Editing Terminator (section)

===9th Edition===
Though they largely behave in the same way as 8th Edition, Terminators are now ''3'' wound models, making them significantly more resilient towards anti-MEQ/TEQ weaponry than before. Thus far, they also haven't really moved much in point cost compared to a lot of other Space Marine units. Having said that, they still face very steep competition from other Elite units and are still particularly vulnerable to high AP weaponry. Also, storm shields only provide a 4+ invulnerable save but +1 to their normal armor save(ignoring ap-1 weapons).

This has been shaken up as of early 2022 and the new 'Armour of Contempt' rule, which reduces the AP of ALL incoming attacks by 1 (to a minimum of 0), however not stacking with other forms of AP reduction or storm shield variants (storm shields now only confer the 4++). In order to demonstrate the sheer resilience of this, a unit of Primaris Hellblasters with anything other than the heavy variant of their Plasma Incinerators are now mathematically slightly more likely to kill ''themselves'' than Terminators when overcharging. Without overcharging, it averages 13.5 standard Plasma Incinerator shots to bring down a single Termie.

So long as you keep them in cover, enemies now need -3AP or higher to even ''start'' chewing into that mighty 2+ save, granting incredible durability against most small-arms and even giving a reasonable chance to shrug off dedicated anti-TEQ or even anti-vehicle weaponry.