Dreadnought warriors are hundreds or even thousands of years old and have faithfully served the imperium for centuries, without sleep, food or cigarette breaks. If their jobs aren't secure, no-one is safe.

This Dreadnought design will always be the best. Nothing else has matched it.

I miss the banners on their tops

The single lascannon was a legacy option from the old Chuck, Eddie, and Fury dreadnought models from Rogue Trader

30+ year 40K veteran here. I gave up on 40K in 2017 because I couldn't stand the rules bloat. I 'regressed' back to 2nd Edition, and I'm loving it. With 3D printing technology being what it is, I've been able to kit out all my Marine dreadnoughts with every weapon option imaginable, and after so many years, finally have the dreadnoughts I've always wanted. 🤗

i remember when my mother tried to warn my of the dreaded multimelta. "a measly 24" range S8 Ap1. What harm can that do?" i said laughing out loud. How naive i was :(

It was the dreadnought in the first dawn of war cinematic that got me hooked on 40k.

The boxdread, still one of my all time favourite models that GW has ever produced. There is just something about it, no matter its iteration, that appeals to me, far more so than any other dread variant.

The metal Bjorn the Fell Handed holds pride of place in my collection as it was the model I purchased at the grand opening of the first Games Workshop store in Melbourne Australia. I don't collect Space Wolves at all anymore but Bjorn will always be there.

As someone who is very new to 40K I started my journey just last month with Dawn of War. Just a single Dreadnought was enough to turn to tide in those story missions and I could imagine on the field of battle seeing one arriving to the scene to lead the charge. If only I knew the tragedy of where they're at today sooner! Thank you Dreadnoughts for your unending service.

I started playing in third and it was absurd how bad these were compared to a T8 wraithlord. Shame they're being discontinued. They're iconic.

I think another thing that makes the loss of the basic dreadnought so impactful for the community is that for so many of us it was our first bigger model kit that we bought. You just finished all of your tactical marines that either came in the 40K starter box or from just a 10 man kit and now you have the confidence to try your hand at something bigger with more details so you pick up the dreadnought, plus you thought it was the most badass looking model in the space marines outside of terminators.

ah yes, 2nd Edition, I remember it well, a time of in-depth rules which made sense, which was replaced by things like "that huge battle-cannon shell missed so... it doesn't explode!" A favourite from that time was the rules for the Ork's Shock Attack Gun which had multiple damage charts depending on what you were shooting at... I'll never forget my Terminator Captain getting a Snottling imbedded in his leg and having to limp at half-speed for the rest of the battle! (I converted him after the battle and gave him the bionic leg off of the Terminator Inquisitor model!)

I am going to miss the Box-Noughts. The Redemptors just don't have the same charm to me. I am sure that is a thick pair of Nostalgia Glasses, but seeing them come to life in games like Dawn of War and THQ Space Marine was just a joy.

I wonder how many people's introduction to the dreadnought was it ambushing two banshees with a Koolaid man entry through solid rock, snatching up the banshees with its power fists like they were made of paper, crushing the first and backhand slamming it into the rocks, and as it raises the remaining foe in its power fist it simply states "I HAVE COME TO DESTROY YOU" before unleashing the full fury of his heavy flamer point blank in the eldar's face.

"...Sustained fire dice,...an average of 4.5 hits..." It was supposed to be much higher for the pay off against a chance to jam for infantry. This was raised at a Q&A at the only 2Ed tournament at WHW before 3ED was announced. The question was asked as to why the average number of shots was so low, and the responder (Gav Thorpe) stated it wasn't, as the dice had two 3s, two 2s, a 1, and a jam. This led to people taking out their dice to reveal that there were a lot of variations of sustained fire dice out in the wild! Pretty much no one in the audience had dice marked up like this, only the WHW GW staff themselves. Some had a single 3, with most having both a single 3 and also a single 2! I still have mine, straight out of the 2ed box set, and that's what I had- average 1.5 hits per die. The look on Gav's face (author of the upcoming 3Ed) indicated to me that this was going to lead to a whole change to the rulebook he'd just 'finished'...

The loss of the old Dreadnought has hit the community in such an unexpectedly hard way. No one cares about the sterngaurd veterans that much so their loss wasn't that big of a deal but the loss of the basic dreadnought has a kind of finality to it. Like even if most people didn't buy one for a very long time there was always this reassurance that it would be available to purchase if the mood ever struck you, but with it no longer available it now makes us unsure of what GW will put to chopping block next.

It was the 2nd Ed Dreadnought that got me to play 40k. I still have him. Big metal lump that if you drop on your foot you will know about it!

The powerfist got a tear attack against vehicles so it did have an advantage to being on a dreadnought

I have fond memories of my once mighty dreadnought collection. My very first dreadnought suffered from being the only armoured unit in my list, hence magnetically attracting every single anti-tank shot and falling in turn 1 or 2. I had plastic versions, librarian and Grey Knight variants, multiple forgeworld kits, redemptors, 9 in total and all of them painted. But the dreadnought I was most proud of was a full metal Bjorn the Fellhanded. Even though it sucked in game, I fielded it in every single game I played with my Space Wolves. 😊

I needed this. The news they are discontinuing the classic Dreadnought was a bad day. End if an era.

Your comment on "the ORIGINAL time of the horus heresy" hit me somewhere deep and emotional.

I’m quite certain 2ED Dreadnought power fists did have a superpower. They got a bonus to vehicle damage results due to their ability to twist and rip sheet metal, I think. Also the twin lascannon could more precisely pick out specific locations on a vehicle, which perhaps isn’t as effective as getting more than twice as many hits, but still helpful, and came with extra range over the ubiquitous AC.

My dad has like 7 dreadnoughts that haven’t seen use in like 30 years. I wanna try get him to let me have his space marine army and bring it back to playing on board

I quit 2nd edition and only returned recently........I love stuff from this era so much! This dreadnaught and the now discontinued plastic version is the coolest dread design by far

Such poetry, such beautiful for a beautiful model. 👏 👏 👏

Ah, I still remember my old Furioso absolutely terrorising the 2nd edition battlefields of the mid 90's. Heady days.

Having more or less played since the end RT, these are pure soul. The new models can only hope to have so much love poured into their sculpts and are instead soulless CAD designs, made by committee, instead of passionate artists.

Gosh i forgot how much i love the old box colors and paint jobs, really brought the memories back of going to hobby shops with my dad. I started in 3rd edition, never got to see dreadnoughts be that strong. Thanks for a wonderful video

YT algorithm brought me here, but the video presentation and narration style got my subscription. Love the channel!

I remember getting that starter box for 3rd for my birthday in high school.

I will say, Dread's are back to being absolute monsters in Heresy.

I was given an original metal Venerable dreadnought and by god I could break diamond with this thing, I always bring it to the table and somehow it being made of metal let it survive the deadliest weapons from the newest factions

I love them.

regular dreadnoughts were pretty good in 8th and 9th when the multi-melta got much better (2 shots that could take out heavy infantry or vehicles or monsters) and they were cheap and damage resistant. My Chaos dreadnought hasn't been this happy since 6th ed(?) when 3 teleporting dreadnoughts (helbrutes) was an option

The sheer mass of the old metal model also added to their intimidating presence. The satisfying thump it made when you set it down on the table. The very real threat of it tipping over and damaging your opponents models (the 2nd edition boxes didnt include a base). And gods help you if you tried to carjack someone who had one of these with them.

That 1990s battle report animation made me nostalgic. I started the hobby at the end of 2nd Edition.

Your poem at the end was the icing on the cake! Well done!

I started at 3rd. The dreadnought was the first model I bought after getting the box set; I didn’t care about the tabletop, I just loved that model! ❤

Such nostalgia in a few pictures! I remember my friend Steve Sands getting his Dark Angel's Dreadnought featured in White Dwarf

I still have my 2nd Ed Bjorn the Fell Handed. I still play him in games! I did the kit to make a quad Las Canon dreadnought, but actually my kitbashed 5 man Las Canon Long Fangs squad is pretty good value.

Damn the image you chose for this just gave me a nostalgia hit of epic propotions

The 37 points to equip a dread with the lightning claw and heavy flamer was so worth it, clones of bjorn

This is exactly what I'm planning on doing. I'm going to build a Blood Angels army, all firstborn. Starting off with a tac squad, substituting a couple of those Space marine heroes blind buy guys as tac marines so i can kitbash a lieutenant and captain out of the tac squad, then painting death company and devastators alongside kitbashing a techmarine. Using a sanguinary priest as an apothecary, and rounding the force out with those shiny new terminators, a rhino, and a furioso and venereable dread respectively. Long live Firstborn Marines!!!

Still have my 2nd edition BA Furioso with a multimelta. I recently picked up miniature painting again as a hobby (haven't painted since late 90s) and stripped my 2nd edition miniatures so not to add *another* layer of paint. Sadly I don't have my old citadel paints anymore but painting again felt good.

The best dreadnought is the one with dual hurricane bolters. It doesn't exist but it seems like it would be a really cool idea

Love the simple but effective animations Subbed!

So sad that minus modifiers and armour values are not a thing anymore...

Really enjoying these! Amongst other things, I think your writing is really sharp. Great work!

The peak of futuristic space mech design is a dead man in a box with legs, you cant convince me otherwise

I started playing RT in 87. 2nd really up'd the games playability. The dread was king however it was the cost of a dread that limited its use in games not the desire of players to play them. It cost a lot of money to buy one, and you could have a terminator squad for that much money... They really were the good ol days of gaming though, 3rd killed so many things. Biggest victim was the terminators armour save.

loved the video dude, you've really put me in the mood for learning to play 2nd edition, i started near the end of 5th, i've always wanted to try the "fluffier" editions of 40k

I started (and ended) in 2nd edition, so I'm saddened to learn the fate of one of my fave units.

Is it possible to feel nostalgic for something that died 2 years before you were born and never got to interact with? Im loving this channel. This older view of warhammer a focus on things I recognize from Dawn Of War and my ancient White Dwarf compendium

My assault cannon / twin heavy bolter shreadnaught was the best thing in my 2nd Ed marine army. Man that thing killed a lot of stuff. Also, loved the bit on the old multi-melta.

Thank you 😢 Great video ❤

Another great video mate! I’ve been trying to get my hands an old boxdread for a while.

You are speaking deeply to my soul with this channel... right down to the pork pies and scotch eggs!!

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!

I cried at the end thank you

Those old WD battle reports maps on the thumbnail were so good…

I had one of these inb1996 It was soooo heavy. It hardly stayed together. The legs to body and the arms. Would get so glued together.

I still have that metal Ultramarine dreadnought, btw. My kids arw so used to plastic models, when I handed it to 'em the reaction was pricelss. And I was waiting coiled to spring into action in case it got dropped - as much to save someone getting a broken foot as the model breaking, which with this guy would just mean beding a banner back straight or gluing an arm back on

Great video! I remember being disappointed at how unremarkable the Dreadnaughts were in Epic. And then yes... A few years later they were unremarkable in 40 K too.

Great video sir!

I have my 5 Dreads from the times of 2nd and 3rd edition. And yes they only have stadard loatouts, cause i did not know to modify metal at that time

i got like 5 of the old tin models, they are around 25 years old. they still serve till this day.

The feels 😭

I used to used my Dark Angels Dreadnought in every battle. The thing was unkillable. I once had a two on one battle fighting against a Chaos marine army and a traitor guard tank company and my Dread almost singlehandedly won the game. He killed a hellhound, two Leman Russ tanks, and put the final shot into a deamon prince, all while being dead centre in the board and being shot at by nearly the whole tank army. Eventually the Dreadnought was immobilized, and lost its missile launcher, but it survived, still firing till the end of the game. The guard player wad furious that he couldn't kill it.

In 2nd edition, a buddy of mine would always bring his dreadnought. I did not have one of these. But what I did have was a Blood Angels Captain with a jump pack and power fist. I would leap at the dreadnought, charge it, and somehow roll lucky enough to strike the sarcophagus and rip the dude out of it. That was one way of dealing with them, apparently.

Another fantastic vid! Luckily we still have 2ed❤️🙏

Even in death, he still surfs

I still have my metal bjorn the fell handed dreadnought and it's still one of my favourite models, i love how heavy it is too

The ironclad dreadnought was the second model I bought when I started playing 40k, I have had a deep love for all dreadnoughts and that lament at the end was unfairly playing with my emotions sir.

I loved these weapons loadouts. I always enjoyed poring over the Titan weapons available in the original Epic: Space Marine. There were so many cool weapons there....

Ok this old style icons and hit markers send me right back to my first ever battle report, inside my first ever White Dwarf, wityh the titan imperator on the cover. I miss these, when the WD was more than just a glorified catalog of new stuff.

Another great video! I still love my old dreadnoughts!

I took my old Ultramarine Dreadnought out for a spin in a HH game not long ago. A long with a bunch of other RT era old hammer space marines. It felt really good.

This was great !!! Nostalgia overload! Thanks for your lament to Dreadnoughts. They were great! May the Emperor Protect !

"Even in death, i still surf!"

I believe the reason for arming with a single lascannon was simply a WYSIWYG nod to some Rogue Trader era Dreadnought models which were only armed with a single lascannon (or equivalent energy weapon. One of them had a conversion beam disrupter).

Some serious nostalgia in this video

As an avid oldhammer player of 2004hammer, I can confirm that Dreadnoughts are in fact horrifying to face in 3rd and 4th edition. They hit with the force of a railgun and most troops can't hurt them once they're in combat. And they can wade through area terrain with no fear of getting stuck. 10/10 would use an Elites choice for

This is the youtube content i crave

Loved this era of 40k (though I also enjoyed Rogue Trader) and the Dreadnaught was one of my favorite models. I still have my beaky Chaos Dread, but my marines have one from 3rd Ed, with the cadaverous marine peaking out the top of the sarcophagus. So much fun :)

Enjoyed this, well done :)

The fallen shall be remembered as the Emperor's finest

I like 3rd but we can all agree that 2nd has janky but charming rules that make it special.

A marine Dread almost always defeated any Titans in HTH … it was funny and sad to see the little guy bring down a Giant!!

My favorite “ here deal with this” model back in the day. Never relied on him to win the day, but oh boy did he hold up good portions of the enemy army if I played him well.

This video is absolutely amazing. I love your content. Please make more and keep them coming. You are inspiring!! I have an old dread. He’s waiting patiently for me to paint him in howling griffons colours!

I love this model. I got into 40k in the RT era. Second edition was my thing and I drifted away late in the third. I still have all my old school metal dreads, several kit bashed with alternate weapons. This was also the time when kitbashing was critical. The Land Raider was out of production for years so we would make them out of Leman Russ kits.

Also? Powerfist had its nifty tear attack, allowing it to mess up Tanks better.

My new Space Marine army will definitely have all the back banners they deserve, Primaris or Firstborn, doesn't matter.

was always way above what i could aford as trainee

2nd was great fun, i use to love the old pop up attacks from skimmers like the Falcon grav tank

Terrific video! The design of those metal dreads is truly peerless and I love how fearsome they are on the tabletop. Bjorn's special rules are absolutely nails! I seem to remember most people didnt attach them to a base as this sturdy boy could stand on his own two feet.

If you werne't playing tournaments the old boxnaughts have always been pretty cool, at least through to 6th where I stayed at. While not as crazy as they used to be, they were still decent and they do look really cool in a small army.

I’m a Grey Knights main player, so I can only use the little box dreads. I love mine and use them very often.

I miss the older lore, the older rules... and the older style of the models. In their inaccuracies and quirks, with their overly large heads and angry little faces, hunched shoulders and physically questionable poses, hulking, angular armour and ridiculously large guns, they had the glimmer of the soul; the same spark of unique artistry that defined the entire franchise. They were stylised; they were representative. They were the physical manifestation of rock album covers, secondary school sketches, and hazy memories of watching gory horror films late at night. They were the spirit of an entire generation. When I was a child, I did medieval re-enactment, and I attended one particular battle in France. At this event, a couple of blokes got blasted by a cannon that exploded itself. Had to be airlifted out. I find out years later, one of them was a sculptor for Citadel. And it made perfect sense; in the artistry behind old-school Warhammer, there was that same lunatic spirit of the kind of people who dress up in medieval clothes and recreate historical battles for fun. The modern stuff is... the spirit of a corporation. I see nothing of my childhood in the modern GW lineup; nothing of that rebellious creativity.