It might've taken you a lot of tricky ballis-shots to get where you are when you deal with the Templars. c:
The Conquest isn't much for a sport shooter since it basically does broadside before ever doing the needed shots to take the Templar down, not to mention the speed the speed and durability the Crusaders could take before downing. Even so, the Conquest would have been broadsided instead before it take its maneuvers to anything that is not an Archbishop.
Or Archbishops doing the Broadside while they slow the Conquest down.
Its not that hard. With that much EMP damage and range, not even the templars can just sit and slug it out. Hell, if you support it well enough, even the AI can do it. The only time it didn't work was when it got sandwiched between two paladins. The conquest survived, barely, but it was very close. The broadside doesn't really matter much either. What usually happens is the paladin comes careening at you, slams into you, and sends you flying- which is good. Jesuits and fighters counter it, but if you have Protonus' energy missiles thats not even that much a problem, and you can always wait to field it till you actually see a paladin. If you do put energy missiles on it, it basically hard counters the archbishop into oblivion, as the missiles go for the drones first.