These clandestine warriors can disappear at a moment’s notice, employing psychocrystalline camouflage, distorting warp-emitters or silenced servos coupled with obscuration skills honed over millennia. Many of them are Aspiring Champions although often the only way to acquire terminator armor is to kill the previous owner. In addition, during most battles their bulk became a disadvantage against the lighter power-armoured warriors who easily outmanoeuvered them. If that unit is a VEHICLE unit, it can make attacks with Blast weapons against units within Engagement Range; however, if it does so, each time it makes an attack with a Blast weapon this phase, on an unmodified hit roll of 1 that unit suffers 1 mortal wound after all of its attacks have been resolved.

This deadly combination of devastating anti-personnel firepower and clout in close quarters fighting makes a Chaos Terminator a deadly and highly-feared opponent. These heavily armoured suits of power armour had become widely available by the time the Traitor Warmaster Horus struck at Isstvan III.Until the start of your next turn, enemy units within Engagement Range of that unit cannot Fall Back unless they have the VEHICLE, TITANIC or AIRCRAFT keyword. Example: An attack made with an [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] weapon will score a Critical Wound against – and so successfully wound – a VEHICLE unit on an unmodified Wound roll of 4+, while an attack made with an [ANTI-PSYKER 2+] weapon will score a Critical Wound against – and so successfully wound – a PSYKER unit on an unmodified Wound roll of 2+. Some rules allow you to re-roll a dice roll, which means you get to roll some or all of the dice again.

You can easily work your way down to needing a 2, 3 or 4+ to wound anything in the game and you can re-roll any failed wounds with your lightning claws! If your unit is a CHAOS UNDIVIDED unit, you can instead re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll for that attack. For each roll of 1, that test is failed and one model in that unit equipped with a Hazardous weapon is destroyed (selected by the controlling player), unless that model is a CHARACTER, MONSTER or VEHICLE, in which case it suffers 3 mortal wounds instead.TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.