SPACE MARINES LEGION ASTARTES: KRATOS HEAVY ASSAULT TANK
The Kratos was based on an ancient Terran pattern originally used in large numbers during the Unification Wars. After the Treaty of Olympus, the Kratos was redesigned to serve in the wider Great Crusade.
It served as a dedicated infantry support tank and its heavy cannon could quickly open a path through massed enemies for any infantry following in its wake. However, the Kratos became obsolete and was later retired when the Legions began to favour faster, more multi-purpose vehicles such as the ubiquitous Predator. Some were kept in the Legions' reserve armouries, though. Notably the Blood Angels Legion's Kratos tanks saw heavy usage in the Battle of Signus Prime.
This multipart plastic kit builds one Kratos Heavy Assault Tank, a nigh-impenetrable war machine bristling with heavy armaments. This impressive vehicle can be built with one of three powerful turret weapons – the versatile Kratos battlecannon, tank-busting melta blast-gun, or searing volkite cardanelle. It also sports a co-axial autocannon, a pair of hull-mounted guns – autocannons, heavy bolters, lascannons, or volkite calivers – and a separate pair of sponson weapons – heavy bolters, heavy flamers, lascannons, or volkite culverins.
The kit also includes components to upgrade the Kratos Heavy Assault Tank with a pintle-mounted weapon – a havoc launcher, heavy bolter, heavy flamer, multi-melta, or a combi-weapon with five configurations (bolter, flamer, melta, plasma, or volkite) – as well as a searchlight, a dozer blade, a hunter-killer missile, and a number of cosmetic options, such as towing hooks and a choice of a Space Marine gunner, spotter, or closed hatch.
This kit comprises 233 plastic components, and is supplied with a Legiones Astartes Vehicle Transfer Sheet containing 44 optional markings and icons for the Sons of Horus and Imperial Fists Legions. This miniature is supplied unpainted and requires assembly – we recommend using Citadel Plastic Glue and Citadel paints.
You will need a copy of the Warhammer: The Horus Heresy – Age of Darkness Rulebook and either the Liber Astartes: Loyalist Legiones Astartes Army Book or Liber Hereticus: Traitor Legiones Astartes Army Book to make full use of this model in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Rules for using the Kratos Heavy Assault Tank in games of Warhammer 40,000 are available as a free download on the Warhammer Community website.
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