The Dreadnought cruiser first appeared in the West End Games excellent Imperial Sourcebook. Many ships, vehicles, and weapons from the sourcebook went on to appear in the novels.
I love the design of the of the dreads. Looks really tough and practical. My introduction to the expanded universe was through Timothy Zahns Thrawn trilogy....so good!
I love the simple yet durable designs that came from this era of Star Wars. The Dreadnought and the Carrack Cruiser just look so different from a lot of other designs, bulky yet dangerous. The image of nearly 200 of these behemoths exciting hyperspace in a foul mood would be quite a sight.
This is my kind of ship. nothing fancy or reliant on speed, just strong shields, lots of weapons and tough armor to allow you to punch above your class. I agree, this is the perfect hero ship.
Love that modified Dreadnought! Great addition of the hangar bay- I really like where you located it- the placement gives launching or returning fighters cover from the sides. Nicely done.
I agree with you the Dreadnaught cruiser is one of my favorites from the series. Its a smaller sturdy ship which can take a punch or two. it has also always seemed more flexible with modifications than most other capital ships. If given my choice of modification I would replace the ion cannons with additional anti Starfighter weaponry and think of down sizing the hanger in place of missiles or torpedoes. I always have a habit of packing one of these into my fleet when playing some of the modes for empire at war. A pseudo flag ship in each fleet, even in the face of far larger more powerful options. I don't know what it was that originally drew me to the dreadnaught but it has always served me well and will always have a place in my fleet.
I've seen that video, but ResStar could show just how they might work. He could even include an attack on Thrawn by Free Ryloth using Chr'Daki fighters.
Your Dreadnaught model is absolutely gorgeous!! That's amazing detail! I read the Thrawn Trilogy in high school (2000-2003) and since then, this has always been one of my favorite ships; none of my fantasy fleets would be complete without it. Keep up the fantastic work! :-)
One thing they haven't managed to screw up with the new films is the starships, which has always been my favorite part of the films (Return has always been my #1 due to the fantastic battle at the end). I absolutely love all of these super geeky ship breakdowns. Can't beat it.
0:22 Incorrect, they first appeared in the Imperial Sourcebook of West End Games' Star Wars RPG, much like a lot of Imperial vehicles that appear in the Thrawn trilogy. The unified EU really started from Zahn's trilogy, but I like to call that RPG the proto-EU because the early writers used its sourcebooks a lot as a source.
great work on the old war horse. It is said that during the Old Republic, the only ship to fight a Dreadnaught to a stand still was a Victory SD. One thought though... VLS concussion missile launchers? maybe a 30 cell each dorsal and ventral?
I like to think that there's a parallel to the real world with this ship, that the Dreadnaught class marked a shift in ship-building in some way and many ships from the clone wars onward were decidedly marked as "Post Dreadnaught" designs.
The Dreadnaught was always one of my favorite ships, well designed and very versatile. I always wondered at its name however, as it is neither a heavy cruiser, nor a dreadnought. Perhaps a more modern version of the dreadnought, perhaps named the Battleship-Class, could be made. With modern tech, perhaps larger and slightly longer ratio wise, it could be made as a faster and more deadly vessel, even matching or surpassing imperial heavy cruisers, such as Imperial I's & II's.
Keep in mind that Dreadnought was originally the name of a British warship and the class of "Dreadnought" was a reference to the influence the original ship had on naval design worldwide.
The New Republic assault frigates and the Confederate Providence carrier/destroyer were both developments of the venerable dreadnaught. Which is what I like about them.
It was made during the Ruusan reformations where ships could not exceed a certain size, so for the era it was considered a dreadnaught in a cruiser role and sold to planetary defense forces.
In the SWvsST Mod for Star Trek Armada, they have a map with the Katana Fleet abandoned and available to capture. Dreadnaughts are beast vs ships from the lower to mid tech tiers and are pretty dangerous in numbers vs upper tech tier ships in the mod.
That is a beautifully done Dreadnaught! .... would be cool to see the turbo lasers firing in a staggered or serialized manner rather then linked burst fire, as in all barrels at one per turret one turret after another. Not sure if shields can be overloaded more by a single large hit by all turrets at once or the continuous drain of one turret after another. Love the ships, gonna have to see if you've done the carrak cruisers too, they are a perfect fit for escorting dreads and they have the same visual style.
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As it turns out, they kinda are! If you check the Rebels Finale, you see some ships that look suspiciously like the Dreadnaught in Thrawn’s fleet when the Ghost sneaks back onto Lothal.
Loved the Dreadnought since it first appeared in the Imperial Sourcebook for the West End Games RPG. Always wished it made an appearance in the prequel series.
they did put them in Rebels.. there is a few of them in the fleet blockading Lothal when the Ghost slips past the blockade in one of the final episodes
I love these ships far more than I like most starships in star wars and while I could be wrong I believe they were featured in the original tie fighter PC game
What a beautifully modeled ship!! Excellently done! I 1000% AGREE WITH YOU! I grew up reading about the Dreadnaught in Legends and have a strong affinity for this ship. My one wish is for it to become CANON!! :-)
Very nice work on the 3d modeling for this one! I like your idea of using this ship as the backdrop for a rpg group. Since these ships are old and considered obsolete it's not hard to imagine a few falling into the hands of a pirate Lord.
Nice work. I do like the dreadnaught. When i first saw BSG it made me think of the dreadnaught class heavy cruiser. Shame they never made an upto date version. Maybe this ship should have been in The Last Jedi.
Outstanding presentation, as always! You said that it had no standard hangar bay. I think that it had, in the thrawn trilogy the boarding party of the Katana lands in its hangar as far as I remember. Also, in the second book about Outbound Flight (don't know the name in english, but it is the one where Luke and Mara visit outbound flight's remnants), the hangar is very essential to the plot towards the end. We're those modified ones or are your stories no longer canon?
So, why would it have a radar type dish that would be in a position where as it swept around on a horizontal axis, part of the ship would block a large part of where it can scan? The dish should be on the "highest" part of the ship.
Can you please do a video on the roles and the special strategies on how the Rebels used Nebulon B Frigates as well as Blockade Runners? Or something like how would you use them in intense situations as being under attack by a Star Destroyer, or defending a fellow MC cruiser?
I wish there were more ships from the old cannon, from both books and games. I agree that Drednought (btw beautiful model and animation) is the most important but I would love to see other ships like Bulk Cruiser, Escort Carrier (my favourite TiE Box), Assault Frigate Mk I and II, Dauntless cruiser are just to name a few. And of course we would need some starfighters like Cloakshape, Z-95, T-Wing, Supa fighter, YT-2000 and very important VSD I and II. I think that ISD has dominated the main line of films and shows way too much and for each instance of higher value (Rogue One) it gets devalued 3 or 4 times (Rebels where those ships blow up as if they were nothing)
The imperial carrier is canon it's mentioned in the book "Tarkin",well not by name but the author described a boxy carrier with armor extending above the engines.
You know, with how they treated legends, every book can be swiftly outside cannon. But its nice to see that the TiE box is still in cannon. For now :). Thx.
What a great model, nice to get more details on your version. Love that forward hanger. Great to contrast with say fractals mod. Imp version that people like to use for images.
Resurrected Starships we all love fractal lol, but I think I mentioned before, I like your starwing more. Seems more svelte than the tie fighter pc game proportions he used on his. Nice to see diff renders of same ships. This pirate mod of the ole dread is great.
I also have a soft spot for the Dreadnaught and I do dearly wish the see them become canon again. I'm British, so I find something deeply satisfying about a heavy bruiser of a ship thats designed to go broadside for broadside with other capitol ships and add to that, we British coined the name Dreadnought, with the HMS Dreadnought.
There were 2 English ships named Dreadnaught before the first HMS Dreadnaught was launched in 1654. The English (not Brittish because the first ship named Dreadnaught predates the United Kingdom of Great Brittian and Northan Ireland by about 150 years) may well have coined the term Dreadnaught but not for the HMS Dreadnaught
great model! I hate "modified" ships in Star wars. The Millenium Falcon is a modified ship but apparently everyone has one. Same with Mon calamari ship designs. Each ship is supposed to look different and precieved as a work of art but all ships types i mentioned look the same
They're now canon, unfortunately it's canon name is an imperial support cruiser. But it's still the same model and it appeared in the episode before the finale of rebels.
Resurrected Starships so a full squadron of, say, interceptors or space superiority fighters, and another half squadron of bombers would probably be the most effective combination. A smaller shuttle would probably take the rest of the hangar space.
I was just wondering....do you mind if someone else uses your version of the Dreadnaught? I'm thinking of trying to write a Star Wars based Fanfiction that involves the Earth somehow being in the Unknown regions & I was thinking that this kind of ship would be pretty decent to start a small fleet for Earth....
Actually I’ve heard they are because they are briefly shown in one of the last star wars rebels episodes of the last season Rebels is canon by the way and I don’t know the exact episode
I see we have ANOTHER model of the Dreadnaught, with altered blister layout. I just use the Essential Guide to Vehicles image, and X-Wing Alliance upgrade. Also, noclipping on Jedi Academy reveals a nice internal layout (in the Byss level)
I STILL haven't played the game yet! Loved Outcast, but disk space is low. Would like a noclip video, but may just snap some photos if I get round to it. So there's a hangar where the lower sensor dish is, some anterooms, and a lift up to middle decks, and a gun deck up top.
Is the bridge of the ship up top? Like behind the satellite dish. I've mostly just seen these ships in Empire at War mods so the model in this video is the greatest amount of detail I've gotten to see thus far.
The bridge is... unusual. It appears to occupy most of the width in the bow, with some of it up against big side windows. I suspect it has a network of tactical chambers, navigation desks and maprooms, suitable for a flagship almost. See the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels artwork, Galactic Empire Databank website and others.
I always thought that the Bridge was right at the tip of the ship, from what I've seen of images of the Dreadnaught, but the Bridge being on the top is also an awesome look.
Pretty much every new ship has been either designed from scratch, or based on original trilogy concept art, so I wonder if copywrite issues are involved.
I don't know that they are not canon. If you watch the fleet flyby in Return of the Jedi, you see, in the gaps, several background ships that do look like dreadnoughts. It's probably just a matter of time before a canon book or series features one. After all, they did get the quasar carrier into Rebels.
I like a lot of the KA ships but they are also extremely blocky and straight edged - perhaps optimizing performance in the game with low poly models. I really like the gorn, tholian, and fed designs though, eg Akula among others.
Yes those are great designs. Seems that the fed designs were the strongest in KA, but the klingon and rom designs, although ok, are not as good as the FASA designs. Can't wait to do a couple more romulan FASA ships like Winged Defender :P
Is it just me or does the dreadnaught looks like the battlestar Pegasus without the outboard hangar bay pods? Still, simple nice clean functional design though.
In the real World Dreadnaught where larger and more powerful than Destroyers,In Fact Destroyers where light fast ship originally Designed to destroy tropedo Boats,They where actually called tropedo boat Destroyers this Eventually Got shortened to Destroyers
Yes. This is a rather OLD ship, often provided for local sector governments at times. Or the name just didn't catch on as a battleship term in many navies.
You do understand that the dreadnaught design was by dykstra and when he left Lucas film he used the original design for the dreadnaught for the battlestar galactica. Hence the lawsuit
Nicholos Caudillo really?? I was not aware it was a lawsuit. Seems frivolous to me. Yeah it could be a bsg ship but then many of bsg ships look a lot like star wars ships.
That's the front end of the medical frigate. Look at the galactica again but remove the flight pods. And voila the dreadnaught we never get to see ever in Star Wars films. I was very disappoint in the prequels for that. A golden opportunity to see dreadnaughts.
A dreadnaught is a type of a ship that is very thick armor and more stronger attack this wouldn't apply it wasn't even should called a cruiser because of its size more like escort
