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Here's a question:

A D weapon with Instant Death hits a GMC and rolls a 2-5 on the D chart. What happens?

1) It does 1d3 wounds from the D chart and a further 1d3 for Instant Death, as if it had done a single instant death wound.

2) It does 1d3 wounds from the D chart and then rolls a further 1d3 wounds per wound inflicted due to the chart? That is to say, if I roll a 3 on the d3 from the D chart, is that 3 Instant Death wounds?

I believe the D chart says it does d3 instead of 1 wounds, meaning that it is in fact d3 Instant Death wounds (instead of one Instant Death wound). But I have no idea.

I hope the question is clear.

I agree with #3; all wounds inflicted have all special rules for those wounds applied, so 3 wounds rolled with the ID rule causes d3 additional wounds per against GCs.

A roll of 6 would cause d6+6 d3 additional wounds.

Luckily there are very few(if any) inherent ID D-weapons(or gcs with T5 or less); so it is not likely to come up too often.

The Ordinatus Ulator is Str D against GMCs and has the Instant Death special rule as well as auto-hitting and ignoring cover.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
The Ordinatus Ulator is Str D against GMCs and has the Instant Death special rule as well as auto-hitting and ignoring cover.

That thing is all kinds of ridiculous enough already though to be fair.

To answer your actual question though, yes I believe that each "unsaved wound" from that as a result of the D-Table would inflict D3 wounds instead of the one. As such, the 2-5 results would be (D3)D3 wounds, and the 6 being (D6+6)D3 wounds.

Mildly ludicrous