Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Space Marines (section)

====Litanies of the Devout====
To compensate for their lack of a Psychic Discipline, the Black Templars gain six unique Litanies for their Chaplains to use instead of the usual one. You are sooooo bringing a Master of Sanctity for them- good thing you can just take Grimaldus instead of using the CP for the Master of Sanctity Stratagem.
#'''Litany of Divine Protection''': Target friendly {{W40Kkeyword|black templars}} unit within 6" gets a 5+++ FNP without being restricted to mortal wounds. ''Good, but suffers from not being a bubble''.
#'''Psalm of Remorseless Persecution''': Re-roll melee wound rolls of 1 for {{W40Kkeyword|black templars}} units within 6". ''Like having a lieutenant around, but worse''.
#*Then again, the Lieutenant may be somewhere else. It would take both a Chapter Master and a Lieutenant (or Guilliman) to give the rerolls that a Master of Sanctity gives you in melee.
#*White Scars get full wound re-rolls for units within 6". On top of more and better stratagems, relics and Librarians with their own spells. Just play your BT as WS and you'll be a happier man.
#'''Vow of Retribution''': -2 leadership to enemy units within 6". ''Just don't. You're not a leadership bomb based army, and you should usually be trying to keep your chaplain near your own units more than the enemy.''
#*But hear me out! '''Fear Made Manifest''' Master of Sanctity + Phobos Lieutenant with the {{W40kKeyword|Reiver}} keyword. That's -4Ld on top of rerolling all melee and wounds of 1.
#'''Fires of Devotion''': Target a friendly {{W40Kkeyword|black templars}} unit within 6". It gains +1A if it charges or makes a Heroic Intervention until the end of the turn. ''So, if you go first, it's not active during your enemy's half of the battle round unlike other litanies''.
#*Black Templars are already great at making charges, and of course this stacks with Shock Assault.  The only downside is that it's not a bubble, so you want to put it on a melee deathstar of some sort.  It's much better than (and will stack with) Exhortation of Rage in practice, not that Exhortation of Rage was a great Litany to begin with.  Since this one only works offensively, you want it on a faster Chaplain - the Litany does nothing when you are charged.
#'''Fervent Acclamation''': +3" to aura abilities of {{W40Kkeyword|black templars}} units within 6" (which applies to the chaplain, so really 9").
#*BELLOWING VOICE! Crusader Helm Captain, Vox Espiritum Lieutenant, TWELVE-INCHER Auras. Oh and it helps Helbrecht's, Grimaldus', and Cenobyte Servitor's auras too. As well as Standard bearers and the Aurillian Shroud. Positioning made simple, it allows Black Templars to footslogg like they used to.
#'''Oath of Glory''': Target one friendly {{W40Kkeyword|black templars}} unit within 6" to always fights first.
#*Terrible utility. Good for ongoing combats (which you should not count on your opponent giving you); combine it with '''Canticle of Hate''' or '''Devout Push''' to charge and get stuck in. More importantly, you can try to keep them in place with '''Tenacious Assault'''. That way, you deny your enemy their shooting phase, and you still get to fight first on their turn.