The Templars, or known in game as 'Templar Industries', are a fictional international Private Military Corporation, and are the primary threat in the Shadow Plague followed by the World Health Organization. The Templars will continually be referenced to prior to them revealing themselves, with news bulletins stating their prowess. They will first appear when the vampire has eventually been discovered by the world after killing too many humans from feeding. They will first make a announcement to the world revealing the existence of the vampire before they begin fortifying countries. The announcement appears as a popup. This also serves as a warning to the player of the imminent arrival of the Templar.
Overview[]
When the Templars fully reveal themselves, they will have fortified anywhere from four to seven countries, unlike Z Com, who only fortify one country initially. The Templars will fortify countries with the least amount of infected humans, or at random if there are none. Similar to Z Com, the Templars can create additional bases by sending reinforcement planes.
Templar Bases
The Templar base inhibits the vampires directly, dealing constant damage to the vampire passively and prevents them from setting up any lairs. The base has its own health bar that works exactly like the vampire itself, regenerating whenever if they're not under fire. once the health hits zero, or if the country's population is gone, the base is destroyed. Templar bases will constantly reinforce themselves over time, send drones to attack vampire lairs and dramatically accelerate cure research, meaning they should always be prioritized.
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If a Templar base is destroyed by a vampire, then the surviving base personnel will evacuate on Templar transport planes and will randomly fly to any other functional Templar bases. Each plane will further reinforce that base's defense, thus making it much harder to attack any base that received a large influx of survivors. In addition, the player will receive a large amount of DNA points for destroying a base, which decreases as the difficulty increases. Destroying a base damages the cure effort significantly, if it exists.
Tips[]
- Try to destroy all Templar bases as soon as possible.
- Attacking the Templar Bases before evolving Shadow Blessing is often a highly viable option, since this renders their ability to boost cure research completely useless and one vampire, if used well, is enough to take down all of them.
- Make Blood Rage stronger to better tackle Templar bases. Higher level bases can prove impossible to destroy if Blood Rage is not leveled enough. Dark Ritual is also necessary to regain lost health while not allowing the base to recover much,
- Use multiple vampires to help destroy a higher level Templar base.
- Consider rotating a new vampire in when the original attacker is running low on health, or send them both in to quicken the base's destruction. If you have only one, pull them out to refill their health via a Blood Rage or a Lair, preferably with the associated upgrades.
- Prioritize destroying Templar bases over WHO research labs, although if you need a quick DNA boost, the WHO labs do provide a small amount.
- It's highly recommended to evolve Shadow Portals, as this allows Vampires to teleport to Lairs and save them from destruction.
- If you have good overall control and won't worry about the cure much, you can use Shadow Slaves and the vampire itself as a transmission vector to fully infect and enslave a country in seconds. This ensures whatever WHO Labs and Templar bases will have a hard time if they are not taken out easily.
Trivia[]
- Templar Industries are inspired by the Knights Templar, a real world Christian Military Order that existed from 1119 to 1312 AD.
- DarkWater is another Private Military Corporation similar to Templar Industries which features in the Necroa Virus campaign. However, DarkWater only appear as part of a story event, and has no major impact on the game unless their storyline is triggered (which are related to the cure).