Warhammer 40K Hot Mess – Space Marine Servitors
Space Marine Servitors are sad sacks of metal parts with bad pants. So why not make them fun again?
Instead of being the cool hype men for Techmarines they are normally just used to baby sit an objective without every doing anything fun. Servitors are supposed to be punished humans set for a life of endless servitude. Do you need your armor waxed? The servitor will do it. How about some kind of complicated data input on a space ship? That servitor will do it gladly while eating corpse starch made from his friend that died during an Ork Infestation. How about a in-a-bad-alley Tech Marine Servitor fight? Servitor X43457 is glad to shuffle up and take a powerfist to their unmentionables.
The sheer body horror that is a Servitor should mean it is set up for some kind of crazy life of damage dealing, damage taking, and defending their Techmarine space daddy. I don’t know if you need to make it where they deal more damage but I am sure I can think of cooler things to do with them. Grimaldus is one of the more interesting options and moving things in that direction is where I think we could something interesting with the lowly Servitor.
Servitor Basic Idea
The regular Servitor shouldn’t be good – but they should be interesting. Why not let them become a gang around the Tech Marine or Primaris Tech Marine. Let them each have different options to make them unique and help create this little murder ball of doom. Each one does something fun and you start to have a nice little unit that helps boost his mechanical Tech-Daddy but also the things around it.
Aura of Less Damage
Hey why not make one really good at fixing things? Either they give a -1d aura to vehicles or some kind of Feel No Pain to only dreadnoughts and the like. This way you get a more themed option for your leader guy and his little helpers who do things. Creating simple auras of making things better is a great way to make the Servitor unique.
Give Them Some Damage Options
Some servitors have guns so giving them some kind of cool concentrated damage output could be neat. Set up a few Multi Meltas and let them get bonus’s if they target the same thing. Maybe they see thru the eyes of the Tech Marine and hit better. Or have something where their Tech-daddy targets something and makes a cool tactical decision of giving them a ton of death coming their way. Or maybe just keep it simple and pour on more space lasers.
Have Them Get Different Options
An assault version would be neat too? Maybe it isn’t just an assault version but one that has Imperial Hymns. Maybe you could have a Chaplain get a Servitor Retinue option too? Or let other characters have these options. Like the wounds given to the unit have to go to the Servitors first and lets you create neat little character options that are flavorful and kinda creepy.
There is a lot you could do just to make the retinue aspect cooler and something unique for the Space Marine chapters. Have them holding their armies relics, be actual body guards, or just hypeguys for you battle nonsense – this could be a lot cooler of a unit.
Let us know how you would fix the unit, down in the comments!
