Brother Coa's video: Warhammer 40000 - Terminators

Terminators are Space Marine Veterans wearing the powerful Tactical Dreadnought Armour, more commonly refered to as Terminator armour. In most Codex chapters they are members of the elite 1st Company of a Space Marine Chapter. Within a Space Marine Chapter, only the members of the 1st Company have full access to the rare and extremely resilient Terminator armour. Each suit is treated as an important relic and seen as a physical representation of the Chapter's fighting spirit. The most revered part of each armour is the Crux Terminatus, a cross-shaped badge placed on the left shoulder plate. According to legend, the Crux Terminatus worn by Terminator captains contains a fragment of the armour the Emperor wore at the height of the Horus Heresy. To a Terminator, the loss of his Crux is unthinkable. All suits have built in teleportation devices which allow them to deploy anywhere via deep strike, although more often they are deployed using Land Raiders. Squads consist of a Terminator sergeant and between 4 and 9 Terminators. The Dark Angels 1st company is known as the Deathwing and makes singular use of Terminator Squads (note that in the Deathwing there are no differences between Tactical and Assault Terminator squads - because every Terminator Squad is armed in that combination of heavy, hand to hand and assault weapons that fits this squad role on the battlefield the best), as well as Land Raiders. The position also confers greater knowledge of the chapter's history. There are no Veteran Squads in the Deathwing. The Space Wolves name for Veteran Squads are the Wolf Guard but unlike other chapters, they only wear Terminator Armour when the situation calls for it rather than supporting a number of permanent Terminator Squads. The Salamanders chapter uses an altered version of the Codex Astartes with 12 squads in each company rather than the standard 10, including up to 120 Veterans or Terminators. Terminators of the Daemon-hunting Grey Knights use Storm Bolters and Nemesis Force Weapons. Some are equipped with Incinerators, Psycannons or Psilencers. Unlike conventional Terminators, they make use of psychic powers. Ultramarines First Company during the First Tyrannic War and the following Second Tyrannic War. In the first war, the entire First Company was wiped out defending Macragge and during the second a company of over twenty Terminators stormed the centre of the Tyranid invasion on Ichar IV, eventually killing all of the Tyranids on the planet. Music used - Thomas Bergersen - Age Of Gods - (Track 17/19) [Illusions]