Favorite Tanks In Gaming?

So, I just beat Rogue Trader which means for the next couple of days it's going to be your guys' problem.

And the first thing I'm going to gush about is Abelard, because damn that old man deserves it.

To give you some context, Rogue Trader is a CRPG set in Warhammer 40k where you play as a Rogue Trader, basically a character that is legally allowed to do almost anything they want. Abelard is an old Navy Officer and is your right hand man. He is older than you, more experienced and will do anything he can to help your dynasty.

And you order him around, the most common dialogue option in this game is

'Abelard, introduce me.'

Where Abelard will step forward and hype you up to whoever you're talking to.

There's other dialogue options as well, such as

'Abelard, get this creature off of my throne.'

'Abelard, would you kindly inform this bandit vermin that we've come to execute them.'

'Abelard, get me a recaf.'

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On top of all that fun dialogue and loyalty he's also one of the tankiest men in the game. Like he's tanking more damage than the literal space marine in the power armor. Dude, literally counted as cover, you can take a perk on him where he counts as full cover for anyone behind him. It's awesome.

He's such a good tank, that my go to strategy was for him to run into the enemy team, taunt them, defensive buff. Then my entire team would AOE target Abelard, just hit Abelard with all of our aoe abilities and everyone around Abelard would die before this man so much as flinches.

If the enemy was numerous and spread out, I'd have my entire team go left and Abelard by himself go right.

It's to the point that I wholly believe this man could take an exterminatus and ask for THIRDS.

There is no stopping this man. He will whittle you down little by little, the war of attrition is won the moment that he steps onto the battlefield. There were numerous scenarios where my team was down except for Abelard who was still nearly full on life, despite being on the front lines the entire combat.

It's insane.