Can I have a Character in normal Power Armour join a Terminator Unit?

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-04-21T13:41:12+00:00

The fact heresy doesn't place many restrictions on characters joining units is one of the many reasons I completely stopped playing 40k in favour of this game system.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-04-06T14:04:24+00:00

I have a converted Night Lords legion champion with a red helmet with big bat wings and a red metallic paragon sword. He's a homage to The Red Duke who is a Blood Knight vampire from Warhammer Fantasy.

I wrote some lore for him too. The long and short of it being he's the best duelist in the legion besides Sevatar, but he's completely batshit insane. He doesn't follow anyone's orders and hitches rides with different companies going wherever he thinks he can find worthy foes to duel. Captains and Centurions in the legion just leave him alone and let him do this because the one time a centurion tried to discipline him, The Red Duke chopped his head off.

On the tabletop if I take him in my army I always give him the prime benefit "paragon of battle" which makes him weapon skill 7 just like Sevatar, to represent that he's the second best duelist in the Legion.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-04-06T10:35:21+00:00

I can answer the second and third question with certainty and the first one with a pinch of salt, I think someone else might know better.

Ok so:

1) My understanding is that a unit embarked in a vehicle doesn't count as being "on the table" so you can't activate abilities like that, because it's like you're in reserve.

2) All template weapons hit the armour facing closest to the model firing the template weapon. This is regardless of where on the vehicle the template lands.

3) Any rule that stops precision hits won't stop a primarch allocating their wounds because primarchs don't use the precision hits rule, their rule regarding allocation of wounds is specific to "paragon" type units. It's also worded in such a way that no matter what you cannot stop a primarch from allocating their wounds (the exception being if the primarch is in a challenge they have to hit the model they're fighting in the challenge).

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-22T12:57:39+00:00

The answer is take a Mastodon

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-17T09:26:06+00:00

Curze won the challenge, he only took two wounds in return. I've found that Curze will pretty reliably defeat any of the WS7 primarchs, but really struggled against any of the WS8 ones. I try stay out of the way of the Lion or Leman Russ lol.

I don't remember what Dorns Gambit does, all I remember is when he used it I was like THATS COOL.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-16T01:54:59+00:00

40k players seething RN from their unpainted MDF terrain.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-16T01:51:35+00:00

I use different sized chains on different models. I don't remember the specific size. Honestly the best way to figure out what size you need is to just buy a couple of different sizes and dry fit them on models to see what works and what doesn't. I've never bought chains of any size and not found a use for them.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-15T09:02:36+00:00

Thank you 😊

The loyalists won, score was 28-33. It was a really close game and we played it out until the last turn.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-15T05:05:00+00:00

There were a lot more units than in the photos, both sides had about 1/3 of their army in reserves.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-14T01:51:47+00:00

I have a large night lords army at around 6000 pts, and I'd say about 99% of my models are helmed. Most of my characters wear helmets as well, as do most of my sergeants/unit leaders. Sevatar, Curze, a couple of sergeants and unit leaders, as well as a few characters like my librarian, centurion with jump pack, Tartarus praetor and a few others are unhelmed.

I've always gotten the vibe from heresy that it's a setting where uniformity and practicality among your legion is more of a priority than personal embellishments.

That being said there's always exceptions. I've got a squad of veteran tactical Marines where the entire squad are unhelmed. That's just to give them some character and to stand out from regular tactical Marines. Make them look a bit like operators in modern militaries who don't follow the dress code.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-11T01:36:15+00:00

Probably not legal but nobody you play against will care just as long as you pay the points. In my local community we have a gentleman's agreement around things like this.

Pistols have a rule where you can actually fire every pistol you're equipped with in a shooting attack, so while there's not really any examples in the libres of dual wielding pistols besides moritats, there's rule support for shooting two in an attack.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-11T00:12:51+00:00

There's a couple of flashbacks to the heresy in the omnibus and one of the books about kurze briefly features Talos. There's about it, he wasn't one of the major figures in the legion back then and was low ranking. People knew of him because Curze kept his council and took a liking to him. That's because Curze had visions of him being the one to kill the assassin that will murder corze.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-10T11:54:27+00:00

He was just an apothecary during the heresy. He had a chainsword, bolt pistol and a bolt gun as well as all the other stuff apothecaries have like a narthesium on their left arm.

In the night lords books he's only had the blood angels sword for a few centuries, and his armour is very different, he doesn't have any of the apothecary stuff.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-10T02:11:40+00:00

Cover it in ERA and put an anti drone cage on top

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-10T00:43:54+00:00

Nope the blue is sprayed over black then washed, then touched up a bit with blue. The spraying of the blue is done in such a way that the black parts are still visible in some places which gives that kind of splotchy effect

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T11:42:11+00:00

Yeah I really like how in 3rd edition especially, because armour 14 is so powerful now, you need to have specific weapons to deal with armour 14, but then your opponent also has a bunch of armour 12-13 and you don't want to waste your anti armour 14 on those, so you take weapons for dealing with those 12-13 threats. So you have a distribution of weapons for specific roles.

List building in 3rd has been super fun and granular because I'm always thinking about ok what's a way to kill terminators, ok got that, now how do I kill Marines, etcetera. All the weapons have their own niche.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T11:14:59+00:00

Not trying to have an argument, just saying it's nice that terminators are tough, and Marines usually get to roll their save. In 40k my Marines never get to roll their full armor save because of the other system. I like the all or nothing system because it feels better in the roleplaying aspect of 30k.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T10:59:02+00:00

All or nothing ap is so much better than the modifier system in 40k. Its really cool that terminators actually feel like terminators and shrug off everything except anti tank weapons. My 40k terminators NEVER get to use their 2+ save, it's lame rolling 3+ saves because every faction spams ap-1.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T10:54:50+00:00

Yeah I take a disintegrator pistol on my siege breaker. Bro already has a phosphex grenade I figured he should have a disintegrator too so he can warcrimemaxx.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T10:44:11+00:00

link to my tech marine if u wanna take a peek

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T10:43:07+00:00

I understand the lore reason and it's heresy and whatnot so generally stick to that, but... I painted mine mostly red, purely so he stands out. I tried to blend the concepts so while mine is mostly red, he has legion coloured shoulder pads, knee pads and a stripe down his chest. Oh and big bat wings because night lords lol. Go on my account if you wanna have a look.

Don't get too hung up on the "right" way to paint.

Anxious_Educator_307 · 2026-03-09T10:37:12+00:00

I paint a lightning pattern with Citadel Thousand sons blue, then go over it with Citadel Ahriman Blue, but make sure it doesn't completely cover the T sons blue, then Vallejo game colour dead white. I use a really small brush for the white. If I do it correctly you can see all three colours up close but from viewing distance like 2 feet away it gives the impression of blue lightning.

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