HH3节译：铁与火——法尔海战参战双方的舰队

While it is clearly the case that both fleets engaged at Phall were nominally equal in nature, both being comprised of recognised Legiones Astartes and Armada Imperialis vessels, with the war fleet of the Iron Warriors having an initial numeric advantage (perhaps as high as two to one by some estimates), this does not tell the whole story. Each and every fleet of the Great Crusade had its own idiosyncrasies of manufacture and configuration, and never more so than in the case of the fleets of the Legiones Astartes.

显然，在法尔交战的两支舰队的性质在名义上是同等的，双方都是由可被辨认出的阿斯塔特军团战舰和帝国海军舰船组成的，同时钢铁勇士军团在初期拥有数量上的优势（根据某些评估，钢铁勇士舰船数或许是帝国之拳的两倍），但这无法讲述出故事的全貌。大远征中的每一支舰队在其制造和配置上都有着独特的特质，而阿斯塔特军团的舰队更是如此。

By the end of the Great Crusade, the temperament, access to resources and common use of each Space Marine Legion had worked significant divergence on the warships at their command. In case of point the two Legions in combat at Phall were notable in the following ways: firstly, the Iron Warriors by temperament valued durability in their warships, and configured them accordingly. This was, of course, the abiding factor needed by a warship during a planetary assault where manoeuvre as a means of defence against ground fire is all but impracticable if an assault is to be maintained. Accordingly, many of their war vessels, particularly their battle barges, were far more heavily armoured than their counterpart classes of other Legions, but also often possessed less sustained ability for acceleration and rapid manoeuvre due to their increased mass and the frame-stresses involved. This was perhaps a factor that the fortunes of war was to turn against them to their disadvantage at Phall, given Poluxs unorthodox tactics. Although conversely at the later Battle of Anvillus Sollex against the Traitor fleet, this same factor was to prove the tipping point in their favour and contribute to the annihilation of the Loyalist forces there.

在大远征结束时，每个星际战士军团的秉性、资源获取（方式）和常用（战术）都令他们麾下的战舰产生了明显的差异。就这一点而言，参与法尔海战的两个军团在如下方面值得我们注意：首先，在其秉性的影响下，钢铁勇士们重视飞船的耐用性并进行了相应配置。当然，在行星进攻行动中，战舰需要具备持久性的特征——因为在此类行动中，如果要进行持续攻击的话，以舰船机动来防御地面火力几乎是行不通的。因此，相比于其他军团中相同级别的舰船，钢铁勇士的许多战争舰船尤其是战列母舰的装甲都更为厚重，但由质量增加和（由此）涉及到的船体框架应力，这些飞船缺乏持续加速和快速机动的能力。而在法尔海战中，战争的机遇或许就将这一因素转变为了钢铁勇士舰队的劣势——再考虑的泼拉克斯那非常规的战术的话。不过与其相反的是，在之后的Anvillus Sollex之战中，同样的因素被证明是对叛军舰队有利的转折点，并且导致了忠诚派舰队在那场战斗中被毁灭。

In the case of the fleet of the Imperial Fists, it had rightly been known before the Horus Heresy as both the strongest and also the most diverse in terms of class and pattern of all the Legiones Astartes fleets. It also had the advantage of being maintained and reinforced at the heart of the Imperium, and therefore was masterfully provided for and featured many of the most powerful patterns of weaponry and equipment available, including a stockpile of deadly vortex-warhead torpedoes directly assigned from the protected reserves on Terra and issued at the authority of the Sigillite. The disposition and complement of the Retribution fleet at Phall, selected specifically to operate at long range and at speed, with the strong strategic possibility of having to carry out hunter-killer operations to run down a fleeing enemy, was composed of many of the Imperial Fists' finest and fastest warships. This war, particularly in the case of the mid-tiers of warship, featured a proportionally higher number of fast cruiser and battlecruiser patterns compared to the Iron Warriors fleet; many of which were purpose built for void combat superiority and armed predominately with long range ship-to-ship lance batteries in preference of standard multi-purpose armaments. It is important to note, however, in consideration of these factors, that in no way were they alone or in combination enough to decide the outcome of the battle, but no doubt had an effect as the conflict unfolded.

至于帝国之拳舰队，早在荷鲁斯叛乱之前，人们以充分的理由将之看作所有阿斯塔特军团舰队中最为强大，以及类型最为多样的一支。而且该舰队还拥有在帝国核心区域得到维护和强化的优势，因此这些舰船也被熟练地提供了大量最为强悍的可用武器与装备——而且它们也以此为特色，其中就包括一批致命的漩涡弹头鱼雷——这是武器是在掌印者的授权下，由泰拉上受保护的储备库中直接调拨给帝国之拳。法尔星系中惩戒舰队的配置和补给也是经过了专门选择，目的在于远程和快速作战；而且考虑到惩戒舰队在战略上有很大可能要执行追捕逃跑敌舰的猎杀任务，其中也包含了帝国之拳舰队中很多最快也最优秀的战舰。在这场战争中，相比于钢铁勇士舰队，帝国之拳舰队中快速巡洋舰和战列巡洋舰的占比更高——在中层战舰中尤为如此；其中很多舰船也都是为了在虚空战中获取优势而建造的，它们主要装备了舰对舰远程光矛炮塔，而非标准的多用途武器。不过我们也要指出很重要的一点：在考虑上述这些因素时，无论是其中单独的某一项还是它们的组合，都不足以决定战斗结果；但毫无疑问的是，随着冲突的展开，这些因素都产生了影响。