Kratos might be the main character in GOW series but the Greek mythology figure is what is of interest. Take a look at this description from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cratos
“In Greek mythology, Kratos ("strength") was a son of Styx and Pallas, brother of Nike, Bia and Zelus. He was the personification of strength and power. Kratos and his siblings were all companions of Zeus.”
In simple words, when one mentions Kratos, it simply means “I am power ”. This game will tell it all, briefly, we have Team 1 (Yellow Terran-Akira at the top left and White Terran-Kratos at the bottom right) while for Team 2, we have (Blue Zerg-Raz on the bottom left and Orange Toss at the top right).
Early into the game (Game Time 4:05), Orange Toss and Blue Zerg went for a quickie rush trying to penetrate Yellow’s base. What follows is Blue and Orange cheap tactics of ganging up on one work and the ramp has been opened. From this point onwards, it’s Kratos’s offensive defense or a.k.a. OD (not overdose). Kratos quickly began production of vultures the moment his ally fell in battle.
The Orange Toss thinks he could break the ramp so he went all the way in. However, Kratos knows best and sent five vultures to slowly decimate the Toss (Game 6:45). Naturally, Orange wasted his troops, thus leaving Blue to penetrate the ramp by himself. Once again Kratos says let them come, let them talk to my vultures (Game Time 8:33) and more casualties for blue.
Once bitten, twice shy, Orange and Blue decides to tech-up and build, however, once again, Kratos knows best, strike when the iron is hot (Game Time 10:32), or the start of his OD plan. With a squad of vultures, they ravaged the hatchery while Orange and Blue who have not tech-up watch helplessly.
Orange sent 3 DTs but it’s like trying to outrun a car on foot and eventually sacrifice his DTs to prevent more mine-laying (Game Time 12:02). With the hit-and-run and mining, Kratos achieved his greatest resource in the game, “time”, sufficiently enough to have an expansion while denying the Orange and Blue expansions, given their paranoia of walking in a minefield.
We shall fast forward to (Game Time 15:35) where Kratos upped his OD plan by camping outside Orange’s expansion and then attempting to attack Blue’s expansion (Game Time 19.23). Given such a predicament, as Orange lack the resources to mount any air offense to break-out, Orange simply message blue “You dropping rite?” and decides to camp and hopes blue saves the day.
Blue’s response (another Kratos or Zeus himself, more to be revealed in time) was “Let them camp all they like” and proceeds to muta (take out turrets) and hydra-drop (eliminate ground troops) simultaneously at the weakest part of White’s OD plan, a lightly defended HQ (Game Time 20:03). This is truly battle of the titans and Kratos decides to call it a day. Hence, one would expect to fall back and camp when his ally KO’ed early in the game, but to go on OD on 2 expansions and fight a two-front war is truly “power”, or simply put "I AM KRATOS !!".
PS: Eligibility for being a Kratos disciple requires a sacrifice. More will be revealed as the author finds out more on how to apply to be a Kratos apprentice
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