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No, saved hits had nothing to do with it - it was a fixed range weapon (0-20"/20-70" +1/+1 to hit S8 d10 wounds -6 armor penetration) and if hit by enemy fire required the roll of 2d6. On an 11-12 you rolled on the Catastrophic Launch Chart. When rolling the scatter dice, if you rolled a misfire on the scatter range die and a hit on the direction die you also rolled on the CL chart. The blast radius was 1/2" per missle in a fired salvo, up to 6" for the full load of 12 missiles launched. I found my 2E wargear book!

HBMC, you're right about it being 1:6 now that I remember. With sustained fire, each jam you rolled took a turn to remove; an assault cannon rolled 3d sustained and if you rolled all jams, you went boom. Unless you were a space marine dreadnought.

Edited for correctness!

No no no. It's what caused the misfire.

I'm sure taking hits did it. Should have the book knocking around somewhere.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Bloodthirster was fun. M6 WS10 BS10 S10 T10 W10 I10 A10 Ld10.

Or something very close to that.

BYE

M6 WS10 BS10 S8 T7 W10 I8 A10 LD10
It had terminator armor that was not negated by psychic attacks and force weapons.
The axe of khorne caused d3 wounds instead of one.

Mad Doc, the 2E wargear book reads, "If a Terminator equipped with a Cyclone is hit by enemy fire there is a chance that his entire stock of missiles will be accidentally fired off in a single salvo. Roll 2d6: if the score is 11 or 12 the Cyclone sactivates immediately. Roll on the Catastrophic Launch Chart. Note that result 1 on the chart also takes place if a hit and misfire result are rolled for scatter with the Cyclone." I'd read that as the model being hit by fire, but not necessarily failing a wound test or armor save.

The "result 1" is listed thus: Explode. All missiles explode immediately! The Space Marine is torn apart in a spectacular pyrotechnic display. Assume that all missiles have exploded in a salvo and place the appropriate blast marker on the model. Other models are affected as normal if they are within the blast area.

Personally, I never let this occur and always launched the full volley of 12 on round one. A bit wasteful, but it almost always took out a good chunk of my opponent's orks. After that the Termie was just a regular Storm Bolter in his team, which was still very effective.