40K Open Thread: Making Shooty Termys Viable?

So I’ve talked before about using large squads of standard Terminators in lists as a viable alternative to Close Assault Termys. Lets see what might be done to shore them up.

So right off the bat, lets agree that with many viable delivery systems and the ability to fight in double the amount of assault phases compared to shooting, the player community has been gravitating to the hammer boys en masse.  I can certainly say that at the big tourneys I’ve attended I rarely see standard termys at top tables at this time.

My question is twofold:
1-What is the most unattractive part of standard termys that makes them such a hard sell in 5th edition?

2-What would you do to make then a true viable choice that would make you really agonize over choosing between them and their assault brethren?

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.