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Has anyone found some good black templar background information yet?

Thanks

Try reading their codex.

I did, it is not very comprehensive.

Then read Helsreach by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. It gives a lot of insight on how the BT work.

Anything besides that?

The Lexicanum article.

Damnation Crusade looked pretty good.

I believe its a comic series following the BT

UNREALPwnage wrote:Has anyone found some good black templar background information yet?

Thanks

What sort of background in particular are you looking for?

Lexicanum, Boom studios comics...
And wait for 5'th edition to be released ( this year, September to October I think ), it's going to be a blast ( because our spiritual league is doing it ).

coolyo294 wrote:Then read Helsreach by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. It gives a lot of insight on how the BT work.

Agree completely - it has lots of BT background, and is a very good read with plenty of interesting characters

Brother Coa wrote:Lexicanum, Boom studios comics...
And wait for 5'th edition to be released ( this year, September to October I think ), it's going to be a blast ( because our spiritual league is doing it ).

That's Necrons, not BT. There's no indication whatsoever that I'm aware of that there's a BT Codex incoming within the forseeable future. The fact that we were FAQ-updated also supports the idea that the BT won't get a new 'dex before 6th, which is good IMO.

Brother Coa wrote:And wait for 5'th edition to be released ( this year, September to October I think ), it's going to be a blast ( because our spiritual league is doing it ).

Well that's my intrest in the army killed...

Actually, it isn't confirmed whose doing any of the forthcoming codices, except Sisters of Battle who I'm fairly sure is Phil Kelly.
Coa is making things up as far as I know.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
That's Necrons, not BT. There's no indication whatsoever that I'm aware of that there's a BT Codex incoming within the forseeable future. The fact that we were FAQ-updated also supports the idea that the BT won't get a new 'dex before 6th, which is good IMO.

Are you sure? There is a rumor that BT are next after the Necrons...


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iproxtaco wrote:Actually, it isn't confirmed whose doing any of the forthcoming codices, except Sisters of Battle who I'm fairly sure is Phil Kelly.
Coa is making things up as far as I know.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Black_Templars

Sentence: "Recently it was confirmed that Games Workshop intends to release a new Black Templars codex, either before or after the Necrons get a codex update. Ignoring for a moment that Chaos still hasn't recieved a 5th edition codex when 6th Edition is on the horizon, and the Sisters of Battle are now hopelessly out-of-date, /tg/ emitted manly tears of pain and rage when it was discovered that Matt Ward would be writing it."

I know, 1d4chan, but their rumors proven to be very accurate...

So you really have no source for it?

iproxtaco wrote:So you really have no source for it?

Except rumors no...even new BT codex is just a rumor.
But I wouldn't be surprised if Matt Ward write it. He already wrote Grey Knights...
And ask purplefood, he also told me this...

He's already writing both Tau and Necrons if rumors are to be believed.

I am just glad he is not doing Sisters of Battle...
I want that woman hater away from our pure Daughters of the Emperor...

And I can already imagine new Necrons with Bolter-Gauss weapons...

Is this based on your already sketchy knowledge of the particular event in question? Mat Ward is not the only writer who used Sisters as scapegoats.

I know that, but in his fluff they die in most terrible way. And their bodies get....
Never-mind, I don't want to remember that.

So I'm right in that you still know next to nothing about the event.

I know - I read it 3 times, and it is slowed. It shows that SoB have grater faith then Grey Knights. It is slowed like the codex itself.
I won't speak about it again...

No, it doesn't, it doesn't even say that the Sisters are outright killed, or that their bodies are mutilated.

I didn't even say that their bodies are mutilated. You should read carefully instead of accusing other people for not reading. And it doesen't show?

"Some Battle Sisters are corrupted on
contact with the Bloodtide. Those who endure fight valiantly..." witch indicates that probably their faith save them since Sisters equipment is more then absolute when compared to Grey Knight equipment.

"Needing a talisman of purity to protect against the Bloodttide's taint..." Wait, Grey Knight need protection against corruption even with all of their training and tech while Sisters were protected only by their faith?

It's slowed as I said...

This has been argued far too much, mainly sue to misinformation, and it's also wildly off-topic.

Grey Knights are immune to corruption of the soul, but not of their bodies. The Bloodtide affects both. Some Sisters resisted through their faith, that's perfectly reasonable, its one of their defining factors. To halt the Bloodtide, the Grey Knights required an extra layer of protection to stop from exploding in showers of gore. The Sisters were simply there at the time, it doesn't say they were mutilated, it doesn't say the Knights bathed in their blood, it doesn't even say they were killed for their blood. The Knights defeated the Daemon, end story. Anything else is simple conjecture.

I agree there is alot of questionable fluff in that codex, one being my founding chapter's, Chapter Master Dante agreeing to being mind swipe!

Dante wasn't mind-wiped, only the marines under his command, same with every other chapter barring possibly 2, one for valid reasons, the other due to noble, if disobedient and ignorant reasons.

That doesnt change the fact that it is dum.

Ahahaha! Coa, you did not just try and use 1d4chan as a valid source of rumors, did you? The hell is wrong with you, linking to a *chan-affiliated website on a forum like this?

Brother Coa wrote:I know - I read it 3 times, and it is slowed. It shows that SoB have grater faith then Grey Knights. It is slowed like the codex itself.
I won't speak about it again...

Oh, but you will. You will take every opportunity to mention it, and how stupid you've been conditioned into thinking it is by your peers. You really have no understanding of what happened. No one does. The difference between you and iproxtaco is that while he has attempted to explain the event with the 40K setting's form of rationale in mind, you have allowed others to make up you mind about the codex and Ward, and refuse to change it.

CKO wrote:That doesnt change the fact that it is dum.

Except it does. It is not "dum".

Ironsight wrote:Ahahaha! Coa, you did not just try and use 1d4chan as a valid source of rumors, did you? The hell is wrong with you, linking to a *chan-affiliated website on a forum like this?

Brother Coa wrote:I know - I read it 3 times, and it is slowed. It shows that SoB have grater faith then Grey Knights. It is slowed like the codex itself.
I won't speak about it again...

Oh, but you will. You will take every opportunity to mention it, and how stupid you've been conditioned into thinking it is by your peers. You really have no understanding of what happened. No one does. The difference between you and iproxtaco is that while he has attempted to explain the event with the 40K setting's form of rationale in mind, you have allowed others to make up you mind about the codex and Ward, and refuse to change it.

Maybe you want to "enlighten" me and try to justify that?
Or Draigo?
Or the fact that Grey Knights can call orbital bombardment on themselves and go without a scratch while everything around them is dead and burred...
Or the fact that they got eaten alive by Daemons only to be blown up by that same Grey Knight after 2 - 3 minutes inside?
Or the fact that they can move planets into and out of the warp?
Or that they have armor that can reflect plasma ( Matt Ward way of saying: "f*** you Tau" ).

Please, try to justify me all that. Not that Sisters got slain by Grey Knights ( witch is also slowed ) but the fact that Sisters can repel Bloodtide with only their faith while Grey Knights have holly armor + psychic training + all kind of anti-daemon protection and all that packed int other finest equipment that Imperium can provide. And they cannot resist Chaos corruption and Sisters who have nothing more then their faith can? Something doesn't end up here.... And their Leader Draigo without this Talisman is walking around the warp making Chaos Gods really angry...

And I read Blood Angels to, it was also slowed with fluff and rules. And Codex: Space Marines should be renamed Codex: Ultramarines since only Ultras gain highlight there...
There, I now explained everything with "rationale in mind". and if you still like this kind of fluff may I suggest Batmen or Supermen or anything Marvel. They have a lot of unrealistic, overpowered thing going there...