Black Templar

The Black Templars have their origins in the first company of the Great Crusade-Era Imperial Fists, a group originally known as the Templar Brethren. They wore all-black armor and had black crosses on their right pauldron and shields, and were sworn to protect the Temple of Oaths (OK, the reality is that Forge World wanted to justify including Black Templars into Horus Heresy. They're really more Templar than Imperial Fist at this point already). Their Commander and First Captain of the Imperial Fists, Sigismund, started the tradition of the Emperor's Champion, in which a Templar would challenge the enemy's champions to single combat. After the Heresy had ended and Roboute Guilliman called for the Second Founding, Sigmisund took his Templar Brethren to found the Black Templars.

Righteous Zeal

You can re-roll failed charge rolls for BLACK TEMPLARS units with this tactic.

Character traits of Black Templars

Oathkeeper - Warlord can do 6" Heroic Interventions. UGH. At least our characters are already awesome on their own, and don't need to be the Warlord.

Chapter Relics

The Armour Indomitus- The wearer of the Armour Indomitus has a Save characteristic of 2+. In addition, once per battle, before making one of the wearer's saving throws, you can choose to activate the armour's force field. When you do so, the Armour Indomitus confers a 3+ invulverable save for the remainder of the turn.

The Crusader's Helm- The wearer of the Crusader's Helm increases the range of any aura abilities on its datasheet by 3".

The Primarch's Wrath- Models with a boltgun or master-crafted boltgun only. The Primarch's Wrath replaces the bearer's boltgun or master-crafted boltgun.

Strategems available to Black Templars

Uphold the Honour of the Emperor (1CP): At the start of the Fight phase, pick a SWORD BRETHREN unit. Roll a D6 each time one of the models in that unit loses a wound, on a 5+ that model does not lose that wound.Melee only, not only does it protect the unit from damage, but it also allows Company Vets to tank a wound that the Captain already tried to save, suffer a mortal wound and then save it.

Suffer Not the Unclean to Live (2CP): At the start of the Fight phase, pick a SWORD BRETHREN unit. All models in the unit get an extra attack and may reroll failed wound rolls. And power fists just got a discount.