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Agreed, the Templar list is terrible.

Not to dog on your opponent, maybe it is a combination of your unintentional misrepresentation of the list and some hidden combo that I fail to see, but his list as you presented in has some obvious faults.

Like, why are his Crusader Squads sizes so small? Chaplains with Servitors are still a valid option (though I would argue a "meh" one) but why are the accompanying Crusader squad sizes so small.

Why not take a Marshall to get the higher leadership, and roll two of those squads into one big 20 man Squad?

Even in Black Templars you need some Thunderhammer Terminators to handle Dreadnoughts and monstrous creatures. He made a pretty big mistake trying to tackle the Blood Crushers with the Terminators.

Those are just a few the things that stand out about the list, as you present it.

You also have to consider that BT can easily play the reserves game with you. You are assuming that versus a Land Raider list, you are getting your prefered wave and shooting them when you drop in.

The BT player can easily hold them in reserve, react to your deployment (IE flank you), and pop the "only glancing hits" smoke it has. That is not the only tactic, but one the BT have at their disposal. Like CK was saying, there is almost no reason that BT aren't getting the charge, everytime.