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PLaying as the Black Templar assualts are kinda my thing but I play this one guy and all he does is set away as far as he can and pummel me with his ordance and heavy wepons and its really getting at me now but I dont want to quit playing him I want to burn him at every corner any tips?


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O and we usally play 1000 points

Get in rhino's or a similiar vehicle and use that to assualt before he blows you apart?!!



Work with the Orks, not sure why it wouldn't work for you.

I would suggest getting some guns and shooting back, also could you tell us what army the guy you play uses and what units he uses as well. Otherwise all i can suggest is getting some guns to shoot back with.

Get a Land Raider Godhammer with a blessed hull, and shoot back with twinlinked lascannons (I think it's Templars who can do the blessed hull thing...)

I know almost everyone on this board seems to hate the Godhammer, but it's AV14 that will always throw out a BS 4 OR a BS 2 shot (and a twin-linked BS 2 shot isn't so bad)

I know the landraider is also overkill at that point level...so if you don't want to roll out the points for the landraider, stick some guns on top of your rhinos and call them razorbacks, razorbacks are a decent tank (only AV11 sure, but they can carry good twin-linked guns)

Edit: And find cover for your vehicles where you can, or if you can't find cover, MAKE SOME! (hide behind a smoked tank, or hide behind high armor values)

Take a mechanized army with if you can fit it into 1000 pts. take a LR to give him something to shoot at and a dread. Well if he plays IG than it may be pretty difficult to have enough target saturation. Target saturation, infiltration, or deep striking.

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Rhinos: save your from small arms fire and protect you from ordanance.

Guns: don't kill people, people do.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Seriously, as Black Templar you just need transports. I'm not too familiar with the codex, but I don't think you guys have any effective long ranged weaponry so mech up.

Could use Preds with Las cannons, Vindis, and dreads with las/ass cannons and tank hunter. Not a bad start.

He plays a night lord army with raptor squads that have melta guns and meta bombs with a firing squad of lascannon

Land raiders will set you free. A LRC will safely deliver 16 models to assault, and by the time he is close enough to melta your LR down, you will be assaulting him.

If you want to just watch him cry, run 2 of those LRs at 1k points and just pack them each full of troops. Have that be your entire deployment. Field 32 pairs of boots, and 2 tanks for a total of 4VPs.

Remember though -- 2/3 of the games are about objectives, and the other 1/3 is about VPs. Even if he is pummeling your Templar army with ordnance, if you control more objectives at the end of the game you win! The above solution does well on the VP games, but will lose on objective based games.