<p class="ShowFluff legend">The Black Templars excel at heavy infantry shock assaults. These talents
Detachment Rules (1)
Zealous Litanies
Employing prayer as other warriors might use combat stimms, the Black Templars roar ritualised words
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Litanies listed below. If you do, until the end of the battle round, that Litany is active and its effects apply to all Adeptus Astartes Infantry and Adeptus Astartes Mounted units from your army.
Chorus of Relentless Hate
Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in this unit and add 1 to Advance rolls made for it.
Rite of Perfervid Wrath
Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit.
CHANT OF DEATHLESS DEVOTION
Models in this unit have a 5+ invulnerable save against ranged attacks.
RESTRICTIONS
Your army can include Black Templars units, but it cannot include ADEPTUS ASTARTES units drawn from any other Chapter.
Enhancements (4)
10 pts Benediction of Fury
Borne through a dozen bloody and hard-fought crusades, this crozius arcanum’s unique empathokinetic
Chaplain model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
25 pts Pyrebrand
Within this relic burns a seemingly eternal flame, believed to have first been lit by Sigismund hims
Black Templars model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Stealth ability.
30 pts Sacred Rage
So all-consuming is this warrior’s hatred of the foe, so infectious his rage at their continued exis
ADEPTUS ASTARTES model only. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, until the end of the phase, models in the bearer’s unit have the Fights First ability.
15 pts Taramond’s Censer
Though the Black Templars are acclimatised to the acrid chemical incense burned within this iron thu
Black Templars model only. At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from the result.
Stratagems (6)
1 CP
ARMOUR OF CONTEMPT
Either player’s turn - Shooting or Fight phase
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, each time an attack targets your unit, worsen the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
1 CP
BRUTE FERVOUR
Either player’s turn - Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll; the Wound roll.
1 CP
CASTIGATE THE DEMAGOGUES
Either player’s turn - Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
1 CP
FUELLED BY FAITH
Either player’s turn - Any phase
WHEN: Any phase, just after a mortal wound is allocated to an ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army.
TARGET: That ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Feel No Pain 5+ ability against mortal wounds.
1 CP
RELENTLESS MOMENTUM
Either player’s turn - Fight phase
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One ADEPTUS ASTARTES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase and is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, when determining which models in your unit are eligible to fight, any models in it that are within 3" of one or more enemy models are eligible to fight. When resolving those attacks, such models can target one of those enemy units that is within 3" of them and within Engagement Range of their unit.
1 CP
VOICE OF DEVOTION
Your turn - Command phase
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One Adeptus Astartes Infantry or Adeptus Astartes Mounted unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select the Chorus of Relentless Hate, Rite of Perfervid Wrath or Chant of Deathless Devotion Litany. Until the end of the battle round, that Litany is active for your unit instead of any other Litany that is active for your army.