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[[Image:HelbruteArt.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Helbrute]]

'''Helbrutes''' are a kind of [[Chaos Dreadnought]].

Most Helbrutes are completely psychotic, even before the Warp melds the metal of their prison with the flesh inside. A creeping insanity, mingled with desperation and fury, eats away at them over the long millennia. Between battles, the sarcophagus containing the pilot is disconnected and dragged clear of its armoured shell to lie inert and seething in the darkness. The Helbrute is chained like a beast when it is not actually fighting, for fear that some residue of the pilot's soul may send it into a berserk rampage. As the ships of a Chaos Space Marine fleet approach their prey, the Helbrute's heavy weapons are prepared and loaded, its power scourges and hammer-like fists are daubed in fresh blood, and its sarcophagus is installed. The madness of the Chaos Space Marine within burns ever fiercer as he rises from his dormancy. Once the fleet's warriors have landed, the Helbrute is unleashed, a lunatic beast of flesh and metal intent upon venting its rage on everything in its path.{{Fn|3a}}

Helbrutes wield an array of infernal (and mundane) weaponry. It is typically equipped with a close combat arm - a [[Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon#Power Fist|Power Fist]] with a [[Combi-Bolter]] or [[Heavy Flamer]] built into it, a [[Power Scourge]], or a [[Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon#Helbrute Hammer|Helbrute Hammer]] - and a [[Multi-melta]], but much variation exists. Many are seen sporting twin-linked [[Heavy Bolter]]s, [[Plasma Cannon]]s, twin-linked [[Lascannon]]s, and [[Missile Launcher]]s.{{Fn|3b}}

**{{Endn|3b}}: pg. 97

*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Thousand Sons (8th Edition)]], pg. 48 — ''Helbrutes''

*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Art and Making of Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2]]
, pg. 36