Hellfire Dreadnought

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Hellfire Dreadnought
Race	Space Marines
Version	Dark Crusade v1.2 Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey H	Build Cost 100 250  3 Build Time 30 s Built By Machine Cult, Orbital Relay Requires Nothing Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	3250
Armour	Vehicle Medium
Unit Mass	50
Move Speed	18
Sight Radius	30 (cannot detect)
Weapons
Ranged	Assault Cannon, Hellfire Missile Launcher
Melee	None

Contents 1 Hellfire Dreadnought 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Death Explosion 4 Weapons 4.1 Assault Cannon 4.2 Hellfire Missile Launcher 5 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Hellfire Dreadnought

"It is better to die for the Emperor than to live for yourself."

A variant of the standard pattern Dreadnought that foregoes its brother's immense melee power for more ranged weaponry. Armed with an Assault Cannon and Hellfire Missile Launcher, its main forte is holding off infantry, but it can also be employed to destroy lighter vehicles. Its Hellfire Missile Launcher does incredible knockback, throwing even light vehicles around. However, in a face-off with heavier armour, or infantry with anti-tank capability it rarely holds up well.

Tactics

The main differences between Hellfire Dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts is that Hellfire Dreadnoughts are cheaper, have less health, and have no close combat attack. In general, Hellfire Dreadnoughts are best avoided. While they certainly outperform Dreadnoughts in ranged combat, Dreadnoughts only use ranged combat en route to melee combat or when severely injured, and trying to survive. Also, Predators are much more effective at ranged combat once available, and are not that much more expensive. There may be situations in which you are forced into using Hellfire Dreadnoughts, but this is probably a result of limited resources, rather than out of choice.

However, the Hellfire shines in disruption. Against masses of ranged troops a skilled opponent will simply dance away from your Dreadnoughts. Although this disrupts the enemy troops, it does no damage. Hellfires can disrupt the enemy troops while still dealing damage. A Whirlwind's mighty damage and range can be added to the mix for further chaos.

Abilities

Death Explosion

	Death Explosion
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any
	Range	Self
	Area of effect	8	Cooldown time	None
Effects	When the Hellfire 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

Assault Cannon

	Assault Cannon
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: 31.5 38.9 35.0 21.0 8.6 8.0 10.2 7.0 3.3 10.2 12.5 4.4 7.4 21.0 3.3 6.5 4 19.3 23.6 1
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	30	Setup Time	None
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	70%	Refire Rate	0.2 s
Area of Effect	None	Requires	Nothing

Hellfire Missile Launcher

	Hellfire Missile Launcher
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: 26.3 15.0 11.2 11.2 18.6 8.3 29.1 22.1 14.4 29.1 14.9 11.2 8.3 11.2 14.3 8.3 50 211.1 235.8 25
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	45	Setup Time	None
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	3 s
Area of Effect	4	Requires	Nothing
Notes	This weapon does knockback to all units (41-61 force), but only damages enemy units.

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