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.
• Relic - Some items are so precious to the Conservators, their recovery can be more important then the success of a mission. Place a marker were a model with this special rule, or carrying a weapon with this special rule died. This marker is now an additional objective, and grants your opponent a victory point if it is not under your control at the end of the game.

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	5	Assault 2
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 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

High Relics

Avalon, the ancestral relic sword: Yes this is excalibur. Yes it will kill everything.

Shield Eternal: Maybe...

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

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.

Options:

• May take items from the Melee Weapon, Ranged Weapon, Special Wargear, and High Relics sections of the armoury
• May replace Power Armour with Great Armor for 15 points.

Professor Emeritus

The vast majority of Conservator librarians are employed at [Dakar University] training the [Arsharn Marches] psykers. Occasionally though their is an excess, and a professor emeritus is named. They still are required to give lectures on occasion, but are able to take to the field alongside their brothers.

65 points

	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv	Unit Type	Composition
Professor Emeritus	5	4	4	4	2	4	2	10	3+	Infantry (C)	1 Professor Emeritus

Wargear:

• Power Armor
• Bolt Pistol
• Force Weapon
• Frag and Krak Grenades
• Psychic hood

Special Rules:

• And They Shall Know No Fear
• Independent Character
• Psyker (Mastery level 1)

Psyker: A professor Emeritus may generate powers from the Deamonology, Biomancy, Piromancy, Telekinesis, and Telepathy disciplines.

Options:

• May be upgraded to psyker Mastery level 2 or 3 ..... 25 points/mastery level
• May replace Bolt Pistol with a Bolt Gun
• May take items from the Ranged Weapon, Special Wargear, and High Relics sections of the armoury
• May replace Power Armour with Great Armor for 15 points.

Command Squad

	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv	Unit Type	Composition
Veteran	4	4	4	4	1	4	2	9	3+	Infantry	5 Veterans
Grad Student	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	4+	Infantry

Troops

Scouts

Pikemen

Pikemen are generally failed Conservator aspirants, through no fault of their own. Gentics is generally the problem, incompatability with the [geneseed]. Still, the Conservators waste nothing, so these washouts are largely recruited as chapter serfs... sort of. While officially serfs, the pikemen are much closer to impirial guardsmen loyal to the conservators. They go into battle at their lords side, bolstering the generally limited numbers of the conservators.

50 points

	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv	Unit Type	Composition
Pikemen	3	3	3	3	1	3	1	7	5+	Infantry	9 Pikemen
Pikemen Sargent	3	3	3	3	1	3	2	8	5+	Infantry (C)	1 Pikemen Sargent
Veteran Scout Sargent	4	4	4	4	1	4	2	8	4+	Infantry (C)	1 Veteran Scout Sargent

Wargear:

• Flak armor
• Lasgun(Pikemen and Pikemen sargent only)
• Scout Bow(Veteran Scout Sargent only)
• Pike(Pikemen and Pikemen sargent only)
• Sword(Veteran Scout Sargent only)
• Frag Grenades

Special Rules:

• Set Pikes: If this unit didn't move during its last movement phase it gains the counter charge special rule.

Options:

• You may take up to 25 additional Pike men ....................................................... 4 points/model
• The entire unit may take Krak Grenades ........................................................... 1 point/model
• The entire unit(excluding Veteran Scout Sargent) may take carapace armor .... 2 points/model
• You may upgrade a Pikemen Sargent to a Veteran scout Sargent .................... 7 points
• Pikemen Sargent or Veterain Scout Sargent may take items from the Melee weapons and/or Ranged Weapons lists.

Dedicated Transport

Trucks

Chimeras

Elites

Tactical Marines(heavy options to take on any role)

Great Armor

Terminators

Fast Attack

Drop pod

Rhino

Rhino Cavalry

Heavy Support

Predator

Mage circle