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So, I've been going back over my DE army after a hiatus playing Chaos. I'm looking at using some wargear that I've never tried much and not at all in 5e. The piece in question is the terrorfex and by extension the Horrofex. Both are a Blast weapon and so use that template. I've used the search, looked in the official FAQ and even the INAT so forgive me if this has come up in some forum other than YMDC.

Now the terrorfex says to roll 'to hit' as normal but to not roll for wounds or saves. Obviously in 5e there is no rule for rolling 'to hit' for a blast marker, instead you place the marker then roll 2D6 and a scatter die. The problem is pretty obvious, at least I hope it's obvious. Here's the question: How do you resolve using this piece of wargear?

A. Place the Blast template and roll 2D6 and a scatter die.
B. Place the Blast template...nothing else required.
C. Roll to see if you hit, like in a normal shooting attack, then place the Blast template.

How has everyone been playing this? Or has there been some definative discussion leading to a resolution?

Since both are Blast weapons and do not have special rules for their use. Just use the Blast rules.

I would read "roll to hit as normal" as meaning "roll to hit using the normal rules for blast weapons" meaning you would use a scatter roll

Thanks for the input your points certainly makes sense to me. Ahh, the joys of using an outdated codex...