if you watch the lasted video
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVeZ8n4CAQ

at 2:14 that looks alot like terminator armor i could be wrong but i hope im not

I'm going to go with... Assault Terminator. At best. I realize people would want the generic Terminator, Probably with something like an Auto-cannon + Powerfist. The only way i could see that utilized is if the Accuracy on the Auto-cannon was purposely made to be terrible, with a suppressive ( < apparently that's incorrect spelling ) effect. High armor + large ranged damage hardly seems fair ( As unfair as 40k is, when pitting units of different values against one another ), however the game will be a bit more balanced than that. If they are implemented, they will have the drawback of moving slower and / or only being able to engage in melee. Could be a great unit for holding strategic areas if they are as tanky as the tabletop.

Locked skill trees with branches meaning you choose a career path and stick to it, so all of the above but the choice is permanent, once a terminator always a terminator, if you want to go back to assault load up a 2nd character.

Doubt that's going to happen. Weapons and armor are tools for killing and you need different tools for different

situations. Permanently being stuck a terminator is extremely inflexible from a tactics standpoint and the devs have already said you can switch classes at certain spawns.

I think terminators should only be unlocked by those who have a certain skill level or like top 1000 in the world/top 100 in the server. As for hero classes too. Or part of chapters also.

It's a team game, so I would assume when fielding an army you would have bits of every class.

So long as it doesn't turn into a tradition FPS where you can cycle through a collection of 20 weapons and change your weapon every shot.

EXACTLY, what people don't seem to understand is that Terminator armour was designed for clearing hulks and close combat/confined spaces. Very few "average" Astartes wear it on the battlefield because it makes them a walking target. The exceptions obviously being people such as Captains or similar such people who have to worry less about getting lascannoned because they are surrounded by friendly troops and/or havve an Iron Halo. So yeah this post is correct according to most official fluff.

To many pages to read, so it might have already have been said... but I think it needs to be some type of earned over time unlock system. Like you eventually earn the right to wear Term armor. And maybe you can always then spawn with it... then again, ofc that would eventually become OP. But it doesn't make sense either being able to Spawn as a Dread one min then coming back to life as a normal Marine the next. Your in the armor because it's your Perma lifesuit so you should be locked in it. AGAIN, it would be OP to be able to always spawn as one once you've unlocked that ability (if that was the mechanic). OR unlocking special armor like Artificer or Aegis.

What I'm basically saying is... the mechanic that would make the most sense LORE WISE, would completely break the game. I have no clue how they're going to balance things.

i like to see the terminator play as the tank class, equipped with a storm shield and thunder hammer, while the assault class be the damage per second, equipped with chain sword and jump pack. and that leaves chaplins as buff class, and librarians and devastators as nuker and crowd control, or what ever. we need an apathicary

And what about the standard marines? The ones armed with just boltguns or bolt pistols and chainswords?

Assault marines are jump packs or bikes, the compose of about 20% of your army, Terminators are more than just tanks they are champions, they compose of about 5% of your army, heavy weapons another 10%.

The rest of your army, excluding vehicles is 65% marines in power armour with boltguns/bolt pistol and chain swords.

Librarians are 2 or so per battle force, Chaplins/Apothecaries 1 -5 per battle force. Don't go getting your hopes up that everyone with be a champion carrying special equipment and touting special abilities, that will be game breaking.