Kratos Heavy Assault Tank

Not to be confused with the rageaholic albino Spartan from God of War.

The Kratos Heavy Assault Tank was a heavy tank of the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. It was designed as an infantry support tank, and its weapons loadout was tailored to clear a path through enemy lines for the troops following in its wake. The Kratos had three different main weapons: the Kratos battlecannon, volkite cardanelle, or a melta blastgun. The battlecannon was a multipurpose weapon which fired high-explosive, armor-piercing, and flashburn shells, the latter of which were meant to chew through tank armor. The volkite cardanelle was meant for infantry killing, and the melta blast-gun made it a dedicated anti-armor platform. It also had a coaxially mounted autocannon, two hull-mounted weapons, and two sponson-mounted weapons, including lascannons, heavy bolters, and volkite culverins.

Despite its power, the Kratos was eventually made obsolete by smaller, faster vehicles such as the Predator and the Sicaran Battle Tank, though some legions kept their Kratoses in reserve. The Blood Angels in particular made good use of them during the Signus Campaign. In terms of combat power, the Kratos rested somewhere between a Sicaran and a Fellblade; it was more heavily armed than a Sicaran, but not quite as heavily as a Fellblade or its variants.