Red Templars
GW canon
Summary
Codex Chapter specialising in search and destroy and pursuit, including bike squads.
Allegiance
Loyalists
Founding
Unknown
Colours
Red with yellow or gold aquila; shoulder pad trim marks the company
Doctrine
Search and destroy, pursuit operations
Epoch
M41–M42
History
The Red Templars are a Codex Chapter specialising in search and destroy and pursuit operations, and are pictured in bike squads. Recorded actions are the harrowing of the Night Reapers in 989–992.M41, the Perun Cross Incident of 992.M41 and the reconquest of Talixetaca in M42.
Notes
Red armour with a yellow or gold aquila; companies are distinguished by shoulder trim.
Sources
Lexicanum, article “Red Templars” (revision 706242, retrieved 25 Oct 2026): https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Red_Templars. Works cited there: Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 73; Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition); Insignium Astartes, pg. 52; Imperial Armour Volume Twelve - The Fall of Orpheus, pgs. 136-137.