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

[SWORD BROTHER RYAN]

You might be a black templar if...

 

You aren't lamenting the removal of codexes in 8th ed, because you haven't had one since 4th anyway.

SECONDED!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

You might be a black templar if...

 

You aren't lamenting the removal of codexes in 8th ed, because you haven't had one since 4th anyway.

A true Templar will let NOTHING prevent him from bringing the Emperor's enemies to justice. There's no new Codex? He will write his own to guide his battle-brothers in the arts of war! ('Codex Astartes'? That's only a poor copy of 'Codex Imperial Fists'! You only need to know the words of the Emperor, Dorn, and Sigismund- in that order.)

[Lysere]

 

You might be a black templar if...

 

You aren't lamenting the removal of codexes in 8th ed, because you haven't had one since 4th anyway.

A true Templar will let NOTHING prevent him from bringing the Emperor's enemies to justice. There's no new Codex? He will write his own to guide his battle-brothers in the arts of war! ('Codex Astartes'? That's only a poor copy of 'Codex Imperial Fists'! You only need to know the words of the Emperor, Dorn, and Sigismund- in that order.)

 

 

We're not trapped in the codex with you, you're all trapped in the codex with us or something.

[Castellan Cynebald]

When you hope that 8th Edition's Force Organisation Charts allow for a storm of zeal and purging in the form of 20 LAND RAIDER CRUSADERS! (Armoured focus would be dope!)

[SCOTT_FRANCIS]

 

 

You might be a black templar if...

 

You aren't lamenting the removal of codexes in 8th ed, because you haven't had one since 4th anyway.

A true Templar will let NOTHING prevent him from bringing the Emperor's enemies to justice. There's no new Codex? He will write his own to guide his battle-brothers in the arts of war! ('Codex Astartes'? That's only a poor copy of 'Codex Imperial Fists'! You only need to know the words of the Emperor, Dorn, and Sigismund- in that order.)

 

 

We're not trapped in the codex with you, you're all trapped in the codex with us or something.

 

 

Been saying it all along, we just allowed them to be on the cover cuz there were none of us about when they took the picture, WE WERE OFF CRUSADING!!!

[Link2edition]

"You are stuck in this codex with us"

*Raven Guard hiding in the bushes, Super stealthy*

*Black Templar charges out of adjacent bush revving his chainsword and firing his bolt pistol*

"DAMMIT STEVE!"

[Kastor Krieg]

When you realize how insane your flamer Crusader Squad mob in an LRC will be now. Especially with an EmpChamp or Chappie along for the ride.

 

When your signature unit seems to have become the deathstar in the non-deathstar edition.

Edited April 26, 2017 by Kastor Krieg

[Knight of the Raven]

Been saying it all along, we just allowed them to be on the cover cuz there were none of us about when they took the picture, WE WERE OFF CRUSADING!!!

Move your feet, lose your seat, brah.

"You are stuck in this codex with us"

*Raven Guard hiding in the bushes, Super stealthy*

*Black Templar charges out of adjacent bush revving his chainsword and firing his bolt pistol*

"DAMMIT STEVE!"

Actually Raven Guard don't need bushes, as proven below.

[Lysere]

When you hope that 8th Edition's Force Organisation Charts allow for a storm of zeal and purging in the form of 20 LAND RAIDER CRUSADERS! (Armoured focus would be dope!)

 

I'm hoping we get a way to use a Command point to allow a charge at a unit that is either about to shoot us or has already shot at us. If not I'm going to be a bit sad.

[Brother Darklight]

You might be a black templar if...

 

You aren't lamenting the removal of codexes in 8th ed, because you haven't had one since 4th anyway.

This has basically become the joke in our local group.  The Black Templar player (yours truly) is the only one completely okay with the coming of the new edition since I'm used to disappointment.

 

They're not entirely wrong, mind you.   I look forward to this update in its entirety.  

[Kastor Krieg]

You know you're a Templar Chaplain when your Likes count nearly equals your appreciation point count (3122 posts : 3115 likes).

+ Our Zeal is heard! +

[Honda]

A true Templar will let NOTHING prevent him from bringing the Emperor's enemies to justice. There's no new Codex? He will write his own to guide his battle-brothers in the arts of war! ('Codex Astartes'? That's only a poor copy of 'Codex Imperial Fists'! You only need to know the words of the Emperor, Dorn, and Sigismund- in that order.)

 

 

There is no greater truth than this.

[BitsHammer]

...your first post when back from hiatus crusading is in this thread.

[Kastor Krieg]

...your first post when back from hiatus crusading is in this thread.

Welcome back, Brother! The Feast of Blades would hear of your deeds during the Crusade.

[Knight of the Raven]

You know you're a Black Templar player when your opponent doesn't even dare to use the psychic phase when they face you.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

You know you're a Black Templar player when your opponent doesn't even dare to use the psychic phase when they face you.

You know you're a Black Templar when your models storm your opponent's bookshelf to tear out the entire "Psychic Phase" section from his rule book. Neither of you will see these pages until the game is over, and your models use every page on which the word "psychic" is printed, as kindling for a funeral pyre.

 

If your opponent is lucky, it's his mutant army that'll burn, instead of his dismembered body lying atop his mutant army.

[Kastor Krieg]

 

You know you're a Black Templar player when your opponent doesn't even dare to use the psychic phase when they face you.

You know you're a Black Templar when your models storm your opponent's bookshelf to tear out the entire "Psychic Phase" section from his rule book. Neither of you will see these pages until the game is over, and your models use every page on which the word "psychic" is printed, as kindling for a funeral pyre.

 

If your opponent is lucky, it's his mutant army that'll burn, instead of his dismembered body lying atop his mutant army.

But that's only in the non-competetive, friendly pick up games. We get really nasty during tournament play.

[SWORD BROTHER RYAN]

You know you're a Black Templar when your wife texts you that you should have tried "One of those Unicorn Frapuccino's from Starbucks", thinks that you would have liked it, and you reply:

 

​"Huh? Unicorns are magical creatures, magic is HERESEY, and HERESEY is BAD. Therefore, Unicorns, and any product derived from them, is BAD!

​PURGE THE HERETICAL BEVERAGE!

Edited April 29, 2017 by SWORD BROTHER RYAN

[Knight of the Raven]

The only good use for that horn is impalin'.

[BitsHammer]

Felt like I owed some entries on this list to make up for my absence:

 

...you use any of the following as verbs: crusade, chainsword, Black Sword

..."Muzzle Punch" is your preferred method of attack with a bolter followed by "Butt Stroke"

...you define "bolter" as "a melee weapon that goes 'brrt' while you charge"

...you feel your Crusade could make better use of those Custodes Swords than those golden bananas do

...the 8th edition news about psykers doesn't exist ;)

...Lascannons earn more kills in melee than they do in the shooting phase

...you want GW to decrease your BS value just so you can run and charge on the same turn

...EVERY model in your army has a melee weapon either in their hand or strapped to their waste (bayonets count too)

...you await news about how assault works in more detail because it's the only phase worth caring about (all other phases exist to support assaulting)

...there is no psychic phase.

...you call the assault phase the 'crusading phase'

...you consider going on a witch hunt a wholesome family activity

...you can sum up Neophyte Gillluman's complaints about the Imperium as "not enough Crusading"

...the renaming Helsreach doesn't make the original battle there less awesome but ensures that other lesser chapters can't taint the name with their lesser ways

...any non-Black Templar chapter is a lesser chapter in your eyes

...you know that if Dorn some how comes back he'd be wearing Templar livery due to the amount of ZEAL flowing through his veins at the fustercluck of a mess the current Imperium is thanks to the very rules Neophyte RG left behind in the first place

...you know the real reason the Templars have a copy of the Codex is that it's the right height to fix the wobble on the High Marshall's desk

...Black Templars are the only reason you own a Marine army

...you spend time window shopping for swords at every chance you get

...you use your family coat of arms as a crusade badge for your army

...you your entire paint collection can be divided into just a few groups: black, white, steel, tabard (aka bone white) gold, red (other colors either don't exist or are heretical)

...any depiction of Grimaldus without a silver skull makes you physically uncomfortable

...you spend time wondering if the Ironclad is going to be toughger than a normal Dreadnought, have more wounds, or get a better save in the new edition

...chainsword bayonet conversions are in your army to justify having bolters on your models and not just a Gears of War reference

...when you refer to lighting a psyker on fire with a flamer as 'a weenie roast'

...Crusaders are a part of your daily balanced ZEALOULS diet

...you keep trying to get the FDA to define 'crusade' as a required daily supplement for healthy living

...your 'Sunday best' looks a lot like Templar Knight full plate (because it actually is)

...Orks try to avoid melee combat with your army

...you can bring quantity AND quality to the assault phase with your basic troop choice

...the Emperor's Champion never stopped being a required HQ choice

...you bought the Heresy board games solely for more aquila free weapons and chestplates to fix the oversight by GW's modeling dept

...'Paint it Black' is your first song of choice when painting your army

...when communication with the greater Imperium has been cut off by the Ruinous Powers you work on entries for this list

...your army tactics, regardless of edition, are "brrrt then chop"

...shooting is something your army does only because it can't charge yet

...your best man at the wedding is required to learn swordsmanship to uphold the original purpose of their role

...your response to having your army outflanked and surrounded is to assault crusade in every direction

...you consider the your geneseed brethren as slightly lesser chapters for not having as much ZEAL as they should

...you consider lacking ZEAL a geneseed mutation

...you offer to donate more ZEALOUS geneseed to said slightly lesser chapters and enclose 'Get Well Soon' cards to said donations in an effort to correct their "mutation"

...you use Sisters of Battle as your Neophyte models because the actual scout models aren't ZEALOUS enough

...you grab a sword instead of a shotgun when you think someone might be in your house

...you imagine that your bolters shoot knife bullets like the Punisher's gun so you can stab while you shoot

...you have trouble finding reasons to not launch a crusade at the drop of a hat

...you model your thunderhammers to look more like mauls and middle ages warhammers to fit your army's theme of being crusading knights better

...the most colors on your models can be found on the broken bodies of the lesser armies that decorate the bases.

...your biggest hope for Marines 2.0 is a new Templar box with tabards for all of the torsos

[Knight of the Raven]

...EVERY model in your army has a melee weapon either in their hand or strapped to their waste (bayonets count too)

Ah, my favorite typo.

 

Where do the melee weapon go on vehicles other than dreadnoughts?

[SWORD BROTHER RYAN]

 

...EVERY model in your army has a melee weapon either in their hand or strapped to their waste (bayonets count too)

Ah, my favorite typo.

 

Where do the melee weapon go on vehicles other than dreadnoughts?

 

LRC= Front hatch, a row of them, in between the frag assault launchers

Rhino, Razorback, Predator= a rack all the way across the front, just low enough not to obstruct the driver's view (gotta see what we're impaling!)

Vindicator= a horizontal row jutting out of the dozer blade

Land Speeders+Variants= in place of the assault cannon

Aircraft (all types)= just assume that any rocket propelled weapon has a tactical blade inside

[BitsHammer]

Clearly all of the turret weapons need bayonets.

[Marshal_Roujakis]

 

...EVERY model in your army has a melee weapon either in their hand or strapped to their waste (bayonets count too)

Ah, my favorite typo.

 

Where do the melee weapon go on vehicles other than dreadnoughts?

 

 

http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o622/Marshal_Roujakis/Warhammer%2040k%20Displays/DSC_0051_zps143931cf.jpg

 

And the guy at the cupola has a Power Fist and a Power Sword... need I say more?

[SWORD BROTHER RYAN]

Now THAT is a whole lotta awesome!