Codex - Conservators

The Conservators are an unusual fife holding Astartes Chapter in the Asharn March. They are poor as hell, and have more psykers then is entierly reasonable.

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Conservators Special Rules

The Conservators are an unorthodox but highly effective Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Many units in the conservators forces share similar strengths represented in the following rules:

• And They Shall Know No Fear
• Combat Fire-Teams
• Hearth and Home - Above all, the conservators are a defensive chapter. Units with at least one model with this special rule are stubborn in their own deployment zone.
• Remembrance - Most gear a Conservator carries is effectively a relic. All equipment is kept in the best of quality. Once per game, each unit that contains a model with this special rule can reroll failed to hit rolls with all weapons for one phase.

Warlord Traits

A Conservators warlord can roll his warlord trait from any of the charts from the core rulebook or from the specific Conservators traits chart below.

1. Debt Collector	2. Ancestral Might	3. Ancestral Farsight
The Warlord and his men have a particular grudge against the enemy Warlord and his army, thus they'll make sure the debt is collected. The Warlord and any unit he leads/is attached to gain the Preferred Enemy USR against the enemy warlord, and any unit he is a part of.	The Warlord's wargear belonged to a brother that was known for slaying many mighty enemies and now the machine spirits empower him to greater feats of heroism. The Warlord gains a +1 to Weapon skill and all his melee attacks gain the Life Drain Special rule.	The Warlord's wargear belonged to a brother known for his sharp sight and mastery of ranged weaponry. The Warlord's ranged attacks are precision shots on a 4+ to hit.
4. Ancestral Resolve	5. Skilled Commander	6. Master Scavenger
The Warlord's wargear belonged to a brother that was known to be a stalwart defender who didn't let any enemy pass by. The Warlord gains the Eternal Warrior USR.	The Warlord is a loud and commanding presence on the battle field. Friendly units within 12" of the Warlord can use his Leadership rather than their own.	The Warlord has done better then most scavenging equipment. The warlord my treat any one weapon he is carrying as master crafted.

Conservator Equipment

The conservators forces mainly employ the standard weapons of the Adeptus Astartes, but they also have been forced to gerry rig and flat out invent some new weapons. Also, focus rods figure largely in their armory.

Weapon Table	Range	S	AP	Type
Scout Bow	12"	3	-	Assault 2, rending
Brother Bow	18"	4	-	Assault 2, rending
Scorpion Repeating Crossbow	18"	6	5	Heavy 6, Rending
Ruby-Eye Vehicle Mounted Crossbow	36"	8	2	Heavy 4, Rending
Rod of Punch	24"	2xUser	3	Assault 1, Focus Rod
Rod of Lance	36"	2xUser	2	Heavy 1, Lance, Focus Rod
Rod of Lightning	18"	User+1	5	Assault 4, Focus Rod
Rod of Destruction	18"	2xUser	1	Assault 1, Beam, Melta, Focus Rod
Rod of Flames	Template	4	5	Assault 1, Focus Rod
Dawngate	48"	10	1	Ordanance 1, Large Blast, Barrage, Focus Rod

Ranged Weaponry

Focus Rods: A special invention of Dakar university, these are in effect psykic blinkers. They allow psykers to use their powers fairly safely, at the expense of versatility.

Models carrying weapons with this special rule are considered to be "attuned" to the focus rod(s) they are Carrying. During the psycic phase on your turn, they will always try to activate any rod(s) they are carrying. This is considered to be a warpcharge 1 power, with one automatic success. You may use additional dice to try to increase the number of successes to make denying the activation harder. Opponents may attempt to Deny this power as normal. Activated focus rods can be fired using the profile given in their description. Warp charges used to activate focus rods can't be used during other players psychic phase to attempt to deny powers.

Melee Weaponry

Personal Sword: Unique to each Full Brother of the Conservators. These are swords they crafted for themselves with the aid of their homeworlds greatest blacksmith, and meditated with over the Titan Stone. Counts as a close combat weapon.

Sword: A simple Steel sword, often carried by scouts. Counts as close combat weapon.

Miscellaneous Equipment

Great Armour: The chapters supply of Artificer armor was never very large, and the rest of it was lost in the first Great war against the Orks. A replacement of a kind was created by taking a normal suit of power armor, and effectively making a suit of plate for it. This armor provides a 2+ save, and the bulky special rule.

Horse: The standard mount of the scouts, more out of necessity then anything else. Changes the models type to cavalry. Rhino: A really big herbivore, used by the full brothers as mounts. Changes the models type to cavalry, grants them +1 toughness, the relentless special rule, and rather then a single hammer of wrath hit on the charge they get d3.

Armory

Ranged Weapons

A model can exchange its Melee Weapon and/or bolt pistol for one of the following:

• Brother Bow: +5 pts.
• Combi-Flamer, Melta, or Plasma: +10 pts.

Melee Weapons

A model can exchange its Close Combat Weapon and/or bolt pistol for one of the following:

• Power Weapon: +15 pts.
• Lightning Claw: +15 pts.
• Power Fist: +25 pts.
• Chainfist: +30 pts.

Terminator Weapons

A model can exchange his storm bolter with one of the following:

• Combi-flamer, -melta, or -plasma: +6pts
• Lightning claw: +10pts
• Thunder hammer: +25pts

A model can exchange his power weapon with one of the following:

• Shock Maul, Lightning Claw or Storm shield: +5pts
• Power fist: +10pts
• Chainfist or Thunder hammer: +15pts

Special Wargear

A model can take up to one of each of the following:

• Melta bombs: +5pts
• Teleport homer: +10pts

Models without the bulky special rules may also take one of the following:

• Jump pack: +15pts
• Rhino: +15pts

Models in scout armor may take one of the following:

• Horse: +5pts

Units

HQ

Captain

Captains of the Conservators are often seen as the field leadership of the chapter. Given the dispersed nature of the chapter, they often end up being the highest ranking officer on their home planet.

90 points

	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv	Unit Type	Composition
Captain	6	5	4	4	3	5	3	10	3+	Infantry (C)	1 Captain

Wargear:

• Power Armor
• Bolt Pistol
• Sword
• Frag and Krak Grenades
• Iron Halo

Options: Have access to the Melee Weapon, Ranged Weapon, Special Wargear, and High Relics sections of the armoury

• May replace Power Armour with Great Armor for 15 points.

Special Rules:

• And They Shall Know No Fear
• Independent Character
• Rhino Herd: If a detatchement includes a captain on a Rhino, Rhino Chavalry can be taken as troop choices.