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Hello, I am here today to talk about my favourite chapter space marines, the Black Templar, and their current state in 6th edition.

I have played BT ever since I learned how to play WH40K, and to a reasonable rate of success.

At the beginning of 6th edition, there were a few teething problems, as I guess there was with every other player and there army, and I really couldn't seem to get a win. What with the changes to assaults, the fact that my tanks, even my beloved LRC could be glanced to death, and most of all, we lost the original version of Preferred Enemy, nerfing one of the things I most loved about this army.

Challenges also hurt, as the only character in our dex with WS6 was the Emperors Champion, and although he was amazing, couldn't cut it with just 2 wounds against most other armies.
I did eventually find a technique that worked, and I was getting victories over Space Wolves, Orks, Tau and Necrons regularly, but with following FAQ's and the release of new super cool codexes, they went back in the box, and there they stayed a for a long time.

A few weeks ago I decided to take them out for a game against a friends Dark Angels army... and I can say... I got well and truly mashed up. Only had like 3 Crusaders left on the table.
The list I ran was the same as what I had regular success with, revolving around a Marshal in TA with TH/SS and a few other goodies, in a LRC with 5 assault termies (2xLC 3xTH/SS) and an attached Master of Sanctity for his Litanies of Hate. These worked well against a squad of tacticals, but then the deathwing showed up and pretty much blew them off the table :(

The LRC fell to Smite mode from the Deathwing Knights so so easily, my transports were glanced to death by missile fire, and my objective holding crusader squads were shot down by plasma cannon fire within 2 turns. My only hope was that my Emperors Champion with his squad of 9 Initiates and 5 Neophyts could get down the flank and begin rolling up his back line. Well... that never happened. His squads had so much fire power, and a banner that gave them even more, and a cheesy Librarian leading them, I didnt stand a chance. The few men I got into charge distance were swiftly shot dead by overwatch.

So, in my opinion, Black Templars, although still the coolest guys around, just canny stand up to these new codexes and what toys they have to play with.
Until we get a new book, (which hopefully shouldn't be too long), they are staying in the box a while longer

Let me know how you fair against these new armies, or of any BT builds that can stand up against them, would love to hear about it.

Thank you Brothers!

That's a great response and I agree entirely. Black Templars are very difficult to use, but if done right, can manage a win. I can even still get wins against the older codexes.
I want to know how we do against the New super armies, the tau, daemons, chaos and those DA because as far as I can tell, it's not even worth deploying on the battlefield against them.


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 PunkNeverDie110 wrote:

DftS gave you the Stormraven and the Stormtalon.
Ok, not very BT-ish, but now you can kick some ass.

I wouldn't count on it... Every other army has some form of skyfire, or flyers that are much better than these 2 we can field.
A new codex is our only hope?