Redemptor Dreadnought

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Redemptor Dreadnought^[4]

The Redemptor Dreadnought is a newly created variation of the Space Marine Dreadnought and is designed to allow maimed Primaris Space Marines to continue to fight the Imperium's many enemies.^[1]

Overview

Blood Angels Redemptor Dreadnought

Taller, broader and more cleverly wrought than the traditional Dreadnought design, these goliaths are powered by hyper-dense reactors and sophisticated fibre bundles. Such is the miraculous design of the Redemptor’s neural links that its inhabitant, despite being entombed in the sarcophagus within the Dreadnought’s chest, can exercise control with surprising dexterity and speed.^[3]

The Mechanicum Tech-Priests that first built these walking machines of destruction spared little thought to the health of the incumbent, seeing him as little more than another part to be interred or replaced as necessary. Many of those Redemptors that have fought for a sustained period have already had their sarcophagi replaced, their original pilots burned out by the intensity of the machine’s destructive prowess.^[4] Sometimes the Dreadnought's surging energies leech the occupant’s life force until he is reduced to nothing but a sac of blackened organs, fit only to be reinterred, this time in a true mausoleum dedicated to his selfless sacrifice.^[5]

Redemptor Dreadnoughts wield an array of devastating weaponry including a Onslaught Heavy Gatling Cannon or Macro Plasma Incinerator on its right arm and a Redemptor Fist with Heavy Flamer or Onslaught Gatling Cannon on its left. It is also equipped with 2 chest-mounted fragstorm grenade launchers or storm bolters and a carapace-mounted Icarus Rocket Pod for air defence.^[3]

Variants

Ballistus Dreadnought

The Ballistus is a ranged-focused variant of the Redemptor that is armed with a versatile missile launcher and a devastating lascannon.^[7]

Brutalis Dreadnought

Brutalis are a melee-focused variant of the Redemptor that is armed with Brutalis Fists (with built-in bolt rifles) or Claws along with twin Icarus Ironhail Heavy Stubbers and twin multi-meltas or heavy bolters.^[6]

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  Redemptor Dreadnought
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  Ballistus Dreadnought^[7]
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  Brutalis Dreadnought^[6]

Notable Redemptor Dreadnoughts

• Alessor - Blood Angels (Brutalis Dreadnought)
• Asger - Space Wolves
• Gideon - Deathwatch
• Indomator - Ultramarines
• Kurggar Fyrfist - Space Wolves
• Lazarius - Silver Skulls
• Malcades - Ultramarines, the first Primaris Space Marine to fall in Ultramar.
• Marius - Ultramarines
• Oriax - Sons of Guilliman
• Purgatus Rex - Deathwatch
• Rahellion - Deathwatch
• Scipius - Ultramarines (Ballistus Dreadnought)
• Tallus - Dark Angels
• Valtus - Ultramarines
• Zachorial - Deathwatch

Usage by Chaos

It has been observed that Chaos can corrupt a Redemptor Dreadnought chassis.^[8]

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  Nurgle corrupted Redemptor Dreadnought^[8]

Usage by Xenos

The Orks, or at least Freebooters, are capable of looting a Redemptor Dreadnought^[9]

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  Da Blakk Skull Raiderz looted Redemptor Dreadnought^[9]

See also

• Primaris Space Marine Armoury
• Space Marine Vehicles (List)

Sources

• 1: Primaris Space Marines: FAQ
• 2: Dark Imperium (Novel), Chapter Twenty-One
• 3: Games Workshop
• 4: Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 83
• 5: Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 53
• 6: Warhammer Community: LVO 2023 – Strike Force Agastus Makes Planetfall With New Desolation Marines and Dreadnought (posted 26/01/2023) (last accessed 26 January 2023)
• 7: Warhammer Community: Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan – What’s In The Box? (posted 29/04/2023) (last accessed 29 April 2023)
• 8: Golden Demon 2025 Competition at Spiel see Redemptor Dreadnought/Sources^{Golden Demon}
• 9: Games Workshop Warhammer World Official Facebook Page (posted 05/03/2020) (last accessed 4 December 2025, see Da Blakk Skull Raiderz/Sources in case of deadlink) ^{Golden Demon}

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