Editing Dreadnought (section)

===Deredeo Pattern===
[[File:Deredeo Dreadnought.jpg|300px|thumbnail|right|Bet on Deredeo when you need more [[Dakka|DAKKA]] but got no Mortis.]]
The <s>Dorito</s> Deredeo is a dedicated heavy weapons platform, rather than a general purpose chassis like the Castraferrum or the Contemptor. To this end it gets access to specialized wargear which cannot be found anywhere else, like a tank busting version of an autocannon or a unique plasma battery.

Developed alongside the Castraferrum Pattern and Lucifer Pattern, the Deredeo Pattern was designed as a heavy assault platform. Rather than being a general assault unit like others of its kind, the Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought is a dedicated heavy weapons platform, intended to combine superior firepower with the flexibility and durability of a Dreadnought chassis. It was initially deployed in limited numbers to each of the Legions due to difficulties in its manufacture, its durability and firepower saw demand for the Deredeo pattern increase after the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.

The model is 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 S7 Sunder Autocannons for tank busting), torso-mounted [[Heavy Bolter|heavy bolters]]/[[Heavy Flamer|flamers,]] and the [[Aiolos Missile Launcher]] (<s>which always hits the side armour of enemy tanks, doesn't require line of sight to fire,</s> 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 Armoured 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 lets it fire off either 4 S7 AP2 shots or a single S7 AP2 Large Blast (with Gets Hot! on the latter mode, not that it matters much since it's still twin-linked), or an [[Arachnus Heavy Lascannon Battery]], which isn't twin-linked but does fire 2 S10 AP2 shots, and if its shots score a penetrating hit on a vehicle the shot has a 50% chance of having it count as TWO penetrating hits instead of one! In Horus Heresy games it can also replace the missile launcher with an Atomantic Pavaise that improves its invulnerable save and lets anyone within 3" of it use the save too, at the expense of a larger explosion radius if it ever goes down. 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).

They will soon be receiving two new options: a set of four [[Boreas Air Defence Missile]]s, which are one use but hit hard (S8 AP2 Heavy 1) and cancel Jink saves, and the [[Volkite Falconet Battery|Volkite Falconet]], which spits out a considerable number of Deflagrate-inducing shots (Heavy 6 S7 AP2) and causes infantry that survive getting wounded by it to only fire snap shots.
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