《死亡之城》规则书节译：Polia之战
THE SECOND SPHERE EXPANSION
第二次天穹扩张
When Hive Fleet Kraken invaded Ultima Segmentum, Imperial forces from across the length of the Eastern Fringe were diverted to meet this new threat. Sensing an opportunity to enlarge their empire while the lmperium was thus distracted, the Tau wasted no time in annexing a series of Imperial worlds along their border. Nimbosa was the most important of these worlds.
当克拉肯虫巢舰队入侵极限星域时，远东边境各处的帝国部队都被调配去应对这一新的威胁。在人类帝国的注意力被泰伦异形分散开的同时，钛星人也察觉到了扩大自己帝国疆域的机会，它们立刻吞并了位于其边境上的一系列人类帝国世界。在这些世界当中，宁波撒世界最为重要。
With the majority of Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy units redeployed to fight the Tyranid threat, the Tau landed a vast invasion force on Nimbosa. Commander Brightsword, the leader of the Tau, set about the systematic extermination of the populace. The only Imperial Guard force able to resist them was the Vostroyan Firstborn IX, who made their stand in the factory city of Polia. Serving under Graf Toschenko, the Firstborn knew that against such an overwhelmingly large invasion force their only hope was to hold out against the Tau long enough for reinforcements to arrive: something that could take weeks if not months to happen.
由于大部分帝国卫队和帝国海军部队都被重新部署去对抗泰伦异形威胁，一支庞大的钛星人入侵部队登陆在了宁波撒世界上。钛星人部队的领袖——亮剑指挥官开始系统性地灭绝当地人口。唯一能够抵抗钛星人的帝国卫军部队是沃斯托尼亚长子军第9团，他们坚守在工厂城市Polia中。在托斯琴科伯爵的指挥下，长子军们明白：要对抗如此压倒性的庞大入侵部队，他们唯一的希望就是拖住钛星人足够长的时间，直到援军抵达，但这一过程会需要几周甚至几个月的时间。
The manufactoria complex was a vast industrial zone with buildings that reached high into the skies. It consisted of scores of machine workshops, a labyrinthine warren of Administratum archives spanning six city blocks, an Ecclesiarchal cathedral and the great manufactorum itself.
工厂复合体是一片巨大的工业区域，其中的建筑物高耸入云。它包含数十个机械车间、一座横跨六个街区的错综复杂的政务部档案馆、一间国教大教堂和巨大的制造工厂本身。
The Vostroyans wasted no time in digging in, establishing a series of strategic strongpoints from which they could hold off the Tau. Internal walls were knocked down to allow easy movement and industrial machinery was used to heap wreckage into makeshift barricades that blocked off streets. Several buildings were carefully rigged with booby traps while a few that were deemed indefensible had anything of use scavenged from within before engineers loaded them with enough explosives to collapse them when the time came.
沃斯托尼亚人们迅速挖掘了战壕，并且建立起一系列让他们可以拖延住钛星人的据点。内墙被拆除以方便卫军们进行移动，他们还用工业机械将废墟残骸堆成了封锁街道的临时路障。许多建筑中都被小心翼翼地安装了诡雷，少数些被认为是不可防御的建筑则被从内部清理了任何可用的资源，之后工兵们在其中填入了足量的爆炸物，时间一到便能将其炸塌。
Ammunition was stockpiled in three key locations. and the great manufactoria was reinforced with flak board and support struts and a vox caster network linked it to the other positions. Toschenko and his officers used the manufactoria as their command centre and it wasn't long before the Vostroyans began referring it as Toschenko's 'Fortress'.
弹药被储存在了三个主要地点，卫军们还用碎料板和支撑架加固了巨大的制造工厂，并用音频广播网络将之与其他位置连接起来。托斯琴科和他的军官们将制造工厂用作指挥中心，不久之后沃斯托尼亚人们就开始称之为托斯琴科的“要塞”。
BRIGHTSWORD STRIKES
亮剑出击
When Brightsword's force arrived he found the Imperial troops ready and waiting. Other, less impetuous Tau Commanders would have offered the enemy a chance to surrender. but Brightsword, a student of the aggressive Farsight, had no such desire and with aggression characteristic of the Vior'la he launched the attack. Shoals of Devilfish led the advance while Sky Rays and Hammerheads pounded the forward Imperial positions. Pathfinder teams rappelled down from their hovering transports and struggled through bloody firefights to secure the rooftops from the Vostroyans.
当亮剑的部队抵达时，它发现人类帝国的部队已经完成备战并正在等待。其他不那么冲动鲁莽的钛星人指挥官会给予敌军一个投降的机会，但作为远见这位富于进攻性的指挥官的学生，亮剑没有这种意愿，它以Vior'la家门世界住民那种进攻好斗的性格发动了进攻。成群的魔鬼鱼运输车一马当先，同时天光炮艇和锤头鲨炮艇也猛烈轰炸人类帝国的阵地。寻路者小队从盘旋的运输车上用绳索降下，并在血腥的交火中奋力保护屋顶免受沃斯托尼亚人的攻击。
With a foothold secured. Brightsword hoped to bombard the Imperial Guard into submission, but the walls of the cathedral and Toschenko's 'Fortress' were too robust for the weapons he had on the ground. After several days of bombardment the Imperial forces showed no signs of surrender so, using the barrage as cover Brightsword implemented a variation of the Kauyon 'patient hunter' philosophy and sent teams of Kroot forward to flush out the Guardsmen. The Kroot were met with a hail of lasgun fire that tore into their ranks slowing their advance. But unerringly accurate shooting from Pathfinders armed with rail rifles silenced the Imperial guns and eventually the Kroot fought their way inside the cathedral. Once inside. the savage Kroot carnivore squads hacked into the Vostroyan defenders, devouring their victims as they went.
在确立了立足点之后，亮剑希望用轰炸令帝国卫队屈服，但大教堂的墙壁和托斯琴科的“要塞”过于坚固，钛星人地面上的武器无法将之攻破。在数天的轰炸之后，帝国部队仍未显示出投降的迹象，于是在炮火覆盖的掩护下，亮剑采用了空育信条中“耐心猎手”哲学的改编战术，派出克鲁特小队去驱逐卫军士兵们。沃斯托尼亚人冰雹般密集的光枪射击减缓了克鲁特人的行动速度，但装备着磁轨步枪的寻路者们用精准无误的射击令帝国部队的枪炮安静了下来，克鲁特人最终进入了大教堂。一经踏入其中，这些野蛮的克鲁特噬肉者小队便潜入了沃斯托尼亚守军阵地，一边前进一边吞食受害者的尸体。
COUNTER-ATTACK
反击
Toschenko realised that his enemy was systematically cutting off one point of defence after another and eradicating it. There was no chance of victory unless he launched a counter-attack. Across the Vostroyan positions the order was given to rise up and assault the Tau. More than two thousand Vostroyans burst from their cover in the factory and charged down the cratered streets to the cathedral where their comrades were being exterminated. vengeful they stormed the building, only to find the Kroot already in full flight, retreating in the face of their fury.
托斯琴科意识到敌人正在系统性地切断并消灭一个又一个防御点位。除非反击反击，否则他就毫无胜算。沃斯托尼亚人阵地的各处都被下达了命令：起身冲锋，进攻钛星人。超过两百名沃斯托尼亚人冲出了自己在工厂中的掩体，沿着坑坑洼洼的街道奔向了大教堂——他们身处此地的战友兄弟们正在遭到屠杀。满怀复仇怒火的卫军们如风暴般冲入建筑中，却发现克鲁特人已经全体逃离了——面对着他们的愤怒，异形们撤退了。
Buoyed by this apparent success, Toschenko and his men, backed by what tanks remained, moved forward to engage several Tau units holding position in the machine workshops. As the Guardsmen stormed down the open streets they encountered only light resistance and their vanguard was only metres away from cover when Brightsword sprung his trap. Crisis battlesuits on rooftops fired down at the Guardsmen in the wide streets below. tanks were blasted apart as seeker missiles guided by Pathfinder teams targeted their weaker rear armour and concealed Stealth teams armed with burst cannons blew entire infantry companies apart.
这一明显的胜利鼓舞了托斯琴科和他的下属们，他们以剩余的坦克作为后援，前去进攻机械车间中的数个被钛星人控制的阵地。在冲过开阔的街道时，卫军士兵们仅遭到了轻微抵抗，而当他们的前锋部队离掩体只有数米远时，亮剑突然跳出了自己设下的陷阱。屋顶上的危机战斗服向着下方宽阔街道上的卫军士兵们开火，寻路者小队指引着寻路者导弹瞄准帝国坦克脆弱的后侧装甲来将其炸碎，装备了脉冲爆裂炮的偷袭小队也隐藏起来，（伺机）炸死整个连队的步兵。
TOSCHENKO'S STAND
托斯琴科的坚守
At the forefront of the Vostroyan advance, Toschenko's command squad was caught in the open and cut down in a blistering hail of fire. Rising, bloody and injured, from the dirt Graf Toschenko snatched up the regimental banner from the dead hands of its bearer and exhorted his men to fight to the last. As his remaining warriors rallied to him a monumental battle erupted. The Tau Fire Warriors, sensing their foe was beaten surged forth and lent pulse rifle fire to the fury of the battle and soon a swirling melee erupted in the streets.
在沃斯托尼亚人攻势的最前线，托斯琴科的指挥小队被困在开阔地带，一阵猛烈的炮火击倒了他们。虽然受了伤且满身是血，但托斯琴科伯爵还是从土中站起身来，他从掌旗官的遗体手中一把夺过团旗，并告诫下属们要奋战到底。随着剩余的战士们聚集在指挥官的身边，他们与钛星人之间爆发一场不朽的战斗。火战士们察觉到那些被打败的敌人冲了上来，它们用脉冲枪射击这些狂怒的卫军战士，街道上很快便爆发了一场残酷的混战。
Hundreds of Tau warriors died as the Imperial Guard hacked into them with bayonets and chainswords but in the end the Vostroyans had no chance. Leading his bodyguard to the front line. Commander Brightsword soared above his army and in a devastating volley killed Toschenko and all hope of Imperial victory.
帝国卫军们们用刺刀和链锯剑劈砍刺杀敌军，杀死了数百名火战士，但沃斯托尼亚人们最终还是失去了机会。亮剑指挥官率领部队来到前线，他从部队上方快速飞过，用一阵毁灭性的齐射杀死了托斯琴科与人类帝国取胜的全部希望。
When the Imperium was finally able to begin reconquering Nimbosa. CasteIlan Folker of the Black Templars despatched a force to reconnoitre the last known position of Toschenko and the Vostroyan Firstborn. Brother Lodhuvicus reported that the ruins of Polia were strewn with the remains of thousands of Imperial Guard, their weapons and wargear untouched. Within the shattered buildings of Polia itself, the Tau left no presence.
当人类帝国最终能够开始再次征服宁波撒世界时，黑色圣堂战团的弗科尔堡主派出一支部队前去侦察托斯琴科与沃斯托尼亚长子军已知的最后位置。罗德威库斯修士报告称：Polia的废墟上散落着数千具帝国卫军的遗骸，他们的武器和战斗装备原封未动；钛星人在Polia破碎的建筑物内未留下任何痕迹。
