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[[Image:DDColor.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Deff Dread]]
'''Deff Dreads''' (Death Dreadnoughts) are large [[Ork]]ish walkers.
==Overview==
Belching smoke as they charge across the battlefield, Deff Dreads are deadly Ork walkers. In a similar way to [[Space Marine Dreadnought]]s, a Deff Dread's pilot must be permanently wired into the machine, Deff Dreads require the skills of both a [[Mekboy]] and a [[Painboy]] to construct. Aside from basic design elements, Deff Dreads are decorated, armed, and configured in countless ways, each one reflecting the tastes and vision of the Mek who designed it. As for the pilot of a Deff Dread, as is the case with [[Killa Kan]]s, the Ork volunteers are permanently hard-wired directly into the walker itself. Installing a pilot into a Deff Dread involves surgically implanting numerous tubes, nerve probes, cranial jacks, and other, more esoteric bits of mechanical devices plugged directly into his brain and spinal column.{{Fn|2}}
In battle, Deff Dreads act as support units and mobile weapon platforms, working in compliment with ork mobs or backing up a [[Warboss]] and [[Nobz]]. Even a single Deff Dread brings enough firepower and ferocity to an engagement to tip the scales of even the most fearsome battle in the Orks’ favor. Extremely expensive, Deff Dreads are used sparingly by those Warbosses who can afford them. This irritates none more than the pilots locked within, whose only release from the tedium of being welded inside these machines comes in slaughtering their foes on the battlefield.{{Fn|2}}
==Big Mek Dread==
'''Big Mek Dreads''' are controlled by [[Big Mek]]s and lead [[Killa Kans]] and Deff Dreads into battle. Unlike other Ork walkers, though, Big Meks are not permanently installed within their Dreads and can freely move out of their walkers' top hatches. Big Mek Dreads, however, are exclusively used by the [[Bad Moons]], as only their [[Ork Clan]] have enough [[teef]] to buy such an impressive Dread. This includes Big Mek Dreads' Kustom-built [[Shokk Attack Gun]]s.{{Fn|3}}
==Images==
DeffDread2nd.jpg|Ork Dreadnought (2nd Ed.)
Orkdreadnought1.jpg|Ork Dreadnought (1st Ed.)
Big Mek Dread.jpg|[[Bad Moons]] Big Mek Dread{{Fn|3}}
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Orks (4th Edition)]], pg. 52
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Only War: Enemies of the Imperium]] pg.56
*{{Endn|3}}: [[White Dwarf 400 (UK)]], pgs. 106-107 - ''Kit Bash'' - Created by [[Mark Jones]]
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