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Hi,

I actualy use a captain terminator (space marines-salamanders) with a relic sword and a storm bolter and he disapoint me

I'm thinking about changing his equipement (i always play wysiwyg)
I thought about the hammer and the shield eternal but i have doubts

Wat's the best way to equip a terminator captain? (knowing that he's already not the best codex's HQ)

First, Welcome to Dakka.

What do you want him to do? If he’s there just to buff surrounding units, you might want to keep his points down and run him with a few low-cost items like a stormbolter and power sword.

Thunder Hammers can bring the hurt, and are good for cracking open anything. A solid choice.

I’ve only fielded the SE once, (I’m also a WYSWYG guy and just recently painted a bit for it) and was quite happy with the results. Halving the wounds you take is a big deal.

TH/SS looks iconic, very Salamander, and should do decent on the table. A bit pricy, but should be effective.

Thank you for the advice,

I was preaparing a cheap regular captain to do the buff
But i didn't know what to do with the termi-captain who's iconic but really expensive and slow
He usualy with a 6 terminators team and a jetpack-lieutenant in the teleportarium but that is not effective and also super expensive so i'm painting a jetpack chaplain to do the same job and, i think the captain will stay in the box for now

For what it's worth, I had an Imperial Fist hammer/shield eternal terminator captain played against me a few days ago. He was very difficult to remove until my Malignant Plaguecaster lucked out and pumped 6+1 mortal wounds into him.

Outside of mortal wounds there are few things that are actually good at killing someone carrying shield eternal, and the thunderhammer makes him really dangerous to most combat characters that could deal with him otherwise.

Good to know

Terminator armour unfortunately IMHO doesn't cut it as a jump pack captain with the same equipment is 7 points cheaper for 1 less wound and an additional 7inchs of movement.