Space Marine Terminator

It also provides a full loadout for an entire lightning claw squad or thunder hammer storm shield squad.

Space marine terminator. They combine centuries of experience with the best armour and weapons that can be found in the imperium. The crux terminatus or the terminator honour as it is also known is amongst the most famous of all the honours to be granted to the adeptus astartes as prescribed by the codex astartes. It is awarded only to those space marines who have proven their battlefield skills as respected and accomplished veterans of their chapter.

Terminators are chosen in squads of between 5 and 10 models. Chaos terminators are excellent all round fighters. Terminators are firstborn space marine veterans wearing the powerful tactical dreadnought armour more commonly referred to as terminator armour.

Terminators are space marine or adeptus custodes veterans who have earned the right to wear terminator armor through exemplary service. It contains enough parts for the full terminator supplemental groin armor and personal heradlry and back pieces for the terminator sergeant. This kit comes with what you need to make five 5 space marine assault terminators.

Not only does their terminator armour lend them superior survivability to other chaos space marine units but their towering size and grisly trophy racks really sets them apart on the battlefield. Terminator armour or tactical dreadnought armour is the toughest and most powerful form of personal armour humanity has ever developed used in terminator units. Terminators are the most feared of all space marine warriors.

Space marine terminators were originally only used in space hulk type scenarios and not the open battlefield but rules were added in white dwarf magazine and subsequent releases of warhammer 40 000 and epic for their deployment in conventional battles. Terminator armor or tactical dreadnought armor is a holy relic of a space marine chapter often dating back to the years of the horus heresy and so they are revered as holy relics and a physical manifestation of the chapter s undying fighting spirit. In many chapters the chapter master himself grants a veteran battle.

In most codex chapters they are members of the elite 1st company of a space marine chapter.