"Thanatos has a powerful rocket launcher with a very long range. It can annihilate dozens of infected people with a single shot. When the enemies are too close, Thanatos will fight face to face."
The Thanatos is one of four specialized units requiring Oil that can only be recruited from an Engineering Center. The other three being the Lucifer, the Titan and the Mutant. However, in order to recruit this unit you will first need to purchase the requisite research at a Foundry for 2000 gold.
Like all other units recruited at the Engineering Center it cannot be garrisoned in a tower for protection and ranged bonuses but unlike the Lucifer it can fire freely over walls.
The Thanatos is armed with a rocket launcher which serves as its primary ranged attack causing a large amount of damage in a significant area around the point of impact thus making it a very effective mobile anti swarm unit.
It is also unique in that it is the only unit in the game to passively possess a powerful melee attack with his exoskeleton fist, although this does not have an area of effect like its ranged one.
Even though the Attack Damage is displayed as 70 it is weirdly uneven; the mentioned damage is only valid for the horizontal,vertical, as well as the second diagonal tiles and their close adjacent tiles from the Impact tile.
The direct impact point though can get up to 93 damage, killing executive Infected in one shot. Everything in the direct diagonal tile to the impact point gets reduced damage, down to 41 damage, so even runner zombies would survive this.
| Tier ⇅ | Slow ⇅ | Fast ⇅ | Exec ⇅ | Spec ⇅ | Chubby ⇅ | Behemoth(800%) ⇅ | Giant(800%) ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranged | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 127 | 409 |
| Melee | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 36 | 445 | 1429 |
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Thanatos is personification of death in Greek mythology.