hh3节译：大远征时期的战舰

The conduct of the Great Crusade required vessels by the thousands, vessels that could not only carry armies and bring apocalyptic destruction to bear, but that could also endure the perilous transit of Warp space and endure the titanic forces and hardships of the Empyrean and the Deep Void both. Military vessels were needed, not only to replace losses but meet the ever expanding demands of the Expeditionary fleets, the Armada Imperialis and, on a lesser scale, the Rogue Traders and local navies. To satisfy this constant need, a bewildering variety of classes of warship were developed to fulfil an equally bewildering variety of roles. The following precis gives only the briefest summation of the hundreds of different patterns and classes wrought by the hand of the Imperium and the most common designations.

大远征的实施需要数以千计的星舰，这些星舰不仅能够携带军队并且带来灾难性的毁灭，而且也能够忍受危险的亚空间航行以及来着太空和深空的超强力量与艰辛状况。帝国需要军用舰船，不仅是为了替补损失，也是为了满足远征舰队、帝国无敌舰队（帝国舰队imperial fleet的前身）、以及行商浪人和当地海军这些更小规模组织的不断扩大的需求。为了满足这些持续的需求，令人眼花缭乱的各类战舰被研发出来，用于满足同样让人眼花缭乱的各类任务。下文的概述中仅仅是对于帝国记录下的数百种不同星舰型号和分类的最简短的总结，及其最常见的名称。

The Battleship or Battle Barge

战列舰与战斗母舰

The principal (or capital) class of warship in the Great Crusade and the mainstay of the Imperial fleets is the Battleship, with more than a thousand such mighty engines of war in operation at the height of the Imperium's expansion. They are intended to form the 'line of battle" during fleet engagements and have armaments capable of smashing continents from orbit and controlling entire star systems by force of arms. Battleships are vast constructs ranging commonly between 8 km and 12 km long (although some far larger vessels have been constructed) and can hold tens of thousands of crew, troops and hundreds of war machines as well as swarms of smaller attack craft depending on their design. Battleships are only threatened in ordinary circumstances by others of their own kind and the direst celestial phenomena, and as such are the mainstay of both the Expeditionary fleets and the wider Armada lmperialis. Battle barges, a development of the Great Crusade, are not a single designation or class as such, but rather a term given to any variant or refit of battleship class hull modified and optimised for use by the Legiones Astartes specifically for Space Marine planetary assault and ship-to-ship boarding actions, although purpose-built ships of this role have also been constructed, particularly in the Great Crusade's later years. In common parlance, however, any capital class vessel used by the Legiones Astartes exclusively is often referred to as a battle barge regardless of the technical truth of the matter.

战列舰大远征战舰的主要类型以及帝国舰队的支柱（机仆：不知道各位怎么样，反正我在哥特舰队电子游戏里只能用战列舰打败战列舰），在帝国扩张的高潮时期，有超过一千艘这种强大的战舰服役。她们被用于在舰队交战时组成“战列线”，而且拥有能够从轨道上摧毁大陆并通过武装力量控制整个恒星系统的武力。战列舰是巨大的构造物，长度通常在8千米到12千米之间（不过帝国也建造过某些大的多的战舰），她们能承载数以万计的船员、部队和数以百计的战争机械，以及成群的小型突击艇，这取决于她们的设计。一般情况下，只有战列舰和最可怕的天文现象才能威胁到战列舰。因此，她们是远征舰队和更大的帝国无敌舰队的中流砥柱。战斗母舰是由战列舰在大远征中的发展出来的，她们并非某种独立的名称或者类型，而是对于各种战列舰的变种或者改装版本的统称，这些战列舰的船体进行了改进和优化，被阿斯塔特军团专门用于星际战士的行星突击和舰对舰跳帮行动。不过专门针对此类任务的而特制的舰船也被建造过，尤其是在大远征末期。不过，不考虑技术层面的事实的话，阿斯塔特军团专门使用的所有旗舰级别的战舰通常就是指战斗母舰。

Noteworthy Classes; Goliath, Victory, Gloriana, Infernus, Retribution, Imperator，Tiamat (Shield Bastion), Ironclad, Warsspite(Battle Barge), Dictatus, Mortis Rex.

值得注意的型号：巨人级，胜利级，荣光女王级，炼狱级，报应级，帝皇级（机仆：帝皇级是个非常古老的型号，事实上现在帝国之所以还能造这类战舰就是因为回收过相对完整的帝皇级太空废船——哥特战争时期的哥特舰队旗舰“天赋皇权”号帝皇级战列舰就是用那艘废船维修改造而成的），提亚马特级（盾卫堡垒），铁甲级，蔑战级（战斗母舰），训诫级，逝者君王级

Grand Cruiser and Galleass of War

超大型巡洋舰和战争巨舰

A noteworthy but relatively uncommon type of warship, Grand Cruisers are *pocket battleships' - something of a halfway house between a battleship and a cruiser in size and firepower. They are intended principally to be capable of operating on their own rather than as part of a larger fleet, however, and are often further specially designed either for range (which is to say duration of deployment without significant resupply or refit) or to mount a specialised weapon system which requires particular tactics to utilise. Grand cruisers can make for formidable heavy raiders and can use their range and speed to catch targets unawares, as well as being powerful flagships for small fleets of cruisers and escorts. The Galleass of War is the equivalent vessel (often much larger physically), much of whose fabric is given over to freight and transport capacity, while still maintaining formidable armaments and defence. They make for ideal support vessels for deep-range explorations into unknown regions of space and as the flagships of the most powerful Rogue Traders Militant.

一类值得记录但相对而言不那么常见的战舰型号，大型巡洋舰是“口袋战列舰”，某种程度上她是战舰和巡洋舰在规模和火力上的折中版本她们主要是为了执行独立任务，而非作为大型舰队的一部分，不过，她们通常会进行进一步的特殊设计：可能是为了射程，也可能是为了安装一个在特定战术中才会使用的特殊武器系统。大型巡洋舰可以用作可怕的重型劫掠舰（机仆：没记错的话，在现实中，ijn和rn曾经提出过大巡的构想，设想是用于专门猎杀巡洋舰，不过说实话这类工作交给战巡基本就能解决），她能利用自己的射程和速度出其不意地抓住目标，也可以成为巡洋舰和护卫舰组成的小型舰队的强大旗舰（讲真：根据我云舰c和舰r的经验，带小学生中学生挂远征这种活儿，基本就是重巡和战巡的工作）。战争巨舰是大型巡洋舰是同等级战舰（但体积通常大得多），其大部分结构被用于货运和运输能力，但她们也都保有可怖的武力和防御力。它们是对太空中未知区域进行深度探测的理想的支援船舰，也能作为最为强大的行商浪人私兵的旗舰（机仆：在40k，最nb行商浪人也就是从海军手里买艘退役轻巡）

Noteworthy Classcs: Dagon, inflexibility,Maelstrom, Odysseus (Galleass of War)，avenger

值得注意的型号：达贡级（机仆：？！船上是不是安装了能加速时间流动的特殊武器（笑）），顽固级，大漩涡级，奥德修斯级（战争巨舰） ，复仇者级

Cruisers

巡洋舰

Light Cruisers and Heavy Cruisers are medium-sized warships, ranging in general terms between 4 km and 6 km in length and with an on-board complement ranging into the thousands. They are intended primarily for independent military operations such as raids, outpost assaults, deep-range patrols and search-and-destroy missions, and for use as 'workhorse' warships in larger fleets and squadrons. The difference between the two primary types of cruiser is principally found not in general size (although this may also be the case) but role and specialisation; heavy or Armoured Cruisers as they are also known, are designed to favour defence and firepower (particularly over-gunned ships for their class may be referred to as Battle Cruisers). Light cruisers sacrifice some of these elements for greatly increased speed and manoeuvrability. Both however are more than a match for any warship smaller than themself and will be the death of any civilian ship it chooses to rum its wrath on. Just as with battle barges —but on a smaller scale— Strike Cruisers are modified designs used by the Legiones Astartes, optimised and reconfigured for planetary assault and boarding actions in primacy over other roles. No cruiser of any type can hope to match a battleship in an open fight on equal terms, and so in any 'clash of the line' between fleets, they are used in a supporting role for their side's battleships and battle barges, their role primarily to use their speed to carry out flanking attacks, combine their firepower, and to harry and finish off wounded ships. Because of the flexibility of their hulls and their relatively smaller scale in comparison to a battleship —needing far less resources and material to construct as a mighty capital ship— cruiser-sized hulls are also used for a wide variety of rarer variants and specialised functions. As a result, minor classes such as siege monitors, attack carriers, pursuit cruisers, arvelasters, torpedo rams, claw-cruisers and shield-barques can all be found in the Armada lmperialis order of battle.

轻巡和重巡是中等大小的战舰，长度一般在4公里到6公里之间，船员数以千计。她们主要执行独立的军事任务，比如劫掠、前哨攻击、远距离巡逻和搜索摧毁任务，她们也在大型舰队和中队当中被用作“驮马”战舰。这两种主要的巡洋舰型号之间的主要区别并不在于尺寸大小（尽管情况可能也是如此），而是在于角色和特长。重巡，或者也被称为装甲巡洋舰，旨在增强火力和防御力（被特别强化过火力的该等级星舰可能被称为战斗巡洋舰）。轻巡则是牺牲了一些火力和防御力来极大地提升速度和机动性。不过，这两种战舰远非任何小于她们的舰船所能匹敌的，也能摧毁任何她们选择向其发泄怒火的民用船舰。打击巡洋舰就像战斗母舰一样是阿斯塔特军团使用的改良设计版本的舰船，只不过体积更小。她们进行了针对于行星突击和跳帮任务的优化和重新配置，对这两种功能的重视凌驾于其他功能之上。在平等的公开对战中，任何型号的巡洋舰都没有战胜一艘战列舰的希望，因此在任何舰队冲突当中，她们都被用于为己方的战列舰和战斗母舰提供支援，他们的任务主要是利用自己的速度发动侧翼进攻，集中他们的火力，不断进攻并摧毁受伤的舰船。由于她们船身的灵活性与她们相比于战列舰那更小体积，建造巡洋舰所需的资源和材料远少于建造强大的主力舰所需的物资，巡洋舰大小的船体也被用于制造种类繁多的稀有改型舰船和拥有特殊功能的舰船，结果就是人们能在帝国无敌舰队的战斗序列中发现次级种类的巡洋舰，比如攻城重炮舰，突击航母，追猎巡洋舰，射手巡洋舰，鱼雷撞角巡洋舰，利爪巡洋舰和盾卫巡洋舰都能被找到。

Noteworthy Classes: Armiger, Eclipse, Hades, Hellfire (Lance Cruiser), Siluria, Tetsujin, Crusade, Olympia (Strike Cruiser), Cardinal, Lunar, Bellerophon (Heavy Assult Cruiser).

值得注意的型号：佩章侍从级，暗淡级，冥王级，地狱火级（光矛巡洋舰），西罗瑞亚级，钢铁武士级（机仆：不用猜了，就是日语“铁人式”），奥林匹亚级（打击巡洋舰），红衣主教级，月级，柏勒洛丰级（重型突击巡洋舰）。

Escorts

护航舰

Escort is the catch-all designation for the smallest division of Warp-capable warships, seldom larger than 1 km or 2 km in length, and possessing only a fraction of the mass and raw power of a capital ship. In a clash of the line, the life expectancy of an escort is almost nil. The commonest escort class of the Great Crusade is the Frigate, a multipurpose armed vessel designed to largely balance firepower, defence and range. They are intended to be used both for independent operations of patrol and attack where a larger ship such as a cruiser is unwarranted, and in squadrons as outriders, guardians, piquet ships, and armed reconnaissance vessels. Other roles falling into this class include destroyers; small escorst，relatively heavily armed warships for their size, but commensurately ill-defended and with poor independent range designed either to attack larger ships and void stations in waves or expend themselves sacrificially to protect more important vessels and convoys (destroyer duty is therefore largely regarded as a death sentence), and Warp runners. This latter ship class is designed to incorporate only minimal crew, armament and life support, sacrificing their design almost entirely for speed and range of operation, being employed principally as spy vessels, blockade runners, couriers and explorers.

护航舰是最小的拥有亚空间航行能力的战舰的统称，长度几乎从不超过1或2千米，仅仅拥有主力舰质量和原始功率的一小部分。在舰队冲突当中，护航舰的预期寿命几乎为零。（机仆：双尾彗星老师…）。大远征时期最常见的护航舰种类是护卫舰，她是一种多用途武装船只，旨在很大程度上平衡火力、防御力和射程。她们旨在被用于两类行动：既能执行独立的巡逻任务，也能攻击那些不值得派遣诸如巡洋舰之类的大型战舰前去进攻的目标，她们也能在中队当中充当先驱，护卫，警戒船，以及武装侦查船。属于这个类别的其他舰船包括驱逐舰；她们是小型护航舰，不过装备了相比于自身的体积堪称厚重的装甲，但无论是去成波地攻击大型战舰和太空站，还是牺牲自己来保护更重要的船只和受护舰队，她们的防御力都相当贫弱，独立射程也不足（因此驱逐舰任务在很大程度上被视为死刑判决），她们还能被当作亚空间走私船。后一种船舰类型被设计成只包含最少的船员、弹药和生命维持设备，她们为了速度和操作范围几乎完全牺牲了自己的设计，主要被用作间谍船、破坏封锁（走私）船、信使船和探索船。

Noteworthy Classes: Sword, Thunderbolt (Heavy Frigate), Sceptre，Havoc, Baron, Harpy; Stalwart (Minekeeper), Cobra(Destroyer), Vigil (Siege Frigate), Spectre (Warp Runner), Thor (Ordinancer).

值得注意的型号：长剑级，雷霆级（重型护卫舰），节杖级，浩劫级，男爵级，女妖级，坚定级（布雷舰），眼镜蛇级（驱逐舰），守夜人级（攻城护卫舰），幽灵级（亚空间走私船），雷神级（训诫舰）