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Building a BA army and have been told by numerous people that Terminators in BA are not that great, too expensive and worthless. Which leads to a tactical question.

What units in the BA army can reliably go toe-to-toe with DW Terminators and at minimum, break even in a fight. Ideally I'd like Terminators myself but this does not seem to be an option for me.

Deathwing is looking at base 240 for a 5man unit of TH/SS or 235 for Knights. They are both very slow and need a ride so now you're in for another 270. I would just blow up the transport and drown the unit in saves like every other army does. Both are going to do well in CC, but they are just so expensive. 5 T4 1W bodies even with a 2+ save rarely do what they need to and when they unit is literally a third of your army its a liability more than a threat.

Just throw a death company squad at them. With so many attacks you are bound to drown them in saves before they even get to attack. This works less well against knights.

Death Company on the charge will force enough saves to chop them to shreds, and so long as you can get the charge, it's game over terminators.

Plasma will also help, and an Honour Guard squad with Jump Packs and 4 plasma guns will have the range and speed to fly round and drop terminators left and right. It's a highly specialised unit, but very effective at what they do (anti-TEQ/MEQ/MC)

Trying to out-terminator the Deathwing won't work, so DC and shooting is your best bet.