Editing Power Armour (section)

===Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour===

[[File:CataphractiiTerminator.png|200px|thumb|right|"My Pauldrons Can Support Hive Cities!"]]

The oldest design bar a few prototypes and the first pattern to enter mass production, developed during the [[Great Crusade]] and based on fusion-reactor maintenance suits. The Cataphractii pattern had Roman-esque, slab-like [[pauldrons]] (which apparently held shield generators), which enabled greater protection at the cost of preventing the wearer from moving with any sort of speed. It was the Mechanicus' intention to retrofit [[awesome|all 18 Legions down to the last Marine]] with Terminator armor at first, but it proved to be unfeasible as crafting that many suits would have required far too many resources. In the end they were adopted for use in [[Zone Mortalis|those situations where even Breacher squads struggled yet heavy ordnance was too difficult to deploy]], typically boarding actions and operations in heavily built-up urban areas.

After the Horus Heresy, the Cataphractii pattern fell out of general use. This may have been because the last of that armor was destroyed in the fighting and [[Adeptus Mechanicus|the pattern became another lost technology]] in the following years, or because production was ended in favor of later patterns and most of the surviving suits were either cannibalized or became relics that their chapters treated like equivalent of fine china: makes a nice display piece, but practically useless due to enforced disuse. These relics wouldn't see field use again until the day GW released the Angels of Death supplement (no doubt because they'd sell more copies of ''[[Betrayal at Calth]]'' if both 30K and 40K Marine players could use it).

In crunch terms, this translates to a higher invulnerable save than the Indomitus/Tartaros armor at the expense of being unable to run or overwatch. In 8th edition, Cataphractii have reduced movement compared to the other versions as well as halved advanced distances, but get a couple alternate weapon options and retain their boosted invulnerable saves.

9E combined Cataphractii and Tartaros Terminators into a joint datasheet called Relic Terminators. While this bumps Cataphractii terminators up to a more standard 5" movement, it also drops their invuln save back down to a standard Terminator invuln save. They have a much more specialized loadout than regular Terminators, so if you are looking for a more ranged variant of Terminators, you'll probably want to look elsewhere.

In the second edition of the Horus Heresy tabletop, Cataphractii Terminators remain lumbering slabs of "fuck you"; they still can't run or make Sweeping Advances, but they can now overwatch and they retained their 4++ invuln. Many of the Legions also have specialist Cataphractii squads, like the [[Justaerin]], [[Salamanders|Firedrakes]], [[Imperial Fists|Huscarls]], [[Iron Warriors|Tyrant Siege Terminators]], and [[Alpha Legion|Lernaeans]].

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image:CataphractiiPict.jpg|<center>Pict Captures</center>
image:CataphractiiUltramarines.jpg|<center>Ultramarines</center>
image:CataphractiiWordBearers.jpg|<center>Word Bearers</center>
image:CataphractiiFists.jpg|<center>Imperial Fists</center>
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