Re: Chain Fist for Space Crusade Proll.

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Jun 02, 2014; 8:41am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Chain-Fist-Rules-for-Space-Crusade-tp7580860p7580876.html

Tony1978 wrote

during combat a Terminator can use effectively the power fist (1R+1w), not the chain fist, BUT against Dreadnoughts or Bulkhead doors he's able to fully concentrate the chain weapon, rolling 2R+1w.
No diagonal attack or other special rules for me.

That's pretty much exactly the rules my group use for chain fists once we'd finished play-testing our Terminator Equipment cards. In our cases it's a card that lets you swap out the power fist on one of your terminators for a chain-fist although I do like the idea of it being an upgrade for all your basic terminators if you're using Blood Angels

I think it's also worth noting here that until quite recently a chain-fist was not a power-fist with a chainsaw-blade nailed to it, but an entirely different chainsaw attachment that fitted over the terminator's arm in place of the power-fist (check out 1st and 2nd edition Space Hulk and 40k from the same period) To be more authentic with the original Space Crusade terminator rules in WD134 we based our rules on that and used the artwork from the same period (not least because the artwork in matches that in WD134) but we came out with the same rules in the end, although we justified them slightly differently


 ^ the original chain-fist from the samw set of artwork used in WD134


 ^ From the Deathwing Rules & Missions book page 10


 ^ Deathwing Terminators; one with a Chain-Fist, the other with a Power-Fist (as seen in Space Hulk 2nd edition)