Swapping Dreadnoughts (Fluff)

[Custodian Athiair]

Just had a thought, with the new Dreadnought about to wage war (via the new shiny codex).

 

Is it possible for a "marine" to change Dreadnought chassis? I always thought that the thing that the marine couldn't change was the sarcophagus, which makes sense kinda they get taken out they die.

 

But more dreadnoughts seem to have a thing of removable sarcophagi to take the marine out and put him to sleep before putting him back to fight again.

 

If this is the case then surely they could start putting legendary heroes who are in old Dreadnought bodies into the new Redepmtor dreadnought so they can mess things up even more so?

[Blindhamster]

Keep in mind that the redemptor burns it's pilots out. I imagine that is reason enough to keep knowledgeable hero's out of them.

[Machine God]

Probably quite possible in the more technically proficent chapters such as Iron Hands.

 

Hmm, Omni-Dreadnoughts.

[Race Bannon]

Sure, why not?

[Custodian Athiair]

Keep in mind that the redemptor burns it's pilots out. I imagine that is reason enough to keep knowledgeable hero's out of them.

I wasn't not aware of this. Where has this been said?

[Blindhamster]

The community Facebook page posted a thing about each kind of dreadnaught, it was noted there I think. Edited July 19, 2017 by Blindhamster

[Arkangilos]

Yeah. It was a picture that had Dreadnaughts, Venerable, Ironclad, Contemptor, and Redemptor. They burn out :(

[Cryptix]

That Red Scorpions Dreadnought hero was getting placed in a Leviathan dreadnought as of Fires of Cyraxis IIRC?

[Laughingman]

If I recall in the first Horus Heresy book, they have a picture of a loyalist world eaters Dreadnought who was originally interned inside a Lucifer pattern and later transferred into a Contemptor dreadnought. With the loss of technical knowledge such a conversion might be rarer in the modern 40k. 

[Kua]

I don’t see a problem with a sarcophagus changing its chassis, but I’d rather not put a battle brother I value into a Redemptor or Leviathan. Even if he’d get extra wounds for the duration of a battle on the board.

[Tyberos the Red Wake]

That Red Scorpions Dreadnought hero was getting placed in a Leviathan dreadnought as of Fires of Cyraxis IIRC?

 

He was a Terminator before being put in the Leviathan. There was no lore of him being crippled and put in a Dreadnought until we heard about Fires of Cyraxis.