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I got a bunch of the Khorne guys from Age of Sigmar, and have been trying to think of what to run them as for 40k. The regular less armored infantry really don't look right as cultists, they're way too bulky and mean-looking, basically space marines without their armor on. Which would make using them as marine scouts pretty great, since those are just space marines in 4+ armor. But I also wanted to keep them close-combat oriented, and the best army for that would seem to be Black Templars, since they like to run into melee and take their scouts with them.

I haven't really messed with Black Templars in a long time though, can they still do big blobs of marines and scouts charging forward like they used to? What special weapons do they pack? And what, if any vehicles would they run as support? I kinda want to have the right conversions down before I go out and buy the book.

Black Templars use the Vanilla Marines codex, except they also get access to Helbrecht, Grimaldus, the Emperor's Champion, and Crusader Squads (max of 10 MEQ and 5 GEQ scouts with two special weapons instead of 1 special and 1 heavy). The penalty they pay is losing access to Librarians.

That sounds perfect for Khorne then, they can't take psykers anyway. I think I might pick up that Lord of Skulls-on-legs as a Knight ally and give all my dudes robo-arms in an attempt to emulate their god-king and save on buying more special weapons.



The resemblance is uncanny!

Why not just run KDK?

I want to run the beefy unarmored guys as something better than just cultists. And it matches the fluff pretty well, they're aspiring warriors proving their worth. Heck, switch the words Khorne and Emperor and there's not much difference between them and Black Templars.

 Badablack wrote:
I want to run the beefy unarmored guys as something better than just cultists. And it matches the fluff pretty well, they're aspiring warriors proving their worth. Heck, switch the words Khorne and Emperor and there's not much difference between them and Black Templars.

Emperor Daemon-kin?

I like.

This thread is heresy.

IMO, they don't really fit with the BT theme ! Maybe you could use BT rules from the latest SM codex but frankly, you're going to have to proxy a whole lot of your army. Your opponents could find this disturbing.

 Badablack wrote:
That sounds perfect for Khorne then, they can't take psykers anyway. I think I might pick up that Lord of Skulls-on-legs as a Knight ally and give all my dudes robo-arms in an attempt to emulate their god-king and save on buying more special weapons.



The resemblance is uncanny!

Perfect for Khorne. Knock yourself out!


I'm as accepting as the next guy, but this would rub me the wrong way to use them as Templars. Those are NOT Black Templars.

These are fething Black Templars.













If you insist on that, that's certainly your prerogative. To each their own.