Krios Battle Tank

2023-03-03T19:18:12Z

2A02:1808:2:BC75:FE8B:832C:A3F2:A022: /* Krios Venator */

[[File:KriosBattleTank.jpg|200px|right|thumb|What's the point of designing a tank if you leave 80% of its body exposed to the elements?]]
The Krios Battle Tank is the main battle tank of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], and unlike most Imperial Tank designs it is [[FATAL|horrendously exposed,]] what with the cogs and gears being placed everywhere for the eye to see. You would think the Tech Priests would have the dignity to armor up their main battle tanks so that it could survive more than a few minutes in a war. Seriously who the hell designed this! Well, it's not like we haven't seen [[Predator_Tank|laughably insufficient tank suspension]] or [[Leman_Russ_Battle_Tank|ridiculously exposed treads]] on a war machine of the imperium before...although the Rhino/Predator looks just like a real life US military vehicle so maybe not that unrealistic. And technically the Leman Russ like almost all Imperial vehicles was not a tank STC design but was shoehorned into the role. The Krios has no such excuse.

Ranting aside, the Krios is an ancient and arcane tank that is durable and protected by interlocking energy fields (Which I believe off-sets its horribly exposed mechanics, although that is still not an excuse). Its most common armament is the [[Lightning Cannon]] which can fuck over most enemy vehicles and tanks, making it akin to a [[Predator|Space Marine Predator]], except more incompetently designed.

On the other hand, its closer to a SPG (self-propelled gun) than a tank in design: its just a gun on treads, and its meant to go fast and flank rather than slug it out. Its also mentioned that its got a pretty big and powerful reactor for its size, and that it uses this to both keep its super-charged engines running and its cannon firing. Presumably its open design is for cooling, since the combination of hot engine and hot gun will melt it into scrap, causing the tending tech priest to have an aneurysm (or BSOD).

The main weapon for the Krios is the aforementioned [[Lightning Cannon]], a laser-guided electromagnetic beam designed to focus on a target and fucking melt it. It has a pretty short range, though, so the lack of a turret means that it takes some work to compensate for that. But, you don't need to worry about ammo and compared to a las-cannon, it has a much higher rate of fire.

==Krios Venator==
[[File:Krios 1 Venator.png|200px|right|thumb|When you need to make the perfect glass cannon.]]
Yes, believe it or not, the Krios has another brother called the '''Krios Venator''' which changed the role of the Krios from an assault gun to a dedicated tank destroyer, swapping its Lightning Cannon (which already fucks vehicles) with a [[Pulsar-Fusil|Pulsar-Fusil]] [[Awesome|(Think a multi-chambered particle beam cannon designed to fire volleys of destructive energy bolts which detonate explosively upon hitting their target)]], like most Super OP weaponry, the Pulsar-Fusil is guarded by the Mechanicus, only using when they are dragged into a conflict.

The Krios Venator is comparable in function and tactical role to the Predator main battle tank that is used by other Imperial forces. Although the Krios lacks the more flexible traversable turret for its main weapon, it makes up for this disadvantage with its greater speed and manoeuvrability.

On tabletop for [[Horus Heresy]], the Pulsar-Fusil from the Krios Venator is a [[Rape|S7 AP3 large blast marine eating lightning gun onto a A9 AP2 ordnance 4 tank killer machine]], [[Awesome|all for just ''25 extra points''.]] They also have Autosimulacra and access to Anbaric claws and Volkite sentinels. If you felt the need to rush your tanks in and make them more deadly. With Mauler Bolt Cannons, Irradiation engines, the 3-shot battlecannon on the paladin, and more anti-MEQ, the Krios Venator is just a much better choice than their normal cousins. They, like their normal cousins have the same armored profile, which is a 13/12/10 3HP tank with a flare shield to boot.

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Li Dao

2023-03-03T19:12:01Z

2A02:1808:2:BC75:FE8B:832C:A3F2:A022:

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Li Dao, also known as '''The Fire Dragon''', '''Master of the Burning Winds''' and '''Lord of the Phoenix''' is one of the Dragons who rules over [[Cathay]] and is the son of [[The Dragon Emperor]] and The Moon Empress.

He is largely in charge of running the Southern Provinces of the empire, which compared to the wealthy trade ports of the East, the bountiful breadbasket of the Center and the industrial hub and Great Bastion in the north, is largely a backwater comprised mostly of small towns and villages surrounded by rolling foothills. The only big city of note is Fu-Hung where Li Dao rules and has a large collection of temples. Li Dao has three main jobs in the south, to protect the Southern Border from the Naggas of Kuresh and Ind, to keep the Monkey King in check and make sure he doesn't try to take over the country again, and to watch over the monks at the Phoenix Temple to make sure that their worship follows Cathay's anti religion doctrines.

He is the most militaristic and dictatorial in his rule compared to his siblings, largely because due to having the smallest natural barriers of the Cathayan borders aside from the Mountains of Heaven (The East has the sea, the West has the Mountains of Mourne and the Warpstone Desert and the North has the Bastion) it's the easiest of the borders for invaders to attack from. This means aside from [[Miao Ying]] he's doing the most fighting for the sake of the country, constantly trying to fight off any furries or scalies that think about hopping the border and moving further inland. The situation sometimes gets so bad that he has to team up with the Monkey King from the Mountains of Heaven, who usually takes the chance to be as much of an annoying little shit as possible.

This makes him extremely bitter towards his sister Miao Ying, who constantly gets praise and attention from their father for defending the North while he views his job as just as hard if not harder. Family get togethers usually result in him screaming "I DO THE EXACT SAME SHIT SHE DOES AND I DON'T HAVE A GIANT FUCK OFF WALL TO HELP ME!" while Miao laughs in a corner. The constant stress of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a thankless job defending the southern border 24/7, having to deal with the annoying overgrown ape the most out of all of his siblings and constantly being overshadowed by his big sister has resulted in him having a horrible temper to the point where [[Angron]] is suggesting that he relax a little bit. Given that he is also a master fire mage means that when he does get mad someone or something is likely getting incinerated to ashes. He likely dreams of the day where he is the one in the spotlight and where he would never have to deal with another animal human creature ever again.

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