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| - The Dreadnought chassis is such a versatile weapons platform and overall potent war machine that even its variants are known to have seprate patterns depending on their Chapter of origin and their battlefield function. The following are known variants of the Dreadnought that can make use of the Hellfire Pattern:
* Hellfire Aegis Dreadnought - The Aegis Dreadnought is a unique, specialised variant of the standard Mars Pattern Mark IV and Mark V Dreadnought combat walker that is used exclusively by the Space Marines of the Grey Knights Chapter, the secret Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. The Aegis Pattern Dreadnought is equipped with the same special Warp-resistant devices and blessed Aegis Armour that is utilised by the Grey Knights Space Marines themselves. These arcane technologies help protect the walker from the Warp-spawned powers of daemons, psykers, and other Heretics. The Hellfire Dreadnought, being nothing more than a particular weapons loadout for a Dreadnought, is also applied to the Aegis Dreadnought when it replaces its Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon with a Missile Launcher. The Hellfire Aegis Dreadnought is capable of using all of the same long-range arm-mounted weapons as the standard Dreadnought but can also be equipped with the powerful Psycannon.
* Deathwatch Hellfire Dreadnought - The Deathwatch, the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos, also make use of the Hellfire Pattern Dreadnought.
* Chaos Hellfire Dreadnought - The Chaos Space Marines also make use of the Hellfire Pattern of the Dreadnought, yet like all things touched by the Ruinous Powers they are twisted and heavily corrupted by exposure to the Warp. The only visible differences in armament from Loyalist Hellfire Dreadnoughts are that Chaos Hellfire Dreadnoughts can be equipped with weapons such as Sonic Blasters and Havoc Missile Launchers which are used only by the followers of the Chaos Gods.
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