Editing Tyranid Kraken (section)

===Ram-Boat===

====Doomripper====

[[File:Doomsripper_Kraken.jpg|300px|right|thumb|[[Wat|WHAT. THE. FUCK. IS. THIS!?]]]]

The cookie-cutter sharks of the Nids.

A Doomripper binds to a prey vessel with its giant maw and dozens of writhing tentacles. Once attached to a prey, a Doomripper will die rather than let go. It becomes a desperate race against time for the prey vessel as they must kill the creature before their own hull is crushed and their innards are feasted on by the Doomripper. Although all things considered, you could just kill the fucker by squishing it with another allied ship.

Because it is an old model, the Doomripper looks absolutely [[Derp]]. Like, what the proverbial fuck are we looking at? [[FAIL|It looks like a postmodernist art piece or a clay model shark that has been stretched and rolled by little Timmy.]]

It is armed with [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Feeder Tentacles|Feeder Tentacles]] and a [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Great Claws|giant Suction Mouth.]]

*'''Length:''' 3.2km; approx
*'''Mass:''' 5 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' Thousands of organisms
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.5 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx
====Ramspitter====

[[File:Ramsmiter_Kraken.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Looking like something out of Metroid.]]

An old model of Krakens.

A Ramsmiter is the most common species of Kraken. It has a hook-like proboscis it uses to pierce the armoured hulls of enemy ships and then suck out all the digestible material inside while simultaneously vomiting broods of [[Genestealer]]s and [[Hormagaunt]]s into the vessel.

Despite being considered as the most common of Krakens, the Ramspitter has not been given a playable model for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2. It is possible that, due to its way of attack, it was succeeded by the Strangler Kraken as shown below.

It is armed with a [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Feeder Tentacles|Proboscis.]]

*'''Length:''' 3.5km; approx
*'''Mass:''' 5.3 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' Thousands of organisms
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.3 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx
====Strangler====

[[File:14434404_f1024.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The crew slurper.]]

A Kraken with feeder tentacles to OMNOMNOM the ships' crew. The more boarding action-happy of the ram-boats.

The Strangler Kraken is basically the tougher variant of the 3 assault escorts, all equipped with feeder tentacles. Because of the nature of assaults and the tentacles weapons, there is no difference damage-wise between the three, so the differences instead revolve around secondary characteristics of the vessels.

Of the two destroyers, the [[Strangler Escort Drone]] is the cheapest basic version. The [[Strangler Vanguard Drone Ship]] has the same stats as the Drone except for a slightly higher cost thanks to the Marker ability it brings. Finally, the Strangler Kraken is the most expensive, but doubles the hit points of the two Destroyers, as it is a Frigate class ship, and drops the marker ability for the hull regeneration ability granted to all the Kraken Frigates.

It is armed with 1 [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Feeder Tentacles|Feeder Tentacles and Hook Tentacles.]]

*'''Length:''' 3.5km; approx
*'''Mass:''' 5.5 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' Thousands of organisms
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.3 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx
====Clutch====

[[File:14434387_f1024.jpg|300px|right|thumb|OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!]]

A Kraken with a giant mouth to OMNOMNOM ships. They are only good for ramming and nothing else, as they lack any other range weapons other than its giant [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Great Claws|Claws.]]

The Clutch Kraken, therefore, is the only Tyranid escort to come equipped with the special Claws melee weapons. Unlike the feeder tentacles, the Claws do not work on a cooldown, basically always [[RIP AND TEAR|"firing"]] whenever the Clutch Kraken, or any other of the "melee" ships, is in contact with an enemy ship.

Thanks to the conferred immunity to frontal rams, the Clutch Kraken is safe to use Rush for the burst of speed, into larger enemy ships without worrying about suiciding your Frigates in the process. If they get rammed or make contact with their sides or rear in a collision, they are still likely to insta-pop, especially if at speed and against anything larger than a Light Cruiser.

It is armed with [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Great Claws|Claws.]]

*'''Length:''' 3.7km; approx
*'''Mass:''' 5.8 megatonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' Thousands of organisms
*'''Acceleration:''' 2.3 gravities max sustainable acceleration; approx