Ravener

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A Ravener is an assault-specialized Tyranid creature, much like the Space Marines' Assault Squads. They both focus on being in close quarters, they both can ignore difficult terrain (though Raveners do so by digging tunnels through the terrain rather than jumping over it), and they are both ill-suited for dealing with lots of dakka. Fleet also helps them to harass some unsuspecting targets, but not for any long fights with, say, any MEQ.

However, don't count them as being incapable of ranged battle at all. Provided one has enough points, the brood's members can be upgraded spinefists, which give it a good weapon, if not pretty low, a devourer which can chop flimsy guardsmen and trap them there, and the deathspitter, which is largely better than the devourer. Also, they can switch a pair talons for rending claws, which can help cut through the numbers.

In Dawn of War II, one of the heroes for the nids, the Ravener Alpha (Essentially just a bigger Ravener), learns to take a page from the Trygon's book and build large tunnels for allied units to crawl through.

Tyrannic Bio-Organisms
Leader Organisms: Broodlord - Hive Tyrant - Neurotyrant - Norn Queen - Tyranid Warrior
Small Creatures: Barbgaunt - Gargoyle - Genestealer - Hormagaunt
Neurogaunt - Ripper - Spinegaunt - Termagant
Medium Size
Creatures:
Biovore - Hive Guard - Lictor - Neurothrope - Parasite of Mortrex - Pyrovore
Ravener - Tyrant Guard - Venomthrope - Von Ryan's Leaper - Zoanthrope
Monstrous Creatures: Carnifex (Screamer-Killer - Stone Crusher - Thornback) - Dimachaeron
Exocrine - Haruspex - Malanthrope - Maleceptor - Mawloc
Psychophage - Tervigon - Toxicrene - Trygon - Tyrannofex
Gargantuan Creatures: Cerebore - Dactylis - Hierodule - Malefactor - Nautiloid - Viragon
Flying Creatures: Harpy - Harridan - Hive Crone - Mucolid Spore
Bio-Titans: Dominatrix - Hierophant - Hydraphant - Viciator
Floral Structures: Capillary Tower - Reclamation Pool
Spaceborne Creatures: Ether-Swimming Brood - Mycetic Spore - Tyrannocyte
Other Organisms: Bio-Weapons - Cortex Leech - Meiotic Spore - Neurocyte
Neuroloid - Spore Mine - Sporocyst - Zoats
Unique Creatures: Deathleaper - Laius Horror - Old One-Eye - The Red Terror - Swarmlord
Auxiliaries: Genestealer Cult