Dreadnoughts are a combination of armoured walker and cybernetic life-support system; their pilots are neurally linked straight into the Dreadnought's cybernetic systems, and are able to use the walker as if it were their own body, although they are permanently entombed within its Ceramite skin until they are destroyed.
A trio of Ultramarines Dreadnoughts provide covering fire, including, from left to right, a Castraferrum Dreadnought, a Venerable Dreadnought and an Ironclad Dreadnought.
When the greatest of the Astartes are crippled in combat the Battle-Brother's body will be repaired and transferred into an armoured cyborganic sarcophagus outfitted with extensive life support systems.
This sarcophagus is then interred within the heart of the armoured body of a Dreadnought if there is even a spark of life left. The pilot himself survives only as a tightly curled and shrivelled organic component deep inside the Dreadnought, which is at once his reborn body and his tomb.
Sustained and kept alive within the sarcophagus, the link between his physical being and the Dreadnought's systems is absolute and for the remainder of his life.
The Space Marine within the sarcophagus will control the robotic body of the walker and experience the outside world through a web of cyborganic neural links and sensors implanted within his life support systems.
The sepulchre that contains a Chapter's Dreadnoughts is a holy shrine, and the Techmarines tend to their charges with great care, fastidiously applying sacred oils and unguents while chanting the Litanies of Preservation. To honour these courageous warriors, the fallen heroes are allowed to sleep away the centuries, until need calls them to war once more. The Space Marines encased within Dreadnoughts are often thousands of Terran years old.
As a result of their great age, many Dreadnoughts, known as Venerable Dreadnoughts , are not only approached by their Battle-Brothers for support in combat, but also as advisors in the governance of their Chapter. The oldest Dreadnought in the Imperium, Bjorn the Fell-Handed of the Space Wolves , was a member of the Primarch Leman Russ ' retinue and fought in the Horus Heresy when he was still whole of body, making him well over 10, standard Terran years old.
When the Dreadnoughts are not in use by their Chapter, they are placed back into the Chapter's Chapel in its fortress-monastery to sleep away the centuries in a form of suspended animation until they are needed once more. Dreadnoughts have their roots far back in the Dark Age of Technology , and have endured in idiosyncratic forms both on Mars and with the techno-barbaric warlords of Terra as well as scattered human realms throughout the Age of Strife.
Some of these individual relics were still in service during the Great Crusade and early years of the Horus Heresy -- although many times re-tenanted over the millennia. Brought together under the banner of the Imperium, many patterns of Dreadnoughts existed and it was in latter-day conjunction with the superhuman physiology of the Space Marines that this technology had reached its zenith.
By the 41st Millennium, the art of their construction has long since been lost, the arcane knowledge required passing into ritualised mythology, and each Chapter's Dreadnoughts are treasured relics. They are a living embodiment of the Machine God , representing the ultimate fusion of the biological and the mechanical, as each one contains a living, sentient being. The pilots encased in the shell of a Dreadnought often have memories stretching back for millennia, and these ancient warriors are a tangible link to their Chapter's past and heritage.
In the 41st Millennium there exist few examples of Dreadnought patterns beyond the Castraferrum pattern, with the more advanced Contemptor Pattern Dreadnoughts being an extremely rare sight. Other patterns, such as the Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought and Leviathan Pattern Siege Dreadnought are even rarer, with very few examples known to still exist, only to be removed from a Chapter 's armoury during the times of greatest desperation.
The following section detail all known information on the Castraferrum Dreadnought. In appearance, the Castraferrum is very different from other types, very few of which exist outside of the stasis-sealed reliquary chambers of the Adeptus Astartes. It is not as tall as such venerated relics as the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought and its armour is said to be configured far more to the fore than the unhallowed Lucifer Pattern Dreadnought.
Some claim that the older Unification classes of proto-Dreadnoughts dating back to the time of the Unification Wars could be piloted by non-Astartes warriors, but the Castraferrum can only be fully controlled by a Space Marine, thanks to his unique physiology and mental conditioning. Ancient and incomplete archival fragments suggest that the Castraferrum Pattern was introduced in order to meet a range of tactical challenges.
It is configured for direct assaults, the Ironclad Dreadnought being the ultimate expression of this role. It also excels in Zone Mortalis missions such as starship boarding actions, tunnel fights and combat deep inside densely built hive cities.
Here, its lower profile allows the Castraferrum to negotiate low-ceilinged passageways that the taller Contemptor Pattern would be unable to pass along. The true reason, however, that the Castraferrum remains in common use while the Contemptor and other patterns are rarely seen lies with the technology utilised within its many systems.
Instead of the ill-understood Atomantic Arc Reactors and Helical Targeting Arrays of the Contemptor Pattern, the Castraferrum uses an adaptable thermic reactor and other such technological systems already found within a wide range of current Adeptus Astartes war machines. Though the Dreadnought's Power Fist shares the same name, it is not at all similar to the melee weapons also called Power Fists used by other armed forces of the Imperium. Unrestricted by size or weight, Dreadnought Power Fists are vastly more powerful than ones carried by Imperial infantrymen, even Space Marine Terminators.
The Dreadnought's Power Fist is like the unwieldy infantry-borne Power Fist and Chainfist strikingly effective against heavy armour. This, combined with the Dreadnought's own impressive unmodified strength makes the fist deadly to all, even heavily armoured foes like a Space Marine Chapter Master.
Also, the Dreadnought's heavy vehicle armour means that even those that survive the initial assault can do little more than wait for the inevitable. Any Legion Castraferrum Dreadnought may replace their twin-linked Heavy Bolters with any of these options:. The Castraferrum Pattern Dreadnought can be equipped with a wide variety of weapons and equipment other than its standard load-outs.
Many times these load-outs have their own designation and are intended for different battlefield roles. All known variants of the Castraferrum Pattern Dreadnought are as follows:.
An Ironclad Dreadnought of the Ultramarines Chapter. There are several Castraferrum Dreadnought variants that are used exclusively by certain Chapters, and these Dreadnoughts are used only by these Chapters and any Successor Chapters they may have.
The known Chapter-Specific Castraferrum Dreadnought variants are as follows:. Having earned many millennia worth of combat experience, Venerable Dreadnoughts are even harder to destroy than their younger counterparts. However, as a trade-off for their knowledge, they are armed with older, more volatile and usually less effective weaponry. Venerable Dreadnoughts often are a drain on their Chapter's resources, for their millennia-old pilot becomes harder and harder to rouse with the passing of time, and their even more ancient chassis are prone to malfunction, with the parts needed to update them no longer available.
A sizeable portion of a Master of the Forge 's attentions is spent caring for his Chapter's Ancients, with the ever-lurking risk of the Venerable Dreadnought simply not waking again. Yet no Chapter would ever consider granting the Emperor's Peace to its Ancients, for they are the wardens of a Chapter's history and traditions, for only they can still remember first-hand what now only resides in the mouldering tomes of the Chapter's Librarium.
Some of these ancient behemoths no longer resemble the current mass production Mars Pattern Mark V Dreadnoughts and are bulky and cumbersome. Others stand towering over their foes like elegantly-crafted statues ready to smite their enemies. It is now nearly impossible for most Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes to construct new Dreadnought chassis from scratch, as the technology and know-how is no longer available to the Imperium.
Now the Chapter maintains relatively few Dreadnoughts relative to other Astartes formations, since they were unable to replace these losses. As such, Venerable Dreadnoughts are a scarce resource for their Chapters, since any damage they suffer must be replaced by using stockpiles of ancient parts or cannibalising already extant Dreadnought chassis of a similar pattern and make.
He is the oldest Dreadnought currently in service in the Imperium and was once a member of the Primarch Leman Russ ' personal retinue. The most esteemed member of the Space Wolves, Bjorn is the only being the current Great Wolf will listen to and if necessary defer to, and is reverently woken once in each standard century.
At that time, all the Space Wolves present, from the Great Wolf to the youngest Blood Claw , raptly and silently gather around the Ancient to hear him speak of their Primarch Leman Russ, and keep the Space Wolves' ancient oral tradition alive.
Oddly, the Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought released by Games Workshop is similar in design to the standard Mark V Dreadnought save for the Space Wolves tokens and possessing a metal blister instead of plastic , while the "generic" Venerable Dreadnought is an ornately decorated war machine. The term "Proto-Dreadnought" encompasses the myriad Dreadnought patterns that that have been used by humanity since the Dark Age of Technology.
These Dreadnoughts, which were capable of being piloted by unenhanced humans, have endured in many idiosyncratic forms both on Mars and with the techno-barbaric warlords of Terra as well as in the many scattered human realms throughout the Age of Strife. With the coming of the Imperium of Man during the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium, these Dreadnoughts have been brought together under the banner of the Emperor of Mankind. There exist many patterns of Dreadnought and it is in latter-day conjunction with the superhuman physiology of the Space Marines that this technology has reached its zenith.
A Furibundus Pattern Dreadnought. The Furibundus Pattern Dreadnought was one of the earliest patterns of Dreadnought that was used by the Legiones Astartes. There exists little information on this pattern within current Imperial records. The Furibundus Dreadnought was similar in stature to the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought , with a more rounded and squat chassis and legs. The unhallowed and dreaded Lucifer Pattern Dreadnought is one of the oldest patterns of Dreadnought known to current Imperial savants.
There exists little information on the Lucifer Pattern, with only vague descriptions implying that the armour configuration of the Castraferrum Pattern Dreadnought is far more to the fore than on the Lucifer. During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras, the Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought was a dedicated heavy support Dreadnought frame, though it shared many core components and systems with the more general assault-based Contemptor Pattern.
Initially deployed in limited numbers to each of the Space Marine Legions due to difficulties in its manufacture, its durability and firepower saw demand for the Deredeo Pattern dramatically increase after the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. One of the primary weapon systems the Deredeo could mount was the twin-linked Anvilus Autocannon Battery , a fearsome development of the existing Autocannon pattern that could engage and destroy armoured targets with a punishing salvo of fire.
The carapace of the Deredeo could also mount additional weapons and support systems, including twin-linked Heavy Bolters or Heavy Flamers for close-in defence as well as the advanced Aiolos Missile Launcher which, with its sophisticated targetting system, could track targets independently of the primary weapons system and regardless of intervening terrain.
The Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought is an ancient Imperial cybernetic combat walker used by the Space Marines in the days of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy , 10, Terran years before the present day. Like the current patterns of Dreadnoughts now in service, the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought served as a cybernetic sarcophagus for an Astartes who had been so badly wounded in battle that his only chance for continued service to the Emperor lay in being interred within the cybernetic sarcophagus of a Dreadnought.
The Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought, like much of the technology developed at the dawn of the Imperium of Man , is larger and more powerful than its standard pattern counterparts and was once a key part of the earliest Space Marine Legion forces raised on Terra in the 31st Millennium to initiate the Great Crusade. Such relics are sometimes recovered as archeotech by the Imperium in the 41st Millennium and then used to supplement the forces of the present-day Space Marine Chapters.
Evidence of their ancient origins exist in the forms of sacred Chapter memento mori and other ancient Imperial monuments raised on worlds such as Necromunda and Lorin Alpha. This suggests that the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought played an integral part in the earliest Astartes forces raised on Terra for the Great Crusade. A more powerful combat walker than the current patterns of Dreadnought in service with the Adeptus Astartes , the Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought featured many technological systems that found a parallel in the combat robots of the ancient Legio Cybernetica , including such fabled techno-arcana as Atomantic Field Generator technology that would later be refined and incorporated into the Storm Shields used by Space Marine Terminators and other now-lost secrets from the Dark Age of Technology that were meshed with the Contemptor's basic systems.
During the Horus Heresy and the wars that followed in its wake like the Great Scouring , they bore the brunt of the fighting by Dreadnoughts in every theater and as a result suffered the heaviest losses.
Like so many of the Imperium's most advanced and sophisticated war-fighting technologies, the ability to manufacture and maintain the Contemptor Dreadnought was essentially lost in the chaotic aftermath of the Heresy. The few of these relics that remain in service in the 41st Millennium are incredibly rare pieces of archeotech even in comparison to their fellow Dreadnoughts.
But when they take to the field, it is as a living reminder of the Golden Age of the Imperium when the Emperor still walked amongst Mankind , and the foes of humanity tremble at the sight of its ancient glory. A new day, a new time zone. Ultimately, venerable is more of a title than a model kit, until that one with the helmet came out. I imagine it's people who either don't know what they're talking about or are hoping it can eke them a few dollars more.
It's like, you could completely legally use a starter set monopose marine sergeant as a captain with bad wargear, but if you're buying a captain model, you're probably looking for a captain model, not a "you could use this as a captain" model.
Yeah, I agree. I have my dreadnoughts and was going to buy a dreadnought ven when I found a good oop one or if my friend paints and sells me his. But on ebay there were just a bunch saying the older were ven dreadnoughts.
MechaEmperor wrote: That specific one I'd say they should just call it a Dreadnought, as at no point in history was that model ever advertised as a "Venerable Dreadnought". I don't break the rules but I'll bend them as far as they'll go. Dakka Wolf wrote: MechaEmperor wrote: That specific one I'd say they should just call it a Dreadnought, as at no point in history was that model ever advertised as a "Venerable Dreadnought".
MechaEmperor wrote: Dakka Wolf wrote: MechaEmperor wrote: That specific one I'd say they should just call it a Dreadnought, as at no point in history was that model ever advertised as a "Venerable Dreadnought". In that case, it might not be the person trying to gouge money, but legitimately thought it would be named as such because the product he bought at one point was called "Venerable Dreadnought".
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Hey everyone, I've been looking at the old trading website that shall not be named and a bunch of people are listing dreadnoughts as "venerable dreadnoughts" that look like this the image is my two dreadnoughts before I repaired and repainted them but the ones online look exactly the same : Spoiler : Am I crazy or are these just normal dreadnoughts? Those brothers of the Adeptus Astartes who are too mangled to continue serving in Power Armor, but whose will to fit lives on, are chosen to be interred in the sarcophagus of a Dreadnought.
In this way the Space Marine can continue his mission for the Emperor and his chapter for centuries beyond that of a normal Space Marine. Those interred in this way can be truly ancient, the Space Wolves dreadnought known as Bjorn the Fellhanded fought alongside Russ himself at the Battle of Prospero. Through the editions the use of Dreadnoughts, Dreads, has ebbed and flowed and the weaponry given them has adjusted to the meta. One of the coolest parts about the Dreadnought is their flexibility.
The standard dreadnought has long been a part of the hobby, including some lists that could run all dreadnoughts in several editions. The Ironclad was introduced in 5th edition and has some very nice options for weaponry along with a more stable platform than the normal. In modern 40k you often see the. The most common way you see Dreads fielded are as part of a Battle Company, these are usually going to be Ironclad dreads in Drop Pods.
If you want to try your hand at a gun line style Marine list that uses one of the Dread heavy formations of even a CAD then the Venerable Dreadnought makes sense to take. Take a squadron of 3, give them all Twin-Linked Autocannons on both arms and have the BS 5 unit go to town, the good old Rifleman Dread.. They would be a great addition to a list that was Grav Heavy. A lot of grav heavy lists can become mired down against armor or flyers when a lot of those 6s fail to show up for you.
Building in redundancy is a key part to succeeding at 40k. Any unit that can provide redundancy will help you out.
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