Marcus_Iscariat
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Looks like we have embraced the Aquila
Marcus_Iscariat replied to Marcus_Iscariat's topic in + BLACK TEMPLARS +
Can you differentiate birds of prey at that level of abstraction/stylisation? Are they? I thought the Aquila was the aquila (imperium icon since the start), the winged skull was the Imperialis (late heresy loyalist icon onwards), and other winged symbols are just their own custom thing (like the BA icon) I have no idea about symbols that lexicanum has a single reference to from a Fantasy Flight Games sourcebook. Always used to be that it was Aquila armour and had wings on in but finding a chest piece with an actual eagle head on it was very rare. You only got 1 two headed eagle chest piece on the sprues before they redid them in 7th ed and the original ones had none. So the lack of them on the BT sprue didn't differentiate them much from other chapters. Can you differentiate birds of prey at that level of abstraction/stylisation? Are they? I thought the Aquila was the aquila (imperium icon since the start), the winged skull was the Imperialis (late heresy loyalist icon onwards), and other winged symbols are just their own custom thing (like the BA icon) I have no idea about symbols that lexicanum has a single reference to from a Fantasy Flight Games sourcebook. Always used to be that it was Aquila armour and had wings on in but finding a chest piece with an actual eagle head on it was very rare. You only got 1 two headed eagle chest piece on the sprues before they redid them in 7th ed and the original ones had none. So the lack of them on the BT sprue didn't differentiate them much from other chapters.I had always inferred from the fluff and the fact that all Black Templar upgrades use the Imperialis or the Templar Cross instead of the Aquila that the convention was correct. The Mark of Armour is classified as the Mk. VII Aquila Armour but pretty sure the Images always avoided the double headed eagle of the The Aquila on Black Templars. -
As my title says it seems we have adopted the Aquila as our new EC has Aquila Rosary in his hand and the New Sword Brethren on the codex cover has it on his tilt shield.