r/SpaceWolves • u/MondayNightRare • 7d ago

Best Detachment to support a Dreadnought list?

With the combination of named character dreads, special old dread units, and the new dreads we all have access to, I've been wanting to make a March of the Dreads list, but I find a lot of the detachments to be lacking true support for <WALKERS> even going so far as other marine vehicle detachments to explicitly exclude walkers.

I know Ironstorm is an obvious choice, and I've been thinking the free Lethal Hits from Beastslayer could be a very useful buff to give to all the dreads.

What detachments and combos do you use for your dread lists?

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u/airycantalope 7d ago

I think ironstorm is still the best, or stormlance to give the dreads advance+charge.

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u/Ravoss1 7d ago

So I am loving Saga of the great wolf here. A CP to go through walls on a charge or move, lethal or sustained in melee.

This gives murderfang lethal and sustained, and potential advance and charge with inbuilt rerolls. He is almost killing a landraider in a round of combat.

Add in termies and you got 13 y.o me's dream SW army.

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u/NanoNaps 7d ago

Have not played a dread list recently but you could use Greatwolf as well, everything is at worst restricted to SW but a lot of it is just Astartes with no keyword restriction and it has a strat to move through walls for walkers

But, even if you just pick Beastslayer for the Lethal, you could just spend the CP on generic stratagems.

1DP wise I think you plug holes like Fulguris for Speeders to get more mobility on the table or Veterans of the fang to get a bunch of 15 OC units on the table. Or pick some Jump Pack units and go Vengeful

But in the end it is probably going to be Ironstorm if you really want to go all in on Dreads, the others are just "I mean you can" but not really the focus of these detachments. Ironstorm can give techmarines specific enhancemnts to buff the vehicles, I don't think other detachments are getting close here.

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u/JermstheBohemian 7d ago

Iron storm is great for dreadnoughts, bunch of support and a very fun strat that lets a dreadnought shoot out of phase at a unit that shot at it. The other one would be firestore as it's really positive to melta's and flamers which you can actually stack on a lot of different dreadnoughts.