Legiones Astartes – Legion Deredeo Dreadnought Talon
- Legion Deredeo Dreadnought Talon 205 pts
The Deredeo pattern Dreadnought was developed as an outgrowth of the same project to improve upon the fusion of Terran and Mechanicum technology which gave birth to the first Legiones Astartes Dreadnoughts, such as the Castraferrum and Lucifer patterns. It shares many core components and systems with the hugely successful Contemptor class, but rather than being a general assault unit, the Deredeo is an expressly designed heavy weapons platform, intended to combine superior firepower with the flexibility and durability of a Dreadnought chassis. Deployed in limited numbers to each of the Legions, the Deredeo was treated as a specialist unit as it proved highly resource intensive to produce and maintain, but its undoubted survivability and killing power saw a resurgence in its use after the initial wave of internecine strife during the Horus Heresy, and it was in high demand by Traitor and Loyalist alike from the few Forge Worlds able to fashion them.
| LD | CL | WP | IN | |||||||||||
| M | WS | BS | S | T | W | I | A | LD | CL | WP | IN | SAV | INV | |
| Deredeo Dreadnought (⌀80mm) | 9 | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| Deredeo Dreadnought (⌀80mm) | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 9 | - | - | - | 2+ | - |
- Anvilus autocannon battery
- Twin-linked heavy bolter
- Four Boreas air defence missiles
- Atomantic deflector
- Helical targeting array
- Legiones Astartes (X)
- Dreadnought Talon
- Dreadnought (Heavy)
- The unit may include:
- - Up to 1 additional Legion Deredeo Dreadnought +205 points each
- Any Legion Deredeo Dreadnought in the unit may replace its Anvilus autocannon battery with one of the following:
- - Hellfire plasma cannonade +15 points each
- - Arachnus heavy lascannon battery+20 points each
- - Volkite falconetFree
- Any Legion Deredeo Dreadnought may replace its twin-linked heavy bolter with one of the following:
- - Twin-linked heavy flamerFree
- Any Legion Deredeo Dreadnought may exchange all four Boreas air defence missiles for a:
- - Aiolos missile launcher+5 points per model
The Space Marines of the Emperor’s Legions are genetically engineered, psycho-indoctrinated warriors with superhuman abilities, and minds and souls tempered for war. Each of the Legions has its own idiosyncrasies and character – the product of their gene-seed and the unique warrior cultures fostered by their masters.
Any unit with this special rule will have a number of additional special rules and abilities specific to their ‘named’ Legion, all of which will be defined in other Horus Heresy – Age of Darkness publications. A Space Marine unit may only have one such ‘named’ rule, e.g., Legiones Astartes (Sons of Horus). Space Marine units from a different Legion may only be included in an army using an Allied Detachment and in conjunction with the Allies in the Age of Darkness chart.Some weapons are capable of breaching armour with a terrifying ease, whether by specially designed munitions, careful targeting or sheer brute power.
When rolling To Wound for a model that has the Breaching (X) special rule, or is attacking with a weapon that has the Breaching (X) special rule, for each To Wound roll equal to or higher than the value listed in brackets, the controlling player must resolve these wounds at AP 2 instead of the weapon’s normal AP value. This rule has no effect on models that do not have Wounds, such as models with the Vehicle Unit Type.For example, a model with the Breaching (5+) special rule that rolls To Wound and rolls a result of ‘5’ or higher, the Wound inflicted gains an AP of ‘2’ regardless of the AP value listed on the weapon’s profile. Note that a weapon that has both the Breaching (X) and the Gets Hot special rules always uses the base AP of the weapon when rolls of ‘1’ To Hit inflict Wounds on the attacking model.
Powered by the vast glut of energy from its atomantic heart, many of the more advanced Legiones Astartes war machines entered the field of battle veiled in a protective shroud of energy that could deflect or disperse las bolts and kinetic munitions. Yet, such was the power channelled through this little-understood device that, in death, these engines of war would erupt in fiery ruin, a danger to both friend and foe.
A model with an atomantic deflector gains a 5+ Invulnerable Save and any model with an atomantic deflector and a Wounds Characteristic that suffers an unsaved Wound with the Instant Death special rule is not immediately removed as a casualty, but instead loses D3 Wounds instead of one for each unsaved Wound with the Instant Death special rule inflicted on it. In addition, when a model with an atomantic deflector loses its last Wound or Hull Point, but before it is removed as a casualty or replaced with a Wreck, all models both friendly and enemy within D6" suffer an automatic Hit at Str 8, AP -.The towering Dreadnoughts of the Legiones Astartes were often organised into informal warbands, waiting only for the start of battle to advance and bring death to the foe.
When deployed onto the battlefield (either at the start of the battle or when arriving from Reserves), all models with this special rule in a unit must be placed within unit coherency, but afterwards operate independently and are not treated as a unit.The helical targeting array is a complex system of augurs and tracking baffles. It is designed to enable a war machine’s weapons to strike true, even against the most evasive targets, and to penetrate even the most esoteric of shrouds.
The controlling player of a model with a helical targeting array may activate it at the start of any of their own turns, or, if the controlling player is not taking the first turn of the battle, at the start of the battle, before the beginning of the opposing player’s first turn. Once the helical targeting array is activated, the model is affected by the following conditions until the beginning of the controlling player’s next turn:- The model may not move, Run or declare or make any Reactions other than the Interceptor or Overwatch Reaction.
- The controlling player may choose to use the Skyfire special rule when making any Shooting Attacks with the model.
- No model may make a Damage Mitigation roll provided by the Shrouded special rule against an attack made by a model with a helical targeting array while it is active.
- When the model makes a Shooting Attack as part of the Interceptor Reaction, the Reaction does not cost the controlling player a point from their Reaction Allotment. This does not allow the unit to make more than one Reaction per Phase, but does allow the controlling player to exceed the normal three Reactions limit in a given Phase.
- When a model with the Vehicle Unit Type and a helical targeting array makes a Shooting Attack as part of the Interceptor Reaction, that model may fire all of its weapons, not just Defensive Weapons, as part of the Shooting Attack.
This datasheet has Heavy Support Battlefield Role. Full list of Legiones Astartes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows: