Black Templars

*"Lead us from death to victory, from falsehood to truth.*

*Lead us from despair to hope, from faith to slaughter.*

*Lead us to His strength and an eternity of war.*

*Let His wrath fill our hearts.*

*Death, war, and blood; in vengeance serve the Emperor in the name of Dorn!"*

- *"Suffer not the Unclean to live", prayer and vow of the Black Templars* (Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition))

## Race Overview

One of the Second Founding Chapters created after the Horus Heresy, the Black Templars are known for their terrifying ferocity in battle, and their zealous crusade against heresy in all its forms. The first Emperor's Champion appointed by Rogal Dorn, Sigismund, founded the Black Templars, though they would stray far from their Imperial Fist brothers. They are on a constant crusade across the galaxy, which allows them a loop hole in the Adeptus Astartes requirement of no more than 1,000 marines per chapter. They number in the multiple of thousands and travel through the Imperium and beyond in their fleet.

## Playstyle

The Black Templars are a very heavily melee oriented loyalist Space Marine faction. Most of their units want to be in the thick of the fight and they have many abilities to help keep them there.

### Righteous Fury

The Black Templars fight with zealous rage to cut down their opponents. As their squads lose models, their attack power will increase.

### Vows

Your crusade is able to choose to declare one of four different vows to enhance your troops. You must choose a vow before you can recruit the Emperor's Champion.

* **Uphold the Honour of the Emperor:** Infantry Defense Bonus
* **Abhor the Witch, Destroy the Witch**: Increased infantry speed near HQ, Emperor's Champion gains anti-psyker abilities.
* **Suffer not the Unclean to Live**: Infantry Melee Combat Strength Bonus
* **Accept any Challenge, no Matter the Odds**: Increased melee accuracy, increased charge range.

### Abhor the Witch

The Black Templars loathe psykers, seeing them as mutants and and affront against nature and the Emperor's natural order. As such, aside an exception for Navigators, the Black Templar do not employ Librarians or any other type of psyker, which causes them to have less ability to detect infiltrators. You will need to use Skull Probes and later the Damocles to find your hidden enemies.

### Deep Strike (Black Templars)

After building the Orbital Relay you will gain the ability to deep strike many of your units, from Space Marines to even Dreadnoughts. Terminators are only built at the Stronghold Barrack but are able to Deep Strike directly from this building. This will enable you to reinforce your army in the field quickly during the late game.

### Tiering Up

The Black Templar primarily increase their Technology Tier through add-ons to their HQ building, the Crusade Landing Site. The final Tier upgrade is Heavy Armor Deployment, which is located at the Machine Cult building.

**Technology Tiers**
 2
 3
 4
 Titan T1
Machine Cult

### Increasing Population

To increase your infantry population caps, simply purchase the appropriate researches from the Stronghold Barracks. For Vehicle cap, research from the Machine Cult.

**Pop Cap Increase**
  **Support (Vehicle Cap)** |  | Vehicle Cap Increase
Machine Cult

## **Units**

### Survival Reinforcements

Listed here are the units granted to the player while playing in Survival Mode at each Tier.

**Tier 1**
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**Tier 2**
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**Tier 3**
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**Tier 4**
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## Buildings

**Tier 2**

**Tier 3**

**Tier 4**