Black Templars are the warhammer 40k

[@samuelclements5920]

My favourite thing about Black Templars is that they get it. There is no end to the crusade, there is no dream of peace, there is no hope for the future. Even during the Great Crusade Sigismund realised it would never end. There is no utopia at the end of the road. They’ve learned to love the journey without going full nihilist and living for nothing. They are the true poster boys because there is only war.

[@taliawtf6944]

Fun fact about the word utopia, in it's greek roots it literally means "no where" which is exactly where utopia is. No where. So to me that makes the Black Templars one of the more reasonable chapters of Space Marines as they have rightfully reasoned out their purpose as well as course of action.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

"You have beaten me, Sigismind. You truly are the Warhammer 40k." - Khârn the Betrayer during the Siege of Terra, M31 colorized.

[@5555petros]

Coped, seethed and malded so hard he died and came back to life to regain his WH40K crown.

[@ct7567CaptRex]

It was my most favorite bit from the siege of Terra when Kharn was screeching at Sigismund to say something, anything, to be alive, and all he got was silent, mechanical hatred and Annihilation. Excerpt: "He never said a word. Never. Throughout it all, the Black Sword didn't say a thing. The monster. The ghost. The mere shell. What could be worse than this? What death could be as profound as this? What disappointment, what despair, could ever be greater? Khârn raged at it. He howled in fury, coming at him again and again, shrugging off the wounds. He wanted the old one back. The one with some fire in his veins. He wanted some spirit. Just a flicker of something - anything - other than this flint-edged, iron-deep hardness. They had laughed together, the two of them. They had fought in the roaring pits, and had sliced slabs out of one another, and at the end they had always slumped down in the straw and the blood and laughed. Even the Nails had not taken that away, for in combat the Nails had still always shown the truth of things. 'Be… angry!' he bellowed, thundering in close. 'Be… alive!' Because you could only kill the things that lived. You couldn't kill a ghost, only swipe your axe straight through it. There was nothing here, just frustration, just the madness of going up against a wall, again and again. The Nails spiked at him. He fought harder. He fought faster. His muscles ripped apart, and were instantly reknitted. His blood vessels burst, and were restored. He felt heat surge through his body, hotter and whiter than any heat he had ever endured. The Black Sword resisted it all, silently, implacably, infuriatingly. It was like fighting the end of the universe. Nothing could shake the faith before him. It was blind to everything but itself, as selfish as a jewel-thief in a hoard." Rest of the scene can be found on reddit. Absolutely bone chilling

[@123mrdoom]

So Khârn the Bloody then, he got the betrayer moniker post heresy.

[@blacktemplar1139]

Right before Dorn comes out of nowhere and bitch slaps him

[@travisjohnson622]

I thought that what the emperor said to Horrace Hershey?

[@grimreminder5038]

"You're only allowed ONE Battalion!" Black Templars: BY THE GRACE AND THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD *Ripping apart a Codex in their hands* FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY, KISS OUR ONYX AAAAAAAAASSES

[@joriankell1983]

*Chapter

[@Man_Emperor_of_Mankind]

*thousand

[@robingraves9517]

Ever get the feeling that Angry Marines might have been Black Templars once?

[@grimreminder5038]

@@robingraves9517 Successor Chapter. Split off because they even managed to get the Templars to think they're too angry. And that's saying something

[@grimreminder5038]

@@joriankell1983 Successor Chapter* if you wanna be technical

[@mtpender69]

"I have dug my grave in this place, I will either triumph or I will die. No pity, no remorse, NO FEAR!" -Reclusiarch Grimaldus

[@pubefaceIV]

“They call me the Hero of Helsreach, as if their were only one.”

[@YakubTheFather]

This is what I yell in the Taco Bell bathroom

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

​@YakubTheFather Papa Yakub! Thank you for creating us Caucasoid devils! Too bad Moses blew up a bunch of us with dynamite. I don't wanna pay taxes so I'm going to turn into a Gorilla.

[@Blacktemplar-6996]

AVE IMPERATOR!!!!!!

[@akumaking1]

“I’m surprised they don’t have the word ‘fist’ in their name.” “That’s because they are absolute lunatics.”

[@JayPlusForerunner]

PURRRGING WIIIIIITH MY KIIIIINNNN

[@2SSSR2]

Sigismund is also known for the best foreshadowing quote in the franchise: "We will spend our lives fighting to secure this Imperium, and then I fear we will spend the rest of our days fighting to keep it intact... In the far future, there will be only war."

[@jamesf3871]

I like to think that the Black Templars have way, WAY more than 6,000 marines. That they basically have the numbers of a space marine legion. But they are so loyal (and so spread out across the galaxy) that not many are really too worried about that. And that inquisitors who ARE worried about that, and start trying to dig up the Black Templars’ actual numbers, tend to meet with unfortunate accidents.

[@42Nightsyesterday]

I really like that idea. I’ve never really liked the 40k space marine numbers especially the 1000 marines is absurdly small for planetary operations. That’s one thing that drew me to the templars and I agree I like to imagine their numbers are huge

[@danielbob2628]

Well, from what I hear, the second part is already true, even about the 6,000.

[@KillerOrca]

And those that don't simply cant keep up with the Eternal Crusade the Templars are on. By the time they arrive in a system that the Templars were reported to be in, they've already left...and its been a decade since they did. Space is big, and Warp travel, while still FTL, is not instant.

[@chosenrubric7308]

​@@42NightsyesterdayI personally just x10 all numbers in 40k. Guardsmen included, because GW authors tend to massively underscale guardsmen too.

[@Shaso-xv3tw]

@@42NightsyesterdayI mean, I think it’s a reasonable number of marines for a planet if we’re being honest, since marines are literally 9 foot tall men in armor that can deflect tank shells with immense training, like scout marines have enough training to put real world special forces to shame and marines usually spend a few decades in the scout company before even becoming a marine. Lore wise these guys are walking nuclear bombs capable of taking on squads of well trained guardsmen in their own, let alone as a unit. Tabletop doesn’t really reflect just how absurd space marines are with their size, power armor, genetic modifications, and usually decades if not centuries of experience in field…

[@Bread-nx9fo]

Dark Angels and Black Templars are literally knights in space, they're just awesome.

[@bcw1313]

That’s the funny thing, not even close. The Salamanders & Ultramarines are MUCH closer to how actual Crusade era holy knight orders acted. BT & DA are the fetishstically violent parodies of the worst of the worst men in history. Deadass serious, BTs are conquistadors

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

Except one is obviously completely unhinged

[@stefanwust3705]

@@Joseph-mw2rl oh joseph. that is a great comment. now we are left to think to urselfs which one is more unhinged xD

[@pimposaurus2968]

Sigismund traumatized kharne so much during their duel that kharne ironically calls sigismund the real monster tight before sigismund runs a sword through him.

[@boggeddown778]

Unsurprising that a creature of darkness would be so terrified by such magnificent blinding faith.

[@TheGrimTemplar]

Don't forget about the Black Templar who was assigned to be the bodyguard of a historian and it actually a pretty chill dude.

[@ralocl]

You got me, who is he?

[@edwardheppenstall8690]

Brother Sergeant Lucernne, Sword Brother of the Black Templars and all round top fucking guy

[@ralocl]

Much appreciated, Edward 🙏

[@TheGrimTemplar]

@@edwardheppenstall8690 you saved me so much searching lol

[@andreweppling2333]

Actually one of the best space marine characters! His relationship with the scholar was so fun, honestly I like that black Templars really can be chill with any honorable imperial citizen who has proven themselves. It’s just all the cowards (most of the galaxy) that are the problem 😂

[@Ark_3311]

They're indeed a space marine chapter.

[@PandorasFolly]

One of the space marine chapters of all time

[@ChillAssTurtle]

A true chapter of marine spaces

[@imquantum8009]

Jokes aside, they're easily the most 40k chapter.

[@voidstrider801]

The Black Templars are a chapter in name only, they are more like whole ass legion who wipes their ass with the codex.

[@TGSSMC]

​@@imquantum8009the 40kiest chapter of them all

[@dominicscreativefilms]

To me, the Black Templars are the REAL poster boys of the imperium and 40k as a whole because they just represent those two so perfect. A chapter of religious zealots who abandon reason and know only war. Who cursed the daemon, the mutant, and the heretic. Who stare down some of the most horrific and destructive races and not only refuse to retreat but say, “Please may I have some more.” These guys represent everything I love about 40k. Not to mention their aesthetic and color scheme is just top tier badass.

[@paintedtabletop]

This. The Black Templars are the imperium distilled.

[@Zagskrag]

If I had to describe 40k to someone, and I was only allowed to show them one faction, I'd pick the Black Templars any day. Nothing else embodies the spirit of the setting as perfectly as these guys.

[@Bossanova.]

True, Black Templars are the face of Man, the heartbeat of Imperial contempt for all that is unholy: "In the somber vastness of the cosmos, there lies a storm cloaked in ceramite and piety, a tempest wrought by the God-Emperor's indomitable will - they are the Black Templars. These knights of vengeance are a refraction of His celestial might. They are His sword and His shield, the physical testament to His boundless vigil, emblazoned with the sigils of eternity, bearing weapons consecrated with the essence of sanctity itself. Where their boots tread, they leave the imprint of His undying resolve, etching His decree upon the fractured face of the universe. Each Black Templar stands as an obelisk, etched with the saga of a million martyred souls, a litany of vengeance written upon their hearts. They are monuments to human might, their gene-forged forms the pinnacle of Terran artifice. With each thunderous heartbeat, they pledge relentless crusade to purge the unholy trinity of alien, heretic, and mutant from the realm of Man. Their drop pods descent heralds the onset of judgment, meteoric avatars of retribution punching through atmospheres like the fiery fists of the God-Emperor. When they unfurl their glory upon a blighted land, even the air quivers with the intensity of their zeal. The ground quakes beneath their armored tread, and from their throats, a battle-cry roils forth to challenge the very stars: a roar that sears through heresy like a blade forged in the fires of their righteous fury. They are the sentinels at the edge of night, the torchbearers in the eternal dark, pushing back against the abyss with the luminescence of their faith. As they raise their bolters, each shot is a benediction, a sacred utterance that banishes the shadows with its sanctified report. The chainswords they wield are hymnals, each tooth inscribed with oaths of eradication, singing choruses of devastation as they rend flesh and bone. To witness them in battle is to observe a symphony of carnage conducted by the maestro of holy vengeance. Their charge is a majestic tide, a relentless smiting force destined to reclaim the darkness and baptize it in fire, to cast light upon the heresy of existence without the God-Emperor’s grace. In the presence of the Black Templars, the alien's arrogance crumbles to terror, the mutant suffocates on shadows of despair and the heretic's betrayal is repaid tenfold. Their retribution is as inevitable as the decay of time and as relentless as the turning of the heavens. For they are the God-Emperor’s fury given form, His contempt for the xeno, the heretic, and the mutant made manifest. They are the edge of humanity's sword and the shield against the encroaching night. Through the Black Templars’ veins courses the ichor of vindication, their spirits alight with the fire of a thousand suns, each one a beacon of devastation to the God-Emperor's foes. The oaths that gird them bind them to a crusade without end, an odyssey of salvation across the star-strewn sea of eternity. By the light of the Astronomican, they bear witness to the God-Emperor's majesty, a testament to His undying sovereignty over the scattered realms of Man. The Black Templars, with every swing of their swords and every prayer upon their lips, do not simply fight battles; they etch the saga of humanity’s indomitable spirit into the flesh of the galaxy itself. They are the avatars of celestial retribution, the holy aegis of humanity, eternally vigilant, forever burning bright in the darkness, until the stars themselves fade to dust at time’s end." Their piety is a sight to behold.

[@JasonLLewis01]

I agree. My introduction to warhammer was 2 chapters. The black templars thanks to flashgitz. And dark angels thanks to deathwing. And i guarantee you most people outside 40k recognize the black templars almost as easily as ultramarines or blood ravens. And i think thats a credit to all 3 chapters prevelance in the whole setting in the areas they operate in. The black templars are my favorite sons of dorn. (Valrak forgive me)

[@angrybeesound772]

I picked up BT as my first army when someone described them as 'weaponized autism' I knew about the lore and said, yeah, that one is for me.

[@TriptuneRadio]

Their hyperfixation alternates between prayer and murder

[@redhotdanger2394]

As an autistic person, I can confirm this lol.

[@radokost]

Just a small quote: "You will die as your weakling father died. Soulless. Honourless. Weeping. Ashamed." If you know, you know.

[@tobyjohn4682]

Abandon shit himself.

[@myth1462]

Legendary

[@bvdemier1]

"I will torture his body, so that his soul learns to be humble." -Average Black Templar

[@Fifthmiracle]

Sounds more like a Dark Angel Interrogator Chaplain to me...but it stilll works.

[@SWProductions100]

​@@Fifthmiracle They might be referring to an Edwin von Carstein video "When Space Marines meet Chaos Space Marines in Battle." It uses the comedy duo Key and Peele to show a Chaos Space Marine being utterly unnerved by a Black Templars fanaticism.

[@MansMan42069]

​@@SWProductions100 "Heretic... is the student. And I... am the Emperor's instrument."

[@jjwnew24]

“I will die on this world” …..sends chills every time.

[@dontgetmarried]

Probably the only chapter that can legit have 40,000 hammers being wielded at once

[@PandorasFolly]

Yeara ago before i moved There was a guy in our local gaming scene who had a thematic BT army. All power weapons, flamers, and meltas. When the rules were in his favor it was a buzz saw of a Close combat army.

[@LifeofSquidMann]

I always found it funny how much the Black Templars stand in contrast to my other favorite Marine chapter, the Blood Ravens While one is known for it's high number of Librarians, the other allows none. While one is relatively Codex-standard, the other is anything but. And while one suffered a litany of traitors, the other is wholly loyal to the Throne until the end.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

Blood Ravens are too busy stealing anything that isn't nailed to the floor lol

[@KillerOrca]

@@Bread-nx9fo They stole armor from the Templars at least once.

[@mrpizzacat8273]

my two favorite chapters are the Lamentors and the Black Templars...

[@LifeofSquidMann]

@@mrpizzacat8273 Respect.

[@WeOnlyEatSoup]

Two best chapters indeed.

[@dekuvisuals9847]

"Suffer not the Alien, the Mutant, the Heretic" yeah that pretty much sums up the Black Templars.

[@cid2516]

I really enjoyed it when Sigismond and Garro sat and talked about their shared faith in the big e

[@jmd9402]

You might be the first fast pace lore channel I've seen that actually mentioned the emperors chapion when talking about the black templars

[@SRTifiable]

**Grunts in the closest approximation of what passes for glee in the Black Templar**

[@42Nightsyesterday]

I just love the energy of being in an empire that is under siege on all sides and constantly being invaded and being like “nah, let’s go get THEM”. They really embody the whole “I’m not stuck in here with you, you’re stuck in here with me.” Sentiment. A lot of space marine chapters are defensive, called in as a Hail Mary when shit really hits the fan. Black templars are one of the few chapters that actively are on the offensive and probably make the best use of their skills and equipment because of it. I mean just the fact that all their law breaking and heresy is tolerated because of their results and sheer badassery says a lot

[@michaelgoldsmith3834]

Very true, given that the imperium is facing such threat rather than the great crusade of the emperor, it makes sense for chapters to have higher numbers than the codex 1000, clearly lots of chapters on the brink of destruction many times over as well.

[@billy2141]

careful who you are calling a heretic

[@vardiganxpl1698]

Honestly I respect them more alot compared to their contemporaries. Because they are one of the few who are ACTIVE. They don't just sit around, looking all fancy, then be forced to defend because they neglected. No. The Black Templars would stop that before any sort of chance of such a scenario happens. If anything, they still embody the Imperial Fist's main strategy of defence And you know what they say that sometimes. Offence is the greatest Defence

[@kriegsmanalpharius]

Grimaldus always hits me right in the feels

[@MortiefiedBear]

Sigismund becoming the Emperor's Champion was the first sign of the transition from the 30K imperium to the 40K imperium. Which is why I like the Black Templars.

[@Dogmelter42]

Black Templars. The coolest thing the Imperial Fists ever made, and the one thing Imperial Fists fans seem to hate a lot, in my experience. These guys are one of my favorites.

[@mrpizzacat8273]

I didn't know some imperial fist fans hated them Is there a reason?

[@Dogmelter42]

@@mrpizzacat8273 I think it's probably that they're not as stoic or focused on fortification tactics.

[@ArmielFortis]

​@@Dogmelter42probably because the Black Templats don't like the Last Protocol and its shown that they rather stay as Black Templars than reunite into a Legion again (again don't believe what i just wrote this 100% because i dont remember where i read this)

[@spugggaldon361]

I mean, are they really Imperial Fists? Or might they be 2nd or 11th legion remnants that the Imperial Fists absorbed who all stuck together and then bailed into the Black Templars the first chance they got? Asking for a friend. Don't tell the inquisition

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

@@spugggaldon361 Could also be 12th legion loyalists.

[@jestinjeffries9430]

You will love the Black Templars Dreadnaught Toron, he has to be my favorite Dreadnaught and is a great example of a Black Templar. He is featured in the new Dawn of Fire Novel

[@Fifthmiracle]

BT have so many awesome Dreadnoughts in the lore. Brother Adelard from "The Glorious Tomb" and Tankred from "Damnation Crusade" come to mind immediately, but here are several others.

[@5555petros]

BT are the coolest sons of Dorn because they are the least like him. Literally have taken all the cool flavors and vibes from the rest of the IF successor chapters.

[@Arokel]

Ah, but they are very much like him. They are the anger and wrath Dorn had under the surface and rarely let out.

[@bennetttan8535]

Least? A scouring Dorn is peak BT energy

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

Once I have time and money, I will be painting Black Templars (and also some Sisters of Battle because the æsthetics are kinda my thing) I've had a Black Templars artwork as my phone wallpaper for years now

[@KillerOrca]

Canonically, Templars and Sisters fight together on the field more often than not. If the Eclessiarcy MUST call upon Space Marines, they prefer to use the Templars for obvious reasons.

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

@@KillerOrca Good, because for GW to miss out on that kind of synergy would be an actual atrocity.

[@Ali-c1s5i]

I think sisters kinda despise templars because they view astartes as mutants, they're cool with custodes though@@KillerOrca

[@KillerOrca]

@@Ali-c1s5i They tollerate the Templars more than most because their faith is equal to the Sisters. But they still dont see them as human.

[@mikemarino3567]

Legend has it that those who look into the ledgers and resources sent to the entirety of the chapter, and figure out how many marines they contain, tend to disappear. So it is canon that the Black Templars do not pay their taxes.

[@42Nightsyesterday]

Pretty sure that’s the opposite of taxes

[@olympusgolemoflight7198]

What I love the most about the Black Templars is not that they ignore the Codex to have more marines, it's that they used a loophole in the Codex saying a crusading chapter can exceed the normal chapter numbers.

[@odinthomas2634]

Word bearers watching the Black templar's get all the love

[@Warmhammer]

Word bearers are literally just worse black Templars, and even worse they fell to chaos

[@odinthomas2634]

@@Warmhammer the inverse is true

[@Warmhammer]

@@odinthomas2634 what about the word bearers is better than the templars

[@shigenobuyoshida8720]

because they got s@#t done

[@anothershyguy]

I know you problably do the space sharks next, but it would be cool if you instead went through the different night lords warbands in the galaxy from the skinblades, the raptorous flayhost, the darkstrike and the warband of krieg acerbus.

[@EdHandal]

THE BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYS IN BLACK FINALLY

[@MrHARDtaHANDLE1]

Mr. Bones finally drops the black templar video me: screaming no pity, no remorse, no fear! for 9 minutes and 36 seconds

[@Mister42Unhinged]

Love the Black Templars. Read Sigismund the Eternal Crusader if you haven't already. Great book also a great look into the mind if the FIRST Emperors Champion. When Abaddon finally killed Sigismund, he was so respected that they sent his body back to the imperium in full honor.

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

You say "zeal", I say "weaponized autism".

[@Man_Emperor_of_Mankind]

"I have dug my grave in this place, and I will either triumph or I will die!"

[@thomashogan9896]

8:13 With the "skull of a random tech priest" now part of said chaplains adornment

[@exponenttie9707]

in the anthology book "Crusaders of Dorn" by Guy Haley, there's a scene in one of the short stories where a black templar has his bolter to the face of a mother and her two children and she begs him to spare them due to their faith being an unsanctioned deviation of the Imperial Cult, and the Templar lets them go, he tells them if they stray again he'll kill them but he still lets them go, and you get his internal monologue aswell, its actually pretty cool reading the thoughts of marines and how he justifies letting the mother and her kids go

[@gnarl12]

Interesting

[@zoltankohazi-kis2660]

Remember when you asked what makes someone like the word bearers, well they are the black templars of chaos.

[@zsoltgyuricza6961]

I love that when anyone starts to talk about the black templars, the attitude of: Ok its CRUSADING TIME! just takes over.

[@Xiiki]

“What? Why can’t we have more than a thousand members!” _”I’m too scared to tell them not to.”_

[@Baconlazer]

I love that you used the theme music from the movie 300 for your intro video as it reminds me of the First Black Crusade and the Black Templars battle that pushed back the Black Legion, giving time for the Imperial forces to prepare Cadia and surrounding planets for the Black Legion's assault.

[@deltaturnip9247]

The opening of this video goes unbelivable hard

[@baronvonfedora1524]

PURGING WITH MY KIN

[@jjronzoni2640]

New to 40k, pretty sure you just helped me find my first faction

[@VamproxMyriad]

The way you started this video after the same opening every video in your meet the legions playlist socked me in the giggles

[@albertobenvenuto9314]

Now. I have the utmost respect for Gulliman. Trying to make sense of this galactic mess is something that deserves respect. But. At the end of the day, it's about going to the place and killing the bad guys. You don't need a damn manual.

[@bcw1313]

Yeah…Black Templars is where I go from laughing at the setting to getting a lump in my throat and a dread in my stomach

[@Rewwgh]

I didn't pay much mind to them before checking out Helsreach recently. Grimaldus is a very nice character.

[@StFelixofAstora]

I am in love with Balck Templars since I first discovered 40k. That OG John Blanche art is what made me love 40k so much and since then Templars are my main army. The aesthetic is just peak 40k

[@rylievalentine7109]

"did you find your friend?" grimaldus with the steel chair to my emotions

[@neilwickman]

BT are awesome. You need these tentpole groups to define aspects of the setting. For the Salamanders to mean something you need the insane Doomguy factions too.

[@Theideaspectrum]

"To the darkness I bring fire. To the ignorant I bring faith. Those who welcome these gifts may live, but I will visit naught but death and eternal damnation on those who refuse them.” -Merek Grimaldus High Chaplain of the Black Templars.

[@colbypennington4641]

As a 40k noob who just bought his first squads to get my feet wet I was drawn to the Templars look and then their lore. Thanks for the vid!

[@mrpizzacat8273]

I feel like the Black Templars are the most 40k thing in 40k, other chapters and groups have a sense of GW rounding off the edges as years go on with some sense of morality for the average pallet, it’s easy to mistake members of most other chapters/legions for ok/tolerable to even good people. The Black Templars are Xenophobic Genocidal zealots and there is not an ounce of sugar coating there is no hiding it. And that’s why I love them they embody everything horrible about the imperium so perfectly.

[@LifeofSquidMann]

My thoughts exactly.

[@glaz3811]

Brother Bones, Shall we Purge the Foul Xeno?

[@soul1d]

Gotta love that drip, working on a Templar army now

[@KayyVEVO]

The fact that use so much Omori music in your videos, makes me love you all that much more.

[@Channel-23s]

Gotta say they are one of the better chapters Believing Big E is a God and Psykers are a no go/wrong and also having a Badass design and way of battle melee experts and the Emperors Champion gotta say these guys are badass on another level

[@przemysawseredyszyn1405]

Yeah about that. Emperor is a uber powerfull psyker, perhaps the most powerfull in the galaxy, certainly the most powerfull human one . Also how do they function? All the travel and communications technology in the Imperium is based on psykers (Navigators and Astropaths).

[@Fifthmiracle]

@@przemysawseredyszyn1405 But that's part of what makes them so cool, it the intolerance and blatant hypocrisy.

[@MarkArandjus]

Space Marine: "I have contracted ligma." Maleovalnt: "What, brother, is ligma?" Space Marine: * _takes deep breath..._ *

[@rellek4053]

Black Templars are very compassionate towards civilians. So compassionate they’ve vowed to kill every single thing that could ever possibly harm them. They can patch up their own booboos templars are too busy working on preventative protection.

[@L0wKii]

Arthur? I jist want you to know you're my favorite lore channel! ❤❤❤

[@ayyitsrith]

"if you could condense every single popoff in fighting game history then add religious fervor to it, that is the Black Templars" mfw witnessing Emperor's Champion Godfrey perform a masterful series of parries against a champion of Slaanesh the likes of which haven't been seen since brother Daigo had donned the mantle of Emperor's Champion

[@MIDencezzz]

Man, i always love your videos, i hope you soon make a Minotaurs one

[@TheRiceHill]

Hands down they are *the* best Chapter. They aren't the heroes that the average imperial citizen would want to protect them (like the Salamanders) but they are the heroes the Imperium needs

[@42Nightsyesterday]

Yeah they are probably the chapter that arguably gets the most results and makes the most of the resources they have at their disposal

[@cousinzeke4888]

​@@42NightsyesterdayThat's the Marines Malevolent.

[@42Nightsyesterday]

@@cousinzeke4888 marines malevolent probably cause more damage than whatever Xenos/heretic they are sent to fight lol

[@RECTANGLE339]

I’m glad they found a new Warhammer 40,000 after the man himself, Horus Heresy, broke it.

[@Arizto7828]

2:22 more like the man that kicked his ass so badly that he still has nightmares about him

[@lukedaoutdoorguy7639]

Never forget, "AVENGE ME BROTHER"

[@mistah3687]

The things I love about the Black Templars are condensed into one book: Helsreach. Despite being absolutley savage in battle and having such religous zeal that it baffles me, they can still be human.

[@Mikethemerciless11]

When I got to play Deathwatch, the TTRPG, I played a Black Templar Assault Marine who was an Emperor's Champion. The story goes that this guy, Tancred, wiped out a bunch of Orks, and then challenged their Waaugh Boss to a fight, beat that guy with a literal stick because he had dulled the sword he was given by killing all those other Orks, and began weeping because there was nobody else left to fight, because he wanted to make Sigismund proud, and he felt like he failed. Helbrecht himself sends him to the Deathwatch, with additional orders not to harm other Space Marines, especially the Librarians, unless they become a problem. Tancred would only take orders from the Inquisitor if they did not at all conflict with what Helbrecht, his boss, told him to do. He made the Inquisitor rather nervous. Which enabled him to play nice with the other Marines of the Deathwatch squad. Only to a point. If you didn't slay some heretic or mutant or alien in some awesomely gruesome way, which is easy to do in Deathwatch, he'd tell you about it. He'd challenge the others, to do things like shove that Chaos Daemon's head up its own ass, or suplex that Lictor, or groin punch a Necron to death. Then, he'd proceed to show everyone how any of that was done.

[@swykitsune6836]

“Brother… you must fight…. Until you are done… death is the only end you will find”

[@stryz5736]

*"I have come to vanquish all daemons and low-quality razors in this realm!"*

[@JZ0UK]

I dunno why but I've never found Sigismund interesting... He's always reminded me of Homer's list of demands about Poochie... "Whenever Poochie is not on screen everyone should be asking where's Poochie?!"... Even when Dorne broke his heart I couldn't sympathise with him, Kharn had the right of him... he's empty inside, like a more broken but less important Valdor...

[@bcw1313]

“He’s empty inside” I think that’s the point the fanboys don’t want to get.

[@LinkiePup]

YOU- YOU DIDNT FINISH THE HI! all that does is fill me with a rage like no other. I will use that rage against the corrupt, the mutant, the Alien..

[@tomjordan7606]

Its should be noted, that other imperial fist successors use the emperors champion, but the black templars are the ones who truly represent them. They have one for every crusade. Some crusades can literally be 40 astartes and have one from their number declared champion provided with master crafted weapons and equipment.

[@mikecarusone]

Abaddon: You finally lost, Sigismund. I am the Warhammer 40,000 Ezekyle Abaddon during the first black crusade

[@Sigismundssword]

Finally, ive been waiting for you to do my favorite chapter

[@LemanRussVanquisher]

I love the title to this video because it's exactly why I love the Templars. They fit the setting and the idea of being a Space Marine so well. When you tell new people to the hobby about the cold, inhuman, grimdark, gothic, space knights and then show them a Cobalt blueberry with they tend to be like "oh, you mean these guys, I sort of see it." But if you show them a Black Templar with glowing red eyes, they are immediately like "yep, makes perfect sense."

[@GrayderFox]

Ah, I see. They're so badass, there isn't even a joke at the end like usual.

[@cncmne7404]

Plan for the Crimson fists ie an episode called "I did not hear no bell".

[@ranger36100]

Collect the joy toy 1/18 black Templars, then you’ll be stood in awe of this righteous chapter

[@worldwar1flyingace645]

Black Templars are what first drew me into 40k.

[@danesorensen1775]

I loved the old rules that combined neophytes and marines into a single unit, and any wounds taken by a unit had to be applied to the neophytes first. They canon used neophytes as human shields and I found that hilarious.

[@rump438]

Bro he didn’t just kill kharn he fucking DESTROYED kharn

[@Jake19774TW]

"You can not defeat me Khârn, for I have all fourty thousand warhammers"

[@AllsparkSupremacy]

Grimaldus apologizing for the waste of ammunition on fungi..... Boss level maxed!

[@Captain_Mulligan]

Black Templars: When you wanna play the most evil marines possible without playing chaos... they are the polar opposite of the nice salamanders and happily kill civilians

[@ADragonFruit440]

These guys would follow the doom slayer into every situation possible blindfolded

[@arth-ritisoutdooradventure7467]

Sigismund is just Doom Guy in 40k: rip and tear until it is done.

[@Tgruss]

I played a lot of beer pong in college. I used to talk mad shit BEFORE I took my shot, as if making the shot was a forgone conclusion. The most brutal or over the top confident one liners I could think of. I made maybe 1 out of 10 of these shots. But those shots that I did make? Same energy, expect the black templars rarely miss.

[@familyjobe853]

Do a video about sm tanks from normal, hh and primaris period (and also the imperial knight faction)

[@isaactinnel6269]

The black templars are what the world eaters would be if angron wasn’t fucked up

[@supersonicsauropod]

I think they're cool as fuck until someone 'accidentally' paints the iron cross on them

[@InsomniacTC]

Apologies brother. All I could hear for the whole video was " PUUUUURGING WIIIIIITH MY KIIIIIIIN"

[@Ajax_025]

My favorite thing about the BT emperors champion is their armor and sword are just "the best in the crusade". They probably have relics set aside, but maybe you just get Steve's sword and Brad's armor, cause you had a vision.

[@averagecayde6enjoyer520]

This the most warhammer 40k of all time.

[@Dutch40KGuy]

Holy shit that intro HIT ME