You know you're a Black Templar when....

[BitsHammer]

...you end up writing an overly long post by phone about the Scouring Era Templars on your phone just to ensure you don't forget anything before you can get onto a computer.

 

...your normal facial expressions (or lack thereof) make people assume you're "mad" all the time.

[Ciler]

... when, when looking for the "rules" for armies on parade, you can't help but say "well hello there"

https://armiesonparade.com/2016/07/28/what-is-armies-on-parade/

[BitsHammer]

...when someone complaining about a person cutting the heresy out of C:IA (basically all the psyker nonsense) leads you to accuse them of being a Librarian.

[Marshall Bretton]

when you spend so long exploring the stunning Black Templars ship on space hulk that you fail the mission because there is a time limit

 

when you don't care that you failed the mission because of how beautiful it was aboard the ship

[BitsHammer]

...You recommend Helsreach as the book on what a Marine should be and supplement it with Blood and Fire to show the overall Imperium as it's seen inside the setting.

...You recommend Helsreach as the book on what a Marine should be and supplement it with Blood and Fire to show the overall Imperium as it's seen inside the setting.

[AndrewChristlieb]

...You recommend Helsreach as the book on what a Marine should be and supplement it with Blood and Fire to show the overall Imperium as it's seen inside the setting.

...You recommend Helsreach as the book on what a Marine should be and supplement it with Blood and Fire to show the overall Imperium as it's seen inside the setting.

When Helsreach and Blood and Fire are so good it bears repeating in the same post. ;)

[BitsHammer]

My phone phone does a weird double post thing when the connection gets spotty.

 

It's likely the machine spirit trying to prove itself worthy of posting on a Black Templars board by double tapping.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

My phone phone does a weird double post thing when the connection gets spotty.

 

It's likely the machine spirit trying to prove itself worthy of posting on a Black Templars board by double tapping.

A twin-linked cell phone or smartphone? The Techmarines will love that. Before you know it, they'll wire your phone to a heavy bolter, so it may serve in the Emperor's name.

[BitsHammer]

...When you trim your digital Space Marine codex down to a ~94 page pamphlet of what actually matters out of the book for easy Crusading.

 

...When you consider having a crusade fall through the warp from the 1st Black Crusade to the 13th just to justify MKIII power armour in a Land Raider Crusader.

 

...When you consider that the above may be too silly and you should stop that.

 

...When it's so cold outside that you swear you just saw Space Wolves outside and your first response is to threaten them with a flea bath.

 

...When you realize the Space Marine video game would have been better if it was about the Geonide Crusade.

[Honda]

...You recommend Helsreach as the book on what a Marine should be and supplement it with Blood and Fire to show the overall Imperium as it's seen inside the setting.

...You recommend Helsreach as the book on what a Marine should be and supplement it with Blood and Fire to show the overall Imperium as it's seen inside the setting.

 

 

It bears repeating.

 

ZEAL!

[BitsHammer]

...When you consider using a Neophyte as a meatshield to help them build an immunity to bullets.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

...When you consider using a Neophyte as a meatshield to help them build an immunity to bullets.

Will the poor Neophyte be held by the ankle and swung about like a Thunder hammer, to numb him (literally and figuratively) to fear and pain, as well as allow him to harm the enemy despite his inexperience and lack of training?

[Soldier of Dorn]

When the first thing you do following the new update of Overwatch is equip this new spray.

When you main Reinhardt, too. :P

[BitsHammer]

...When Invictus Potents and Tankred are Dreadnought names in your army.

 

...When you know that Tankred is this thread's patron.

 

...When you keep finding yourself wanting to make a "Skippy's List" for Black Templars.

 

...When your phone develops a machine spirit to aid in your posting even if your internet connection is shaken or stunned.

 

...When "face punching the enemy so hard their skull flies out their backside"is a life goal when list building.

 

...When considering allies you first ensure they aren't tainted with witches, mutants, xenos or traitors.

 

...When allying in lesser and less lesser Marine chapters you treat them like Neophytes as they haven't "learned to be a real Marine yet".

 

...Modelling all you models with close combat weapons is considered not only important but required for you.

 

...You are no longer invited to parties a after what happened with that clown.

Edited January 4, 2017 by Fulkes

[Link2edition]

... When you read what a dishonor it is for a neophyte to let their master die before they do in "Seasons of Shadows" and realize that "learn to be a meatshield scrub" is literally your chapters doctrine for newcomers.

[Marshal Wolfhart]

...when after reading about Tzaanuary you wonder how to burn an entire month from its filthy existence...

[Marshal Arthur]

When the first thing you do following the new update of Overwatch is equip this new spray.

When you main Reinhardt, too.

Anyone else think the symbol on his tabard looks like the Abbey of the Everyman symbol in the Dishonored games?

On a related note you know you're a Black Templar when you sympathize with the Abbey and its Overseers for burning witches and challenging the dark powers of the void/warp.

[CantusMaximGloria]

... There couldn't be a better way to start the new year than putting together your first Emperor's Champion.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

...when after reading about Tzaanuary you wonder how to burn an entire month from its filthy existence...

The word "month" is named for moons, with which people measured the passage of time.

 

The obvious means of dealing with a tainted moon, is to use a warship's lance batteries to brand the Aquila onto its surface, purifying the satellite's surface with fire. If anyone remains stupid enough to name a length of time after a Chaos God, aim the lance batteries onto the planet the moon is orbiting, and open fire- if an Exterminatus is needed to remove the taint, then so be it.

[Marshal_Roujakis]

 

...when after reading about Tzaanuary you wonder how to burn an entire month from its filthy existence...

The word "month" is named for moons, with which people measured the passage of time.

 

The obvious means of dealing with a tainted moon, is to use a warship's lance batteries to brand the Aquila onto its surface, purifying the satellite's surface with fire. If anyone remains stupid enough to name a length of time after a Chaos God, aim the lance batteries onto the planet the moon is orbiting, and open fire- if an Exterminatus is needed to remove the taint, then so be it.

 

 

Use Grav technology to push the moon towards the planet... they wanted to do Witchcraft + Daemon Worship, well there you go...

[Link2edition]

Here is one from last night.

...When you use a handful of Templar figures to proxy some units you are thinking of buy for your "Bad guy" army and feel bad about it afterwards.... Until you realize you were fighting xenos and they were probably cool with the chance to purge xenos no matter what army they were representing.

[BitsHammer]

...When you spend your free time thinking about Sigismund and his Templars (nicked from another thread).

[BitsHammer]

...your username is accidently similar to a real Templar's (Fulkes -> Fulk).

[Bjorn Firewalker]

When you deal with moral dilemmas by asking yourself, "What would Reclusiarch Grimaldus do?"

The answer is always the one that will kill more enemies of the Imperium in the long term. If that means you'll kill fewer enemies in the short term- enduring the shame of withdrawing to more defensible ground, as Grimaldus did at Helsreach, ultimately choosing the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant to simultaneously raise his allies' morale and encouraging them to kill more Orks- so be it.

Edited January 8, 2017 by Bjorn Firewalker

[BitsHammer]

...when you spend hours staring at Templars with the intent of trying to find ways to make them more Crusading Knight flavored.

 

...when your impatience for leaks for this release wakes up up in the middle of the night to check for more information in hopes of seeing what a Crusade detachment has (I have yet to sleep a whole night since I heard by were in this campaign).