There’s an abnormally large subset of the community that’s full on pro facist usually of the Christian nationalist type. And usually they play Black Templars.
Like genuinely I’ve had Black Templar players go into the whole “the crusades were good actually” thing
They had a boost in the competitive scene for awhile a few years back because they got a range refresh and their new book was broken so meta chasers glomed on to them as they always do, it also helped that because Black Templars are a space marine faction it's super easy to take your non-black templar marines and say they're being run as black templars.
But that changed and they fell back to their normal level. Typically they're one of the lowest played divergent space marine factions and while player stats are always hard to judge they're the only divergent Marine faction to ever have been removed from the game.
They're currently the 3rd least played army in the game and of the 2 factions played less than them, 1 of them is widely considered an incomplete faction that's about to be removed from the game and the other is stuck in rules hell.
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u/Obscure_Occultist 9h ago
The imperium has servitors made out of babies. Anyone who thinks they are the good guys are insane.