Gauss Karkinos hmm...that might actually work.
* meanwhile, kills pirates furiously to recover relation with blackrock *
The problem is, while I think that the gauss cannon + kiting/teleport combination can be extremely powerful against templars, I don't see how one can actually finish them off once they're weakened, like usually when their flux goes high they just hide behind other ships and vent.
I don't know if mass pilum will work, because I've seen in templar vs imperium, despite the imperium using a lot of heavy ballista, which is a large missile weapon each equivalent to three or four pilums, missiles flooding the screen, but the lattice shield matrix just takes it like it's nothing.
I could use an afflictor to harass the enemy, and possibly launch a reaper or two at a high flux ship, but the priwin burst is really annoying when it causes flameout despite the fact I am in p-space. (is this a bug or a feature?)
Come to think of it, I think one can beat this (relatively easily) through the use of ROLANDs, like a LOT of them. I remember this large missile weapon to be extremely powerful, in one of the battles, I had three paladins against one enemy paladin with a ROLAND, and this weapon turned the tides. I could put two on each of the conquests, that's a maximum of 8 * 4 * 1000 burst energy damage, with a 75% hit rate. Then I could charge in with a single paladin/paragon and hold them back and tank the hits, while energy missiles tear them apart. The problem is however ROLANDs are so rare I've only encountered them in battle once or twice, and none of them have been actually salvaged.
On a side note, is there any way I could actually develop a positive relation with templars? Not that I approve their crusade in any way, but I just really want to get their weapons (fractal laser / ROLAND) and fighters (teuton wing).