Soulstorm/Dreadnought

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Dreadnought Vehicle
	Faction	Space Marines	Health	4780		Buy	Reinf.
	Tier	2	Morale			170
	Built by	Soulstorm/Machine Cult, Orbital Relay	Sight radius	30		305
	Armor	Vehicle Medium	Detect radius	0
	Mass	50	Speed	18		3
			Model count	/	Build time	30
	Powerful walker. Can be built at Orbital Relay in order to be deep-strike.						Data version: 1.2

Dreadnought

"Even in death, I still serve."

The Space Marines' Dreadnought is the sarcophagus of a mighty warrior. Should a prestigious Space Marine fall in battle, they are entombed within a Dreadnought, their centuries of experience made useful even after their death.

Tactics

As Space Marine armies are primarily focused on ranged units, Dreadnoughts are a powerful close combat unit that can hold down enemy forces. The ability to Deep Strike makes them excellent for sneak attacks on enemy bases, provided you have a spotter (Skull Probes and Assault Marine Squads work best). Upgrades can make them very versatile.

The Dreadnought's ranged weaponry is quite powerful, so upgrading the dreadnought with a ranged weapon to deal with enemies that won't stay put long enough to smash with its fists can keep the Dreadnought versatile. However, adding a ranged weapon removes one Dreadnought Fist. The best way to deal with this is have all Dreadnoughts start without a ranged weapon, then when they get damaged past half health, upgrade with a ranged weapon. Also, move them out of melee combat, and set onto ranged stance, to prolong the life of your Dreadnought.

In melee combat, Dreadnoughts are generally effective against infantry but can also inflict a considerable amount of damage on light vehicles and lightly armored structures like Fortified Positions, Waaagh! Banners and Plasma Generators. Upgrading them with Assault Cannons will make them even more devastating against infantry whilst upgrading them with a Lascannon will increase effectiveness against other combat vehicles and structures.

Abilities

Death Explosion

	Death Explosion
[1]	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any
	Range	Self
	Area of effect	8	Cooldown time	None
Effects	When the Dreadnought is destroyed, there is a 25% chance that any units within the area of effect will be sent flying (35-45 force) and take 10 morale damage.

Weapons

Flamer

	Flamer
[2] Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 35.0 30.0 25.0 20.0 16.0 20.0 12.0 8.0 1.0 1.0 14.0 10.0 1.0 20.0 1.0 25 25 45.0 55.0 0.5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	10	Setup Time	None
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	0.5 s
Area of Effect	Range of 10 in a 20 degree arc	Requires	Nothing
Notes	Reduces the target's health by 1 every second for 8 s (does not stack).

Dreadnought Close-combat Weapon

The Dreadnought comes with two close-combat weapons, but have been listed here only once because the values are the same for both.

	Dreadnought Close-combat Weapon
[3] Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 105.5 87.9 82.6 96.7 84.4 52.7 126.6 112.5 70.3 23.4 76.2 29.3 52.7 96.7 70.3 21.7 100 324.5 396.6 10.0
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	None
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Nothing
Notes	The permanent Dreadnought close-combat weapon has a 0.75 s reload but has only 75% the base damage, giving it the same physical DPS but a higher morale DPS at 32.5.

Weapon Upgrades

If upgraded the new weapon replaces a Dreadnought close-combat weapon.

Assault Cannon

	Assault Cannon				Hotkey: C
[4] Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 43.0 45.7 41.6 28.7 14.3 9.8 46.8 23.4 3.3 46.8 26.3 16.6 27.3 27.8 3.3 6.5 4.0 25.0 35.0 1.0
Cost	[5] 30 [6] 70	Range	30	Setup Time	None
Build Time	20 s	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	0.2 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Nothing

Twin-Linked Lascannon

	Twin-Linked Lascannon				Hotkey: W
[7] Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 33.1 35.2 32.0 22.1 11.0 5.3 72.0 36.0 10.0 72.0 40.5 25.5 42.0 28.6 10.0 6.7 50 337.5 412.5 20.0
Cost	[8] 30 [9] 70	Range	35	Setup Time	None
Build Time	20 s	Accuracy	65%	Refire Rate	3 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Fortress Monastery

Additional links

Source : http://web.archive.org/web/20100810084000/http://wiki.reliccommunity.com/index.php?title=Dreadnought