IA2节译：十字军型兰德掠夺者

LAND RAIDER CRUSADER 

十字军型兰德掠夺者

The Land Raider Crusader is designed to utilise the potent all-round armour of the Land Raider against the heaviest enemy defences and fortifications. It is employed to smash into enemy lines before disgorging Space Marines into the heart of a fortified position as its weapons unleash a torrent of fire in support. It is a brutal tactic, well suited to the Space Marines' role as peerless shock warriors 

十字军型兰德掠夺者的设计理念，就是要利用强悍的全面装甲来对抗最为厚重的敌军防御设施和要塞工事。它被用于撞穿敌军的防线，然后将星际战士们投放到敌军坚固阵地的中心，同时由车载武器释放出的猛烈火力进行支援。这种残忍的战术非常适合星际战士们作为无与伦比震击士兵的角色。

The Land Raider Crusader variant was first developed and deployed during the Jerulas Crusade by the Black Templars Chapter and as such is a comparatively recent addition to the canon of Land Raider variants. The Jerulas Crusade involved a gruelling campaign of sieges of hive cities and the Black Templars invariably led the final assaults when the bombardment lifted.To aid their assault troops, the Chapters Techmarines mounted hurricane pattern bolters in each sponson and twin-linked assault cannon on the hull. It was an immediate success and as news of the Black Templars' magnificent victories on Jerulas spread, other Chapters requested the re-armament protocols and re-consecration rituals utilised although to this day, the Black Templars still make wider use of the Crusader than any other Chapter 

十字军型兰德掠夺者最初是由黑色圣堂战团在Jerulas远征期间开发并使用的，因此它是一种相对新颖的改型。Jerulas远征包括了一场对于巢城的攻城游击战，当轰炸结束后，黑色圣堂骑士们便一如既往地领导了最后的进攻。为了协助己方的突击部队，黑色圣堂技术军士便在两侧炮座上安装了飓风型爆弹枪，并在车身上加装了双联突击炮。这种设计立刻取得了成功，而且随着黑色圣堂在Jerulas远征中大获全胜的消息传播开，其他战团也要求执行改良军备协议和重新祝圣仪式，不过时至今日，相比于其他任何战团，黑色圣堂对于十字军型兰德掠夺者的使用也更为广泛。

As word of the Crusader spread, a delegation of senior tech-adepts arrived from Mars demanding an audience with the High Marshal, intent upon investigating the modification, it is likely that the Tech-Priests feared a repetition of earlier instances of details of new patterns being deliberately withheld from their Order. In 763 M39, after long debate and testing, the Crusader pattern was given Chapter Approved status by the Fabricator-General of the Acleptus Mechanicus and was officially recognised in the canon of machine lore. Even before its official sanction though, the Crusader pattern had found extensive use in the armouries of numerous Space Marine Chapters 

随着Jerulas远征声名远播，一支由高阶技术神甫组成的代表团从火星赶来，他们要求与大元帅会面，意图调查这次对于兰德掠夺者的改造——之前曾出现过发明者向机械教团刻意隐瞒新型号载具细节（信息）的情况，技术神甫们可能是担心此类事件的重演。在763 M39，经过漫长的讨论和测试之后，十字军型兰德掠夺者被机械修会铸造将军批准供应给星际战士战团，其在机械知识领域的身份也得到了正式认可。但早在获得正式批准之前，很多战团就已经在大量使用该型号载具了。

The Crusader differs from more common Land Raider patterns in several ways. Both sponsons replace the standard lascannon configuration with hurricane pattern bolters — six boltguns slaved to a single mount. Coupled with this are twin-linked assault cannon in place of the hull-mounted heavy bolters to provide a formidable degree of suppressing firepower as the Crusader closes on its target. The final addition is a conversion of the standard turret ring pintle-mount to allow a multi-melta to be fitted. The multemelta was not included on the first Crusaders, but hard-won experience taught the Black Templars that the Land Raider often needed heavy firepower to force open breaches in defences and to clear barricades or anti-tank obstacles as it broke into a position 

十字军型与更常见的兰德掠夺者型号之间有着多处不同。安装在两侧炮座上的标准型激光炮被替换为了飓风型爆弹枪——该武器是将六把（普通）爆弹枪安装在了单个基座上。为了与之配合，双联突击炮也取代了原本安装在车体上的重型爆弹枪，用于在十字军型接近目标的同时提供可怖的压制火力。最后一项改造则是调整标准化炮塔的环状武器万用托架，令其适合安装多管热熔炮。虽然初代的十字军型兰德掠夺者并不包括多管热熔炮，但来之不易的经验告诉黑色圣堂：当兰德掠夺者突入阵地时，其通常需要用强大火力来攻破防御工事，并清理掉路障街垒或反坦克阻碍栅栏。

The other main adaptation regards the Crusader is its increased transport capacity. The removal of the large generators required by the lascannon creates space for an additional six Space Marines.This gives the Crusader the largest transport capacity of any Land Raider variant — sixteen power armoured Space Marines or eight Terminators.

十字军型的另一个主要特点是提升了运输能力。因为移除了（驱动）激光炮所需的大型发电机，车舱中被增加了额外六名星际战士的空间。所以十字军型拥有各种型号兰德掠夺者中最强的运载力——十六名身穿动力甲的星际战士或八名终结者。