The Terminators found in the Saturnine box are loaded with parts to fine-tune your squads and customise your Praetor to best suit the needs of your Legion.
The basics
Each Saturnine Terminator mounts two main weapons, one on each arm. The default loadout, according to the forthcoming Liber Astartes and Liber Hereticus* includes one plasma bombard and one disruption fist.
You can trade the plasma bombard with a twin heavy disintegrator if you prefer, while swap the disruption fist can become a second plasma bombard or twin heavy disintegrator. You can even add a particle shredder to the fist.
To take advantage of the different loadouts this allows, you have a variety of options. Between the six models in the Saturnine boxed set, you get six plasma bombards, six twin heavy disintegrators, and six disruption fists, each with optional particle shredders.
Squads of Saturnine Terminators can be anything from three to six models in size, but working on the assumption you are running two squads of three, there are three preferred loadouts.
Plasma supremacy: Three Saturnine Terminators with two plasma bombards each. This variation lets you stand back and obliterate your foe. These have Barrage so can fire indirectly – meaning you can wallop the foe without exposing them to danger
Heavy disintegration: Three Saturnine Terminators with two twin heavy disintegrators. Each model in this unit can put out a withering hail of high-Strength shots with amazing AP. They do need to expose themselves to enemy fire and/or assault – but tanks and dreadnoughts beware
Multi-role: This option is tactically flexible. Consider two with disintegrators, and one with a plasma bombard, plus a disruption fist with particle shredders for everyone. Woe betide anyone who ends up in assault range…
The kit also contains 12 heads – three each of four different designs. This means you can make sure each squad of three has the same head type, or all three different ones per unit.
The heads with bionic eyes look great for anyone planning on raining death from afar, while the ones with the spikes and front grille give strong traitor vibes.
It’s worth adding there’s a pleasing amount of poseability on all the weapon arms, with the way the arms attach to the shoulders and guns respectively, while each disruption fist has an open and closed hand option. All this means that no two Saturnine Terminators in your force should look quite the same!
What about the Praetor?
We’ve left the best to last. There are plenty of ways to customise the Saturnine Praetor too. The kit has two poses – one stood on a rock, and the other marching forward with purpose.
On top of that, you get two tabards, two lanyards, a choice of Saturnine concussion hammer (with two heads) or Saturnine war axe, and four unique heads to choose from. There’s also an optional cloak.
Come back here tomorrow to find out how they play!
* The quickstart rules found in Saturnine describe all the ranged weapons in the kit as Saturnine Cannons. Once you’ve got a few practice games in, you’ll definitely want to use the profiles found in the Libers.
