If both are taken seriously and both have their specialist areas and reign supreme in the areas that they are supposed to then making a cross over from one to the other will be very very dangerous. Ranged weapons should be the bane of close combat fighters and likewise a ranged fighter being dragged into close combat should end up dead meat in short order.
If I was one of the orkboyz I wouldnt want to go all melee with a terminator. I would definitely run away and bomb it/shoot at it until that mechanised nightmare was good and dead.
So what you're suggesting is the melee guys fighting against the melee and ranged against the ranged only? That would be boring and artificial - not in accordance with the WH40k spirit, besides , what if there's a imbalance in classes and we'll have more cc ones?
This isnt a TT game guys you really need to stop thinking about it that way. 9 ork boyz who are good at what they do will bait and switch a lone terminator to death. Chase one guy and get attacked from behind. In this scenario 99% of the time the termy will probably be dead.
I don't know it all depends on what the reward vs risk was, plus what I was armed with, even the weakest unit can use a weapon that can punch a hole in a terminator, it's about getting to use it.
And a lonely terminator who is good wont allow himself to be baited by a whopping 9 Orks, you are arguing semantics and also speculating who will have more skill in the situation.
As a ranged unit this is what I do when I fire into cqc. First I pick off strays or any targets of opportunity. Second I try and kill any enemy that won there fight. Im also looking to engage any new targets as they come into the fight. Truth be told I might be trading pistol and knife shots with a guy only to be mowed down a second after I beat him.
The terminator might be a shooter god and could solo whole platoons by himself. A lot of this will fall into the individual players skill level.
