Have you ever wanted a unit to work in your army but never could? Like a unit or character that you love in the lore, but because the game, aren't able to make it work. I have this feeling about World Eaters Terminators. I love terminators, no doubt about it. When my brother bought box of 2nd edition loyalist terminators, they brought fear into my then Dark Eldar force. That thick 2+ save was a menace, until i got some  Incubi. 

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When I started my World Eaters collection, I of course wanted Terminators too. They were suppose to be the elite of the elite. Body guards of the Chaos Lords. So i got these guys. If you notice there weapons are all over the place, you got a pair of combi-bolters, combi-flamers, combi-melta, a power fist, a chainfist and a reaper autocannon. A very jack of all trades with both anti-infantry and anti-tank weapons. While I did enjoy them, I would buy 3 more to make 8 (the holy number of Khorne), the mixed role weaponry made me don't want to use them. 

Then the meta would shift, into Terminator suicide unit (Terminicide units). Little 3 man anti-tank buster units that you deep strike in behind tanks, hopefully pop the target and then died from the counter attack. This seem like a joke to me. The uber elite terminators being used in such a expendable manner. I would then use Raptors in this Anti-tank role because that would make more sense the lore that a World Eater force might use Raptors in this way. So my Terminators got shelved and when terminators moved to 40mm base, i would then sell them.

Then something would happen, Forge World released the Red Butcher Terminators in like 2014. I wanted them, but of course it was Forge World and therefore, super expensive. So I went to eBay, and found someone who was selling the bodies but not the arms or the bases. During the my Raptor crazed, I had a large amount of Lightning Claws laying around. I got 10 of them and I gave them pair of Lighting Claws. Soon after power weapons got changed to accursed weapons and lightning claws build got nerfed. 

When the World Eater Codex was announce, everyone was hoping for Red Butchers. Then the Eightbound were released, everyone scratched there heads. The Eightbound and the Exalted Eightbound have taken the spot that the Terminators used to have, or at least what we wanted Red Butchers to have, as a heavy assault unit. Now Terminators are in this strange spot now rules wise. They are not the best unit in melee, and they do have some shooting, but its not great shooting.

These terminators are also showing there age, The new berzerkers are taller than these fellows and I just don't use them. So I'm thinking about selling them, with or without their arms. I haven't made up my mind. 

Thanks for reading my rantish ramble. More World Eaters are on the way