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From memory power armour marines had 1d6-2 in CC

 Pacific wrote:
Thanks mate!

Really interesting point someone made above (and I hadn't considered) was the rules for Power Armour in Space Hulk, when compared to Terminator Armour. If it's very unlikely a marine won't get snipped if they get melee'd when wearing Terminator, in Power Armour they stand almost no chance!

So it really just goes to reinforce how utterly deadly Genestealers are.

But that should do nothing to dispel the mental image of a bunch of guys that kind of look like gene-hanced John Cenas, dressed in their tidy whiteys, sprinting down the halls of the Space Hulk being chased by Genestealers

Ranting about 40k rules for a moment...

OK that's interesting, that's significantly lower probability than a stealer vs. termintor in Space Hulk.
Think the Stealers back then were tougher and didn't need toxin sacks and stuff

I'm not sure what the Stealers rules were back in Rogue Trader and at the time of Space Hulk 1st ed (am pretty sure they were in there, albeit looked quite a lot different). I know in 2nd edition they were absolutely nails (in amongst an army that was all nails!) Off top of my head, WS6, 3 attacks, can't remember if they were S4 or S5, but the way the melee system worked in that edition I remember them charging into squads of marines (or anything actually) and you may as well just remove the squad. A particularly dirty trick was using an allied adeptus psyker and using 'Gate' to just run them straight through and directly into close combat.

Ah yes gate, +18" of movement in addition to your flat 12" charge. Hybrids could get it (Nid or standard human power access).

Stealers were 28 points each, 6-12 strong, caused fear, immune to all psychology, 5+ save, WS 7, S6, T4, W1, I7, attacks 4, Ld 10. I ran them in squads of 7 so they only gave away 2VPs.

S6 wow! That really did match the fluff of their claws being able to slice through ceramite as though it were tissue paper!