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The tranquil star system named after the famed saint Lazarus started seeing increased activity of the brutish space ork raiders scouting planetary defences and falling upon the pilgrimage crafts of the faithful. The governing cardinal Thietmarus LXXII requested from Ultima segmentum command at Kar Duniash to send reinforcement to his world to protect the 17 billion loyal souls. The response came in the form of an astra militarum battlegroup 3 million strong compromised of the Dniepr armoured guard’s experts in mechanised warfare. The small forces of Orks that had made planefall was quickly dealt with in the deserts outside of the gleaming white hive cities and the men and women of Dniepr was hailed as heroes. Then for reasons unknown to the citizens, relic keepers, priests, deacons and even the cardinal himself disaster struck, as the Cicatrix Maledictum spread across the galaxy and a wall of darkness fell between the Cardinal hive world of Lazarus prime and the divine light of the Astronomicon. In the coming year fear and panic gave way for terror as long range scans of the star systems edges showed an org fleet approaching, not mere raiders willing to settle for loot and plunder. This time it was full blown Waaagh. The small system defence fleet made a brave last stand in high orbit trying to protect the worlds space station. As the people of the world turned their eyes to the night sky they could watch as the explosion of the Deodate class space station turning the night for a short moment into brightest day. As darkness retuned the fiery streaks of the space Ork landing crafts descended thru the atmosphere. The armies of Dniepr was still planetside and the Cardinal had reinforced the veterans with millions of conscripts. Barley trained but driven by an unshakable faith in the god emperor of making blessed be him on holy Terra. The white towers of the hives were reduced to rubble and the dust of the desert settle in the ruins. After 3 years of fighting a gridlock had been reached, the Orks had taken a defensive posture as their slaves scourge the ruins for material to build bigger war machines, the astra militarum units spent after horrible fighting limited itself to brief combat patrols to seek out survivors and find holes in the ork defences to be exploited when opportunity present itself. The Human spirit was still intact. As the nights feel mass was still held in the crushed cathedrals, defiled Basilicas and broken mausoleums. The hymns of the faithful could be heard in the cities crossing the no man’s land giving hope to the slaves captured by the Orks uniting the people of the shattered world as a prayer for deliverance. I am the light, the light in void; who looks to me will never be lost. I am the light, the light of heaven; who pray to me will never die. And as you pray, remember me, my body broken on the throne: my life was given to set you free, and I'm alive for evermore. - Ego sum lux; hymn CDLXXXII the book hope saint Cecilia the blind Captain-General Sergeius of the Dniepr armoured guards didn’t expect deliverance when the vox servitor announced that a messaged had been received from a unidentified ship at the edge of the system. When the voice honed from wars on a hundred different worlds came thru the vox link Sergeius felled to his knees and thanked the god emperor. Lazarus command, This is castellan Tancrède of the Black Templars we are the knights of Dorn, the vanguard of the Lazarus crusade! We will cleanse the invaders of this world with our righteous wrath and restore these holy places. Imperator in fidem est aeternum! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This thread marks my return to 40k, I left around the end of 4th edition due to disappointment in the rule system. After that I have played a whole bunch of other games including games set in the 40k universe as I have always loved the setting itself. What pulled me in to begin with was the fantastic 3rd ed start box front cover featuring the black Templars, the flames of my interest were fanned with the war for Armageddon and codex City Fight all the way back in 2001. What I have seen so far 8th editions have the makings of something great so I have set three goals to archive for this project to fulfil what I wanted as a boy but didn’t have the skills or means to archive: 1: Make a Black Templar crusade that invokes John Blanche black Templars. 2: Make a supporting Imperial guard army in the vein of Armageddon steel legion. 3: Create a ruined gothic city to fight the enemies of mankind in. My plan is begin with a mainly infantry force featuring the new primaris marines backed up with dreadnoughts, and scouts to fufill the roels of Neophytes. I look forward to sharing this journey with you all and hope you will enjoy it. My armor is comtempt, my faith is zeal, I'm a weapon fated to fight forever in the eternal crusade. - Brother Georgius The idea is to keep the colour scheme limited to mostly black and white with gold as the main accessory colour. I will have a theme of holy relics going thru the entire army where the dreadnoughts themselves are walking reliquaries. The green Maltese cross is the crusade badge for the Lazarus crusade and will be included on all models in the army, here it’s free-handed but I will replace it with a transfer decal at a later stage. Later during the coming week I will try to post another dreadnought and some Neophytes, after the release of 8th edition I will focus on converting the characters and get some test marines done.

Hi I’m Casual Heresy, and I’m a hobby butterfly. And that’s okay. Afternoon all. A combination of the forum upgrades and downtime from catching Nurgle’s blessing (covid) for the first time means I’m finally going to start the WiP log I’ve always meant to start. I love space marines of all types so always have multiple projects on the go. Currently, I’m focussing on Black Templar reinforcements for the August Throne of Skulls at Warhammer Workd with heresy era ultramarines in the background. But various other armies and one off projects will pop up over time. Currently I’m about to finish the first of two Redemptors for my Templars, and a Contemptor I finished yesterday is waiting on tufts. After that there is only Grimaldus and his boy band, a Primaris Techmarine and Castellan to go.

This is my first attempt at a thread, so I hope it goes well. I figured, after reading several threads for the various other Crusades, and seeing the outright AWSOME work being done, that this might be the Power Boot in the (4-point-of-contact) I need to actually get the various projects I have either unstarted or in various stages of completion up to par with what I had envisioned for them when I started. After seeing the constructive criticisms here from various members, I'm excited to get feedback that will aid me in getting better. I'll try to post some pics of my crusade so far after RL obligations have been met for the day. For anybody reading this NOW, sorry for the text. More to follow soon!

I was looking for ideas on which force I wanted to start next (New Year and all that) After hours of trawling through images of Space Marines I came across one of a Castellan, in Black Templars livery, they were just what I was looking for! I read some of the background and really liked the idea of the Crusade, I'd already bought some Death Korps of Krieg models so thought why not do both? So with that in mind I needed to find a suitable story to bring the 2 together, then I read about the Barbarossa Crusade, given that both Tempars and DKoK have Germanic influences I thought it would be a good fit. The original Barbarossa Crusade was too early in the time line for Primaris so the Second Barbarossa Crusade was born! To start with I'll be concentrating on DKoK and Primaris Black Templars but over time I'll probably dip in and out of other Imperial factions (gotta love the Imperium and it's wide range of interesting factions!) For the Templars I wanted to start at the top (I wanted a leader to start building the Crusade around) So here's Primaris Marshal De Molet Templar Marshal Templar Marshal Templar Marshal Templar Marshal Templar Marshal I used a lot of bitz to try and make him look the part, this is probably the scheme I'll be going for with all the Templars stuff. Now all I need is a symbol (Campaign badge) for the Crusade to tie everything in. I want something simple but effective so I can add it to the Guard elements too. Any ideas?

"lost in the warp for 11 years" EDIT: Obviously i have made this my Black Templars WIP/PLOG... so enjoy /EDIT I already made a post in new members, but I feel I need to report directly to the fortress monastery! Hello y'all. I have played black Templar since 1999. Shut it down in about 2004 with the dissolution of my immediate circle of gamers. Getting back into it now. So I've been lurking for a while on this board. Y'all have given me a lot of inspiration. I will be rebuilding my crusade. With the acquisition of 2 tactical boxes, 2. BT upgrade boxes and a stern guard box folded into my existing forces I intend to build 4 crusader squads. For lack of better terms 2 shooty and 2 choppy. Fully 9 initiate and one sword brethren The shooty squads will have bolters, a heavy bolter, a special weapon and the sb will have a matching combi weapon and power sword all in a rhino. The choppy squads will have 5 neophytes with, 9 initiates and a sb, all with bp/cs except imbedded power fist special weapon and sb with power sword and matched combibolter. Both in their compulsory LRC. Leaving room for an HQ in the LRC. I will have 6 sword brethren built all with power swords and combi weapons. 2 plasma, 2 melta and 2 flamer. Also 6 special weapon initiates, 2 each of plasma, melta, and flamer. Seeing a pattern? Plan is to move in matched combo and special to the appropriate squad depending on my enemy. Throw in 2 HQ, i have several Marshalls chaplains techmarine and emperor's champion. Should be a fun fluffy army. Sadly almost everyone I saw at the local 40k night were playing marines which will get old, and require I declare any "loyalist" opponents excommunicate traitoris before the match... Lol Almost forgot, I have a predator, some land speeders, enough initiates for a devastator squad with 4 missile launchers, and a dreadnaught all for support... Guess I need anti air cus that is a thing now...

Greetings! I'm a Black Templars fanatic and conversions enthusiast. I used to crawl around this board more than 5 years ago and even posted some of my stuff back then. I took a break from the hobby for a couple of years but reentered the game about 2 years ago. In the past time I put together a lot of stuff (exclusively for my two big loves in 40k: Black Templars and Inquisition) and don't want to hold it back from you. I see this as a compendium of my work and gonna update it whenever I have some new freaks to show off. Criticism and suggestions welcome as always. Old models: Black Templars Castellan mainly based on this wonderful and inspiring Artwork by John Blanche Black Templars Sword Brother also based on the Blanche Artwork Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Black Templars Dreadnought some random Servitor with Heavy Bolter Newer Stuff: Black Templars Assault Squad Inquisition Lexmechanic Inquisition Warrior Acolytes Inquisition Familiar

Hi all, Some new bases arrived today and as such I have decided that I need to introduce you all to my crusade. As such I hereby Declare the beginning of the righteous Sanctus Crusade! The crusade was formed from the remains of numerous other completed crusades which had been denied the honor of fighting on armageddon due to their diminished numbers. Each finished crusade provides the expertise from their previous campaigns and adds new elements of warfare with which they are accustomed to, as such these elite warriors of mankind have come together under a new marshal to wage war upon the enemies of mankind. This marshals name: Mortus Helstrom, the aim of this campaign is a simple one: the recovering of sacred artifacts in the name of the emperor and smiting all that oppose him. So this model isn't finished converting yet or even glued to its base so is far from finished but gives a general gist as to what he should turn out as, without further ado I give you Marshal Helstrom! http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah78/Btemp93/temporary_zps0fef7366.jpg?t=1419601794 http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah78/Btemp93/temporary_zps7d441f68.jpg?t=1419601801http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah78/Btemp93/temporary_zps7a8bdf8c.jpg?t=1419601800 Stay posted I have alot of things to post up! TEST IMAGE http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah78/Btemp93/20170321_103634_zps3jda8ndz.jpg

Black Templars were my first army, and I have around 5000-6000 points now, and I still intend to add to it slowly over time. However after looking into the lore around Armageddon, I wanted my second army to be Steel Legion. ✠ THE BLACK TEMPLARS ✠ THE STEEL LEGION (WiP)

Okay, I've been thinking about this for a while now, and with the range of opinions from those in this forum, I figured that this was the best place to pose this query. I've been wanting to write a "fluff" piece focusing on recruitment, Chapter Keep training, and training alongside an Initiate for quite some time. I have done quite a bit of research into the matter, including seeing when the various implants are given and at what ages, which ones we are "Zygote Deficient" in, some standard and not-so-standard recruitment practices used by various Chapters, but not a lot of insight into the manner in which the recruit/Neophyte is trained once selected to be an Astartes. To keep it simple, the day-to-day physical, mental, and spiritual conditioning that all potential recruits go through. I have a few thoughts on the matter, but I would also like to hear from my brothers on your opinions. Now, I would assume that it involves a metric ton of physical training, combat drills and tactics courses, religious indoctrination (given our lore recently), and psycho-conditioning. If anyone here has anything they think would be specific, I would love to hear it.

+ + + Incoming Vox Transmission + + + ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + Greetings Brothers -- I am a newly inducted Neophyte of the Black Templars, following the liberation of my home system by the Tiberior Crusade. I send you this transmission in hopes to advance my training and learn from senior Initiates of the order. The vile alien and heretic are craven in the face of the Emperor, my Brothers, and they avoid honourable confrontation at all costs -- To be expected, as the foes of the Emperor are deceitful and treacherous. Would it be wise to arm ourselves with long-range firepower to crush our enemies from afar, in reproach to these disgraceful tactics? Our armoury boasts a wide selection of destructive armaments, and our unique battle doctrine allows us to equip our Crusaders with the devastating Lascannon and Plasma Gun in a single combat squad. As Templars, we seek nothing more than to purge the unclean with our righteous zeal, however it is necessary that we bring ruin to the enemy's transports and warmachines, that we might take our glorious battle to them. So what say you, Brothers? Have your Crusades found utility in this strategy? I beseech you to impart your wisdom, and await your response transmission. For Dorn, For Sigismund, and For The Emperor! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + + + End Transmission + + + (Translation, I'm a new BT player and I'm about to make my first purchases to start my army in a few hours. I've already got the Chapter Upgrade, but I don't know whether I should buy Assault Marines or Tacticals & Devastators. I mostly play against mobile, shooty armies like Eldar and Guard in my local meta, who would happily set up on the other side of the table and shoot me to bits before I can get close -- and I would actually like to win some games, so my question is: Do I go with the standard Chainsword + Powerweapons set up, or will I find more success running a shooty build of my own? I'm thinking MSU, Lascannon + Plasma Gun in every squad, mounted in Lascannon Razorbacks. Would you experienced players say this is a more competitive loadout? I'd also appreciate advice on an effective low-points-value army list for me to strive towards so I can start playing ASAP -- say, 1,000 points. Thanks for your help and advice!)

Greetings Brothers. So I've been working on my Crusade for a long time now and i thought it was about time i shared some of the results with my fellow crusading brothers. I've been lurking on this forum for ages now but have never had the confidence to post my work i haven't really came up with a back ground for them unfortunately but i hope you guys like what I've done so far this isn't all of my Crusade i have about 5000 points or more in different stages of being painted and about another 10000 or so not built. my army so far: about 4 Emperors Champions Chaplain Grimaldus High Marshall Helbrecht 3 Marshalls 3 Chaplains 4 Castilians/Lieutenants 1 tech marine 1 set of Command tanks 6 venerable dreadnoughts 3 ironclad dreadnoughts 2 sword brethren with jumpacks/vanguard veteran squads 4 contemptor dreadnoughts 12 Crusader squads 6 stabby 6 shooty (20 shooty neophytes) 2 assault squads 2 devastator squads sadly only 1 land raider crusader 1 las plas predator ( the forge world one but not actually ) 2 drop pods 2 rhinos probably several things I've forgotten and about a million other things that are WiP. i will aim to keep this up to date as regularly as i can with WiP photos and finished projects i hope you guys will help keep me motivated.

Greetings Brothers... Newest video from Bruva Alfabusa, the creator of "If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech" videos analyzes the Black Templars Chapter for their sheer hatred and unquenchable zeal. Contains a lot of swearing though so viewer discretion is advised... here's the link: If the Emperor had a Podcast - Episode 2: The Black Templars, Dorn's Angry Boys Discussions on the topic if you want below.

About two weeks ago Honda obliged me with my first game of 8th Edition and for me to get a chance to get my game in for the Iron Gauntlet. We ventured out to Goldmine games in Richmond TX, a friendly and super awesome local hobby shop. We claimed their urban table for our game. We used the Patrol deployment, with the combined Imperial Fist/Black Templar force deploying in the North East corner of the table the Dreadnoughts and Artillery of the Warriors set up in the Southwest. (note: The Pre-pre-battle Fluff and the pre-battle fluff http://i.imgur.com/UsCT7EM.jpg Belligerents: November Warriors: Tyberos The Red Wake as Headmaster-Captain Tybault Cataphractii Captain as Adjutant-Captain Bartlot (Combi-Melta, Chainfist) Legion of the Damned as The Ghosts Of Razgriz: Sgt. Blaze (Power Axe, Flamer, Heavy Flamer) Cataphractii Terminators: Sgt.Eyerton (Twin Lightning Claw) Tartaros Terminators: Sgt.Sennan (Twin Lightning Claw) Indomitus Terminator: Sgt.DeSilvra (Twin Lightning Claw) Ironclad Dreadnought: Sands of Futuro - Ancient Alixos (Storm Bolter, Chain Fist, Melta) Mortis Contemptor: Los Canas Avenged - Ancient Zinard (Kheres Assault Cannons, CML) Relic Javelin: Clarity of Purpose (Typhoon ML, Multi-Melta) Pilot: Sgt. Lincan Co-Pilot: Caldus Vex Rapier Quad Mortar: Retribution's Thunder Gunner: Qwentar Gunner: Hayvia Non-Aligned Imperial Forces: Templars: Grimaldus Priamus (Emperor's Champion) 1 x 10 man Crusader squad (Pfist, BP/Chainswords) 1 x 5 man Crusader squad (Las/Plas) 1 x 5 man Crusader squad (HBolter/Plas) 3 x Whirlwinds 1 x Ghost Talon IF: Primaris Lieutenant Apothecary 1 x 5 man Tactical squad (with something) 2 x 5 man Intercessors 2 x 5 man Hellblasters http://i.imgur.com/mrSwuKm.jpg Apologies to Honda, this is the best overall army picture that was taken, everything else ended up quite blurry. http://i.imgur.com/Q2mhUdU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6JmqPlo.jpg The Battle started with the Dreadnoughts Sands of Futuro and Los Canas Avenged moving towards the Chronometric Chamber. The Rapier Quad Mortar Retributions Thunder fires on the Primaris contingent, scoring first blood by killing an Intercessor. Los Canas Avenged was able fire it's Cyclone missile launcher to take a second kill, this time removing a Hellblaster. http://i.imgur.com/bp2IMsg.jpg Honda wasn't about to allow those wounds to go unanswered, thus the Imperial Fist Primaris Marines charged across the bridge towards the location we called the chapel annex. Both Hellblasters and Intercessors fired at Los Canas Avenged, but it was to no effect. http://i.imgur.com/ylE4zgl.jpg Turn two brought on more reinforcement, Assault Terminators and Adjutant-Captain Bartlot teleported near the chamber to encircle it. The Ghost of Razgriz teleported in to block the Primaris Marines from moving further towards the Chamber. The Javelin Landspeeder "Clarity of Purpose" flew in behind the dreadnoughts to add ranged fire support. While everyone fired at the incoming intercessors, only 3 went down to wounds by the Javelin, the Contemptor and bolter shots by the Razgriz. http://i.imgur.com/Gowf6WO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/KrD2IQN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/G56FgMN.jpg The Templars then began to reinforce their gene-cousins walking on from the eastern edge, not quite as many of them made it as Honda had hoped, thus he spent one of his command points to re-roll for reserves, which unfortunately for him, wasn't to be. What did work in his favor though was firing a Lascannon and a plasma gun into Los Canas Avenged, wounding it to the point where it was slower and less likely to hit. http://i.imgur.com/wCrLgbT.jpg The third turn continued to go well for the November Warriors. Tartaros Terminators with Captain Tybault were able to teleport in. Both dreadnoughts scored kills on the intercessors, wiping them for a victory point. But this would be the start of the swing back. http://i.imgur.com/eR6UbAD.jpg The Templars were able to bring in some artillery support via a whirlwind that somehow perched itself on a set of stairs. I feel there should be note about how this could only be accomplished with the assistance of some sort of magic or psyker, just a note . That Whirlwind was worth whatever magic they used to get it in place since it immediately was able to bring the last wounds off the the Contemptor Los Canas Avenged. The Templar GhostTalon also made it's way on the board coming in from the north firing on the Novemberine to some effect, mostly mitigated by good save rolls but seriously wounding some of the Indomitus Terminators. The remaining hellblasters fired into the amassed terminators but again the terminators made their saves. http://i.imgur.com/Qk2eHkT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/D3vuanK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/USo2vHL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/01uxiSf.jpg Turn 4 saw the Terminators consolidated around the Chronometric chamber, keeping their captains screened from being shot by the flanking tactical squads. Sands of Futuro fired into those squads, but the sheer willpower of their chaplain kept them going. Allowing them to also remove the Sand of Futuro from action. The Javelin Clarity of Purpose had a plan, they would engage the GhostTalon, after shooting failed, they decided to ram it. Which both being aircraft is never a good idea, especially when the GhostTalon was able to fire a wave of overwatch shots that destroyed the relic aircraft. The men the command of Sgt. Blaze would find themselves overwhelming the last of the Hellblasters, allowing them to prepare to jump down and engage the Primaris Lt. http://i.imgur.com/6LAHNkt.jpg The GhostTalon repositioned to support the assaulting Templars, but it's angles of attack were mostly restricted by terrain. The Flanking templar forces charged in to attack waves. Their plan was interrupted by the use of stratagem Counter Offensive, allowing them wipe one of the 5 man squads charging it before it went down. The Emperor's champion was able to charge into the squad of Tartaros Terminators bringing much distress to them as he successfully applied multiple wounds to the much heavier armoured November Warriors. http://i.imgur.com/728KaJi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JarcFVb.jpg Turn 5 was the make it or break it turn for the Warriors. The Cataphractii terminators failed their reserve roll again, and with all their heavy support gone, things looked grim. The Ghosts had hopped down from their perch on the annex to directly engage the Imperial Fist Primaris Lt. who was sure to make things difficult. Thus a liberal application of flame took out three wounds from the Lt before the Ghosts charged in to bring him low and take him out of the battle. The Tartaros terminators were still stuck in against the Emperors Champion, hoping to keep him from attacking our Captains and all the buffs and de-buffs that would entail. http://i.imgur.com/xeQYTNt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3sDE3RS.jpg The Templars renewed their wall of fire, with a Hellblaster squad able to get the kill on an Indomitus armoured Terminator. The Magic whirlwind loosed a great fire unto the remaining Indomitus Sgt. killing him and wiping that squad. Now for this last bit we messed up the rule a bit, a squad of 5 intercessors charged the Cataphractii captain, and laid down such a wallop with his combi-melta that it took all 5 of them out, even if the rules say otherwise. At the end of this turn as the attacker I rolled to see if the battle continued. Lucky for the November Warriors it didn't. Thus we recovered our magic phonebooth outside of Circle K. http://i.imgur.com/kceEcel.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vgqyTHQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nFCoaMq.jpg Many thanks to Honda for joining me in this game, as always it is a joy to not only see such great models, but to hang out and spend the day in great company. Also many thanks to Goldmine Games, their variety and quality of tables is exceptional. More images can be found at http://imgur.com/a/F4GU6 and in Honda's battle report at http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/253019-the-albigensian-crusade-2nd-8th-game-080717/?p=4848644

Hail brothers! I've decided to create a holy crusade of our sacred brotherhood by myself. As I'm not plaing or collecting the minis, this will only consist of fluff, sorry. Its task will be to investigate the so called Dominion of Storms. Because of the Great Rift and its repercussions, Terra did lost contact to several well habituated regions deep within the Dominion, including three entire Space Marine chapters and additional forces. Acknowledging their determination and them being a crusade incarnate, did Roboute Guiliman request the help of Highmarshal Helbrecht and his Black Templars. Soon after did Helbrecht announce the Tempestus Crusade, which will be heading towards the Dominion. Its task: - find out of what happened to the loyal forces - reconquer lost territory - find stable connecting routes to the Imperium Nihilus Further did Lord Guiliman attached several supporting elements to this potentially crucial crusade: - a contigent of Primaris Marines, descending from his brother Dorn - several Imperial Guard & Tempestus Scions regiments - other potential allies like the Mechanicum, Sisters of Battle, Knights (not sure of what I'll make use of, as for now) So basically I'm intending to create a Liber Astartes article. Why am I posting in here, you might ask? Easy. I want to be sure of a couple of details regarding recent events and releases. And where to get better answers than here? ^^ Here are my questions: As far as I know did the Adeptus Custodes join Guiliman during the Indomitus Crusade. Are they still spread across the Imperium or would they accompany such a crusade like mine? What kind of "new" stuff did we get with the 8th edition codex? Any clues about their relation towards Primaris? I got some assumptions regarding Primaris: They will most likely have Librarians, right? That might lead to some heavy tensions between the Primaris and their Astartes brothers. The BTs deny the witch. Those Primaris can only descend from the 30K Imperial Fists Legion. That would mean that they are the sons of Dorn but not of Sigismund, leading to the assumption that they might not be as zealous as their 40K BT brothers. Furthermore, the usage of Libarians was allowed / ordered by Guiliman, ignoring the Edict of Nikaea. The BTs only adhere to the Emperor's edicts. Therefore, they might not accept RGs decree and continue to refuse to make use of the Librarians. How do the Black Templars fight these days? Still like the old days? Or did they changed / adapt to recent releases like Centurions? Do they make use of Devastors and the likes? Or is it open for everyone? What do you think? If this was already discussed previously, I'm sorry. Would be lovely if someone could give me an appropiate link. Thanks in advance! :) Kelborn

If Anyone's interested in increasing Templar related gear, here's a pretty cool design Templar Shirt Not advertising for their company... just telling people in case their interested... I already bought one for myself :p

Hi Here is what I have finished in my little army of IV legion Here I have Centurion Delegatus with Power Sword 2x Centurion with Charnabal Blade and Boarding Shield Centurion Forge Lord with Power Sword, Augury Scanner\Nuxio Vox and Plasma Pistol 5 men Veteran's Serg with Power Fist 10 men Tyrant Siege Terminator 5 men Iron Havok with Lascannons Rino Deredeo Pattern Dreadnout with Anvilus Pattern Autocannon Battery Legion Typhon Heavy Siege Tank And Sicaran Battle Tank with Heavy BoltersComing Soon: Heavy Iron Leviathan Dreadnout Contemptor Dreadnout's Deredeo Pattern Dreadnout

=======Mechanicus Log======= ======M41.969==Q4===== ===Segmentum.....Tempestus=== ======Form:ex25c-AAc======= ===Asset Assignment and construction=== ==Priority Assignment: Adeptus Astartes== ==Astartes Designation: Black Templars== =====Order Approval Code Acquired===== ===Orbital Assets Requested=== ===Strike Cruiser designated: Inwit's Resolve== ===Retrofit to Vanguard Class: Approved==== ===Retrofit assigned to Planet: Inwit=== ===Escort Vessels=== ===Gladius Class Rapid Strike vessel=== ==Quantity: 3====Request Approved=== ==Nova Class Rapid Strike Vessel== ==Quantity: 1====Request De-01001001== ==Request Approved== ==Construction Assigned to Planet: Bakka== ====Orbital Assets Conclude==== ===Small Arms Manufactoring==== =====Request Inventory====== ===Astartes Pattern Rhino=== =Astartes Pattern Razorback= =Land Speeder Storm Pattern= ========Land Speeder======== ====Storm Talon Gunship===== =====Astartes Predator====== =====Astartes Whirlwind===== ======Astartes Stalker====== ======Astartes Bike======== =Assorted Small arms and ammunition= =Astartes Acquisition code recognised= =Fill order to Astartes Specification= +Approval Given by Archmagos of segmentum Tempestus+ +Asset inventory ratified by Marshall Bellemond Andovus+ +log ends+ And on that I shall stake the Beginnings of what will become to be known as The Remembrancer Crusade. I had for a while been in the works of Constructing a mounted fighting company of the Black Templars. Having recently acquired the materials for a second fighting company, as well as the launch of 8th edition I am looking to get both companies fully constructed and painted. This will be a WIP Thread that I hope will encourage me to get these companies to be fully painted which I find to be the most difficult to be motivated to engage with. You can expect to see a tank mounted fighting company of the size of 58 marines with ~12 tanks by the time it's fully constructed, as well as a 45 strong fighting company composed of Bikers, Speeders and Ariel assets. I'll also be fleshing out the history of these companies, and their dramatis personae over the period of this thread. Expect over the next couple of days to see the current status of my Templar Assets and some of what's in store. Also You'll be delighted to know that I'll be getting rid of my Grey Knights in preparation for them. Thus this Thread comes with the guarantee that Psykers were harmed in the making of this Thread! I'm Looking forward to seeing how this turns out for me and hope it'll be of interest to the Black Templar Board!

A bit of pre-amble. This would be my third attempt at making a black templars crusade, with my first being trying to copy the box art of 3rd edition all those years ago with inexperience and the second a bit more than a year ago with the dark grey with multiple black washes method. I didn't really like it apart from taking ages to do so now I've tried something new. Hence the thread title. As back up I've got a metallic and plain black spray too. So as a starting point I've made 5 initiates of a crusader squad from of various kits and bits and have a sword brethren terminator squad made of deathwing knights and black templar shields and pads in construction. And here we are. What are people's opinions? Is it too glossy? Of course this means that highlighting it will be very different and I'm not too sure how that will go. And as for fluff, I haven't got any yet. So a hello to the sub forum.

This is my Crusade Thread; basically a mix of kitbashes, painting logs, battle reports and short story pieces, chonologing the growth of my home-grown crusade. Hope you enjoy something amongst all the nonsense BIG EDIT: Photobucket broke all my pictures... they are back up again, but not sure if this is permanent. In the meantime, here is my library in case you really want to see anything particular: http://s1287.photobucket.com/user/matzeke/library/?sort=3&page=1 First, some background info on the crusade: (For WIP, scroll down to pictures) The brethren of what is now known as the Renascibilitas Crusade were thought lost by their fellow templars when their flotilla vanished into the warp while pursuing a particularly destructive pirate fleet of twisted Eldar sadists, after a long and bitter campaign to push the Xenos back. After many years had passed, the return of these missing brothers came as a surprise. More surprising was their reluctance to discuss exactly where they had been, or why their numbers had dwindled. This information was deemed only for the ears of the high marshal himself. Since their return, the fiery and stoic force have remained distinct from some of their younger and more excitable chapter-brothers. Nevertheless, they demonstrate an unswerving loyalty to the will of the Emperor, and hold strong to some clear truths: The Emperor is the single greatest triumph of mankind and loyalty to him and his design is their highest priority. The Emperor's wisdom is to be respected. He chose to employ certain sanctioned psychic individuals to further his great goals, yet he decreed that his loyal marines should be free from that great burden and temptation. Those battle-brothers who have forgotten this are derided and scorned publicly, and rarely trusted or tolerated on the battlefield. 'Friendly' warning shots have been fired, as have less-friendly ones. This suspicion extends to all pyskers to some degree, but while essential tools of the imperium (astropaths etc) are tolerated within strict boundaries, the reckless use of battle-psykers means that inquisitors and librarians are viewed as one step away from the Xenos and the Heretic. This hasn't stopped the pragmatic leadership of the crusade from working with various chapters, inquisitors and members of the ecclesiarchy, but more than one ally has found that the templars can be fickle in their support. The crusade brothers are closely bonded themselves, likely due to their unspoken experiences in their missing years. As an old brotherhood, they remember the old ways, and the emperors truth. They respect the greatest man to have walked the galaxy, ritualising and dramatising their faith in his mind and design. They crusade in the name of man, not of a god. Their faith and zeal burns bright, a cleansing flame in the dark.