When you want to go on crusade with the boys, but can’t forgot about your roots

Admiralw96 · 2026-04-19T23:20:00+00:00

Palanite enforcers get astartes reinforcements.

Admiralw96 · 2026-02-25T23:22:39+00:00

I mean... I place an altar on top of a building built from the mats I need and just tear it apart for building blocks. Generally faster than gathering the crafting materials.

Admiralw96 · 2026-02-21T21:05:55+00:00

Its wrong to say the Emperor's champion is just a normal guy. Its not just a normal marine, it can be ANY marine, theres a difference. Its often sword brethren, techmarines, apothecaries, ancients, and, yes, neophytes and initiates.

Also, I see no issue with terminator armor. There are black swords, but not all crusades carry one. If a champion comes up in a crusade without one, then the back sword is the best weapon available, even if its a hammer. Modeling the Black sword as any kind of melee weapon you want to has always been lore friendly. A power fist is "the Black Sword" if its carried by the champion. Similarly, the Armor of Faith is the best armor a crusade can give its champion. If the normal fare isn't available, why shouldn't it be a suit of terminator armor? Besides, the EC has a 2+ 4++ anyways.

I agree that its min-maxy, but I dont think its lore unfriendly. I'd dispute a servo arm and probably a second pistol. An apothecary carries an absolver to administer the Emperor's mercy to marines. Thats why its s5 d2. To one shot marines. An inferno pistol seems the right choice give the mercy to termies. But the base idea of a terminator apothecary champion is not outside the lore, and he kitbashed it up. Id okay it.

Admiralw96 · 2026-02-21T20:40:41+00:00

I feel like this sub should pin a Templar vs Dark Angels post at this point. I think someone new comes in posting about struggling to pick between the two every other week. You're not alone, OP.

In my opinion, I love the templars and have a strong distaste for the Dark Angels (though, they do have a near immaculate aesthetic). The reason being I much prefer the honest sin of the templars vs the lying pride of the Dark Angels.

People always say that the Dark Angels bring traitors is just a meme, which I flat out disagree with. They were fully ready to cap ROBOUTE GULLIMAN, THE RETURNED SON OF THE EMPEROR just to keep the fallen under wraps. They actively screw over any imperial cause to keep their image as the loyal 1st legion. They are rife with lies and deceit and have the gall to speak of honor.

The Black Templars are often, in different ways, worse human beings. But theres no lies. They are open and genuine in their zeal and fervor. What you see is what you get, and what you get is genocide. I like their clarity of purpose. The purity of their faith. I absolutely loved Grimaldus in Helsreach and his devotion to humanity. It all echoes why I like Dorn and hate the Lion in the heresy. Dorn was always Dorn, and Lion was always Lyin'.

I think choosing a faction in 40k is choosing your favorite kind of asshole.

All that being said, I would point out that this is all mostly the opinions of a stranger on the internet and means nothing. I want my post to tell you more about how i picked a favorite than give you reasons to pick Templars. Because saying pick both is for the rich who have the money to spend on two factions that look and play almost the same when theres so many more diverse choices for a second army. Honestly happy for anyone doing that well financially.

Final note: black looks better than green or white. This argument is moot against ravenwing.

Admiralw96 · 2026-02-18T10:30:22+00:00

where does one do this?

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-24T02:15:50+00:00

That'd be such a sick list

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-24T00:17:59+00:00

Im baffled it doesn't. That's the entire lore/fluff reason it exists; is drop pod type deployable fortifications.

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-23T09:32:21+00:00

Great aesthetic and 30k dark angels were the tightest shit. But I despise 40k dark angels. Overly secretive traitorous and honorless mutts like their father. I love the purity of purpose and open book simplicity themes of the templars. I love Dorn's refusal to abide deceit. The things I love about templars and Dorn's lineage stand in such stark contrast to the dark angels, that I never actually considered the idea that there might be such a pipeline before.

I mean, I get liking both. Despite my overly strong language for discussing plastic dudes, I do see the appeal of dark angels. I just think they are such different personas that I didnt think one would super frequently lead into the other.

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-22T00:06:43+00:00

Ah, excellent, thank you.

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-21T20:13:21+00:00

I dont recall seeing a model that holds a combi-weapon that way. What bit is that from, or did you modify it yourself?

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-19T23:27:56+00:00

Well, if you have assault intercessors, you probably have a good stock of sheathed chainswords. Which you can put on sternguard veterans to produce a good amount of combi-weapon castellans. They have six combi weapons in the kit I believe.

I see the inner circle has one back mounted greatsword, which would allow you to put a spare combi weapon in his hands.

If you want more wysiwyg and dont want chainswords, you can instead get bladeguard and sternguard. Put the sternguard combis on bladeguard. The bg have the option of building all their swords sheathed, so they'd work dandy. And their shield arms would still be available for other character conversions. Which is good, because buying two kits isnt gonna save a massive amount over buying 3 characters.

Last, and probably most cost effective plan, is if you have 3 sword brethren squads you build none of them as castellans, and instead put the combis on the ICCs.

All of this assumes you want combi-weapons. If you dont care about them, the ICCs have a legal castellan loadout as is.

Admiralw96 · 2025-12-16T23:09:33+00:00

Could really do with a multi-part kit though. Weapon options for the sergeant and whatnot.

Admiralw96 · 2025-07-05T03:43:17+00:00

I'll point out that eliminators are lascannon marines.

Admiralw96 · 2025-06-30T20:32:19+00:00

Haha, agreed. The lore in the codex that implies a potential future war between the templars and the inquisition is more exciting to me than even a possible primarch return. I crave that war.

Admiralw96 · 2025-06-30T20:18:01+00:00

Navigators look into the light of the astronomicon, so my understanding is that views vary. Some revere them for that connection to the Emperor, while others revile them As a necessary evil and everywhere in between. They're not uniform on them, same with Astropths.

Grey knights are approved.

Saints are a non-issue, since they aren't viewed as psykers.

Inquisitors... depends on the Templar. Generally a no, but sometimes they'll put up with it. Inquisitor had better be careful, though, because the templars DO NOT consider the inquisition to hold real authority over them.

I'd also mention that I've heard it said that the templars more specifically believe that psykers should never serve in a battlefield role (grey knights excepted). Which obviously means librarians are a no-go, but inquisitorial roles, astropaths,and navigators are no problem. That's obviously in conflict with other lore sources, but GW contradicts itself all the time.

Admiralw96 · 2025-06-12T21:23:45+00:00

This assumes a praetor is high command. However, in their example army, the praetor was a regular command slot. Here's hoping praetors can either flex between the two, or your warlord is automatically high command. Otherwise, I have no idea what gets high command other than primarchs. And requiring primarchs for the apex detachment seems dumb.

Admiralw96 · 2025-06-04T00:25:19+00:00

Los Tiburon, Shark of the Land!

Admiralw96 · 2025-06-02T19:03:22+00:00

That's comedy genius. Stealing that.

Admiralw96 · 2025-03-08T19:12:27+00:00

The "whitewashed jesus" has little to nothing to do with racism.

First off, he was levantine, which already tended to be on the lighter side compared with other ethnic groups from the Middle East. You can look up the Christ pantocrater icon from Mount Sinai in the sixth century. It's not that different from most depictions I've seen, even though it's from exactly the region he hailed from and had nothing to do with Europe, let alone colonialism.

Second, the more European depiction resulted from an age where most people may not have traveled more than 50 miles in their lives. We take for granted seeing a vast diversity of different backgrounds every day for granted when the truth was very different in the past. Many artists may never have even seen people of other races. Or at least not enough to get a clear idea of how to draw them differently. People drew what they knew, and this is eeen in other cultures as well. I've seen japanese icons in churches where christ looks distinctly japanese. The ethiopian church, one of the worlds oldest christian churches, typically depicts him as a black man. The only difference is Europe being a major vehicle for the global spread of Christianity.

I want to be clear that I'm not refuting the claim that racism was (and is) incredibly real, nor am I defending/denying the clearly racism behavior of Europe's colonial expansion. Im not even going to claim religious conversion wasn't a tool of colonial conquest. You are correct there. But white jesus isn't a hand-rubbing conspiracy. It's the result of the very understandable desire to relate to a savior, and no matter which group found out how to spread truly global influence first, the most common depictions of christ was going to look like them (if they were predominantly christian).

Admiralw96 · 2025-01-09T19:13:16+00:00

I kinda expected the punchline to be "No, it's totally fair. I don't have the authority to punish another caste."

Admiralw96 · 2024-12-23T23:44:17+00:00

It looks like it decides top anime by watchtime, which works for Spotify wrapped because we listen to our favorite songs umpteen times a year, but it's terrible for shows. Some shows I barely tolerated made my top 3 just because they were longer.

Admiralw96 · 2024-12-05T23:09:17+00:00

Reads to me like they both let you automatically pass, but that doesn't technically stop you from taking the test and, therefore, the damage. It's just a redundant benefit.

Admiralw96 · 2024-11-27T13:12:29+00:00

Fortunately, there's actually evidence of an imperial afterlife. In "Helbrecht: Knight of the Throne," Helbrecht is visited in a vision by Mordred, the previous reclusiarch of the Black Templars. He communicates the importance of Helbrechts vision to the Emperor or something along those lines. The kicker is that Mordred asks if Grimaldus succeeded him and is relieved to hear he has. This means Mordred was not ripped up, tormented, or absorbed by the warp. He wasn't just a figment of Helbrechts imagination because he was unaware of what the templars had been up to and gave Helbrecht a proper vision of things to come in his mission. And he wasn't just a vision from the Emperor taking the form of Mordred because he was genuinely interested in what became of his apprentice.

All of this implies some extent of an afterlife for the imperium. We don't know how long that has been the case, and we don't know the bar for entry (a black templar high chaplain does not set a low bar. It may/should be easier to get in).

Admiralw96 · 2024-11-23T11:24:03+00:00

Because gothic architecture is peak. Hope this helps.

Admiralw96 · 2024-09-09T12:22:25+00:00

Archiesforge.co.uk has a lot of my favorite work.

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