Dreadnought.

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