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hh7节译:太空野狼军团组织结构

2020-10-27 21:21 作者:机兵苍熊式  | 我要投稿


When Leman Russ took over the VIth Legion, it adhered rigidly to the guidelines and dispositions laid down by the Principta Belicosa of the Imperium's High Command. This rule was clung to by the warriors of the Legion as an anchor against the disorder their own increasingly fractious character was sowing in their ranks. Enforced discipline was common and even executions in the field were not unknown in the VIth. With the rediscovery of Leman Russ and the cultural influence of Fenris which he imprinted on the Legion, these factors however rapidly fell by the wayside. The fury which lay within the Legion's heart was given form and discipline mastered by will, and this wellspring of savagery was channelled and directed in battle rather than left unfocused, providing a catharsis which purged the Legion of its selfdestructive tendencies and unified it under the Wolf King's banner. Both the Fenrisian way of warfare as adapted by Leman Russ and the natural tendencies of the Legion to want to close and get to grips with its foes at close quarters led to a rapid and shifting focus away from the generalist and combined arms approach advocated by the Principia Belicosa and towards tactics dependent on highly mobile shock infantry units, with heavier support elements maintained, but largely focussed in specialised detachments rather than as part of the general line of battle. The Space Wolves were conditioned to hold a near-suicidal disregard for danger and trained to exploit this to the fullest on the battlefield, pitting their courage and might where it would be most effective; in the very teeth of the foe, overwhelming opponents by sheer speed and ferocity of attack, both in hand- to-hand combat and in brutal short ranged fire fights. As time went on, their tactical dispositions shifted to better accommodate this preference, leading to the creation of unique shock units such as the “Grey Slayers”and 'Bloodied Claws', which gradually came to comprise the bulk of the core infantry of the Legion by the time of the Burning of Prospero.

当黎曼 鲁斯接手第六军团时,他们严格遵守帝国最高指挥部颁布的《基础军典》中写下的准则和规划。军团战士们坚持着这些规定,将其作为对抗当时正军团中的混乱状态的锚点——这种问题是由在第六军团中传播的阿斯塔特们日趋易怒性格引发的。(执行)强制纪律是常见情况,甚至战场处决也是存在于第六军团的。不过,由于黎曼 鲁斯的回归以及他铭刻在军团中的芬里斯文化的影响,这些因素很快就被淘汰掉了。盘踞在军团战士心中的暴怒被给予了意志掌控的形式和纪律,黎曼 鲁斯在战斗中引导和指挥这种野蛮的源头,而非置之不理,他提供了一种净化第六军团自我毁灭倾向的情感宣泄通道,让第六军团的战士们统一在狼王的战旗之下。黎曼 鲁斯改良过的芬里斯战争之道和第六军团想要接近敌人并与其展开近战的天然倾向导致第六军团的注意力迅速转移,不再注重基础军典所倡导的全面通才和复合式武器(配备)方法,而是转向依赖于保有重型支援单位的高度机动突击步兵部队的战术,但是(重型支援单位)主要集中于专业化的分遣队而非作为常规阵线部队的一部分。通过训练,太空野狼们对危险怀有近乎自杀式的无视,他们被训练在战场上充分利用这一点,并在最有效的地方发挥他们的勇气和力量;野狼们会在敌人的进攻据点上中以惊人的速度和凶猛的攻击压倒对手,即在徒手搏斗中,也是在残酷的近距离交火作战中。随着时间推移,他们的战术部署发生了变化以更好地适应这种偏好,导致了某些独一无二的突击单位例如“灰猎手”和“血爪”的创建,等到普罗斯佩罗之焚时,此类单位逐渐开始组成了第六军团的大部分核心步兵单位。

芬里斯

By the late Great Crusade era, the Space Wolves Legion had strongly deviated from the Principia Belicosa’s definition of the Legiones Astartes structure and organisation, although they could, if pressed, readily enunciate how each warrior would fit in such a structure should it be needed. At the macro level, the Legion consisted of thirteen 'Great Companies' designated by their number in the order of battle, with each nominally composed of a theoretical 10,000 Legiones Astartes, though in practice attrition and casualty rates meant this was never more than a notional figure. Below this strategic level, the Legion's host was now broken down into a shifting array of ad hoc formations either put together for a particular mission or beholden strongly to the personal authority of a particular company commander, and below them to a series of tributary sub-commanders, known variously as *Wolf Lord' (Jarl) or 'Claw Leader” (Thegn), regardless of their notional or accorded rank within the Imperiums order of battle. These warband-like forces —while each was part of one of the overarching Great Companies which comprised the Legion— were largely autonomous and heavily infantry-focussed. They often lacked certain specialised units and formations found in other Legions, and could range in size from between banalion to chapter strength in conventional terms, while below this, the more general terms of'Pack' or 'Claw' became an accepted descriptor of any small tactical unit, be it a single squad of warriors or a small combined taskforce. These arrangements could be confusing to outsiders with, for example, a particular Great Company having within it several “Jarls”, whose relative seniority or areas of command were far from clear to any but the Space Wolves.

在大远征后期,太空野狼军团已经严重偏离了基础军典对于阿斯塔特军团组织结构的定义,不过倘若被施压的话,他们也可以在需要时轻易地阐明每个战士如何适应这样的组织。太空野狼军团在宏观层面上由十三个根据其在战斗序列中的编号加以命名的“大连”组成,名义上每个大连都拥有理论上的10000名军团阿斯塔特战士,但在实际上第六军团的自然减员率和伤亡率意味着这他们的数量永远不会超过理论上的人数。在战略层面之下,军团的战群现在被拆分为专门编队组成的不断变化的战斗队列,他们能因为特定目标或者具体某位连队指挥官的个人权威而聚合在一起,在他们之下是一系列的附属次级指挥官,这些次级指挥官被不同地称为“狼主”(部落首领)或者“狼爪头领”(大领主)——不考虑他们在帝国战斗序列中名义上或被给予的军衔。这些类似战帮的部队(每支部队都是某个构成军团的综合大连的组成部分)在很大程度上是自主的,并且以步兵为主。他们通常缺乏其他军团中存在的某些专业化单位与编队,兵力介于常规的战斗营与战团之间;在这些部队之下,是以“狼爪”或“狼群”等统称作为可接受称呼的任何小型战术单位,这类单位是一支独立的军团战士小队或者一支小规模复合特遣队。这些安排可能会使局外人感到困惑,例如,某个特定的大连内部有多个“狼主”,除了太空野狼军团成员之外,其他军团的成员们很不清楚这些狼主们相应的资历和指挥领域。

The formation of the Great Companies themselves varied considerably, both as a result of their history and the preferences and dispositions of their commanders, who had much leeway in determining their composition. Of particular note was the First Great Company (or 'Onn' in the Fenrisian) which served as Leman Russ core of veterans, including his chosen elite, the Varagyr. The Seventh Great Company in contrast held the distinction of being the Landayvan —the destroyers and layers waste——and in this company were concentrated many of the Legions siege warfare and artillery assets, as well as those skilled in the use of such sanctioned weaponry as phosphex. It was also the home of the largest concentration of a particular sub-cult of the Fenrisian mythos centred around the wolf-spirit Morkai, a pseudo—deity of death and the dead. The Space Wolves who were attracted to this cult were said to be those who most 'felt the breath of the wolf in their bones' and within them the fiery passions of their brethren had chilled to a bleak killing frost and only the prospect of immediate bloodshed could bestir them with feeling once more. Many such warriors were drawn together to form the packs of the Black Cull, an extermination corps which also specialised in near-suicidal and all but unstoppable line breaker attacks, embracing the touch of death as one might a lost friend.

大连的编队自身也有很大差异,这是太空野狼军团历史与其指挥官的偏好和性情的共同结果,后者在决定他们部队组成的方面有很多余地。需要特别注意的是担任黎曼鲁斯的老兵核心都第一大连(或者说芬里斯语中的Onn),其中也包括原体挑选出的精锐:狼卫;第七大连则相反,他们享有担任“舞焰者”——毁灭者和废土制造者的荣誉,这个大连也集中了军团中的大量攻城装备和火炮,以及擅长使用诸如磷火之类被批准使用的武器的军团战士。第七大连也集中了最多的莫凯教徒:莫凯教派是一个围绕芬里斯神话中的狼神莫凯——亡者与死亡之(伪)神的特定次级教派。据说,被吸引到这个教派中的太空野狼战士们最能够“感受到他们骨血中的野狼之息”,在他们心中,他们的弟兄们那种炽烈激情已冷落为凄凉的霜冻,只有鲜血淋漓的前景才能再次使他们感到振奋。很多此类战士被从自己的狼群中挑选出来并组成黑色屠宰手的猎群(机仆:这群人的常见称呼是死誓群狼)——这是一支专门执行近乎自杀且几乎不可阻挡的阵线突破攻击的灭绝部队,他们会像拥抱一位失去的朋友那样去拥抱死亡的触摸。

死誓群狼
狼卫

Also of particular note within the Legion was the role played by the so-called 'Priests of Fenris'. This sealed chamber within the Legion embodied much of the special command functions provided by the separate Apothecarion, Librarius and Armourium in other Legions. They were suffused both with an aura of ritual and secrecy, for as well as the continuation of the Legions martial culture, the maintenance of its wargear and the preservation of its gene-seed, these “priests” also occupied the role of keepers of the Legion’s occluded history and superstitions, and served as the wardens of its secrets. The senior representatives of this varied priesthood, be they Priest of Iron, Caster of Runes or Speaker of the Dead, had a place of honour on the Einherjar, the Legions council of war, which advised their Primarch, and on which every Jarl and Thegn had a place, and where every warrior of the Space Wolves had the right to speak.

我们也要特别注意军团中所谓的“芬里斯牧师”担任的职责。军团中这个未知的机构体现出了许多特殊的指挥功能,这些功能在其他军团中被独立分配给了军团药研会(机仆:药剂师的组织)、军团智库和军团武库。他们充满了仪式和保密的气氛,也要负责传续军团的尚武文化、保养军团战争装备和保存军团的基因种子(机仆:狼牧师、铁牧师、符文牧师),这些牧师也要担任军团被遮蔽的历史和迷信的守护者以及军团秘密的守卫者。这些不同职位的芬里斯牧师的高级代表是钢铁牧师与符文法师(或者死者代言人),他们在英灵大殿——向原体提出建议的军团战争议会中享有一个荣誉位置,在英灵大殿中,每位狼主和狼爪头领都享有自己的位置,每位太空野狼战士都有权发言。

War Disposition

战争配置

At the time the order reached the Space Wolves Legion for the censure of the Thousand Sons, it was able to muster what is believed to have been roughly two-thirds of its active strength. This comprised some 75,000 Legiones Astartes assigned to the Prospero assault, with the estimated remaining 20,000-25,000 either scattered across various sub-fleets and taskforces beyond their masters immediate call, with a small contingent left to garrison Fenris in the Legions absence. This itself reflected the heavy degree of campaigning the Space Wolves had conducted in the preceding decades, having fallen in overall strength from about 130,000 after a series of actions, some of whose nature remains sealed. Its fleet is believed to have comprised some sixty capital vessels at this time, with perhaps four times this number of smaller strike craft and escort vessels. In particular, the Legion was disposed towards heavily armed and augmented frigate designs, which allowed for the long-range independent operations of small task forces. In contrast, its flagship by the time of the Heresy, the Hrafnkel, was one of the largest patterns from the Gloriana class frame, and configured both as a heavy battleship and capable of conducting independent planetkill operations.

人们相信当太空野狼军团受到前去申饬责罚千子军团的命令时,他们能够召集起大概三分之二的运转中的兵力。太空野狼的兵力中有75000名军团阿斯塔特被分配前去参加进攻普罗斯佩罗战役,而据估算,还有20000至25000名的剩余阿斯塔特分散在各支分遣舰队和特遣部队中,他们未能响应原体的紧急号召,还有一支在军团外出时负责卫戍芬里斯的小规模分遣队。这一事件本身就反映了太空野狼军团在过去几十年中进行的大规模战役的严重惨烈程度:经过一系列的行动之后,太空野狼军团的总体兵力从大约130000名阿斯塔特下降到普罗斯佩罗战役之前的水平,其中某些行动的性质至今都未解封。人们相信在此期间太空野狼军团舰队包含大约60艘主力舰,而小型突击艇和护卫舰船的数量或许是主力舰数量的四倍,野狼们尤其倾向于允许小规模特遣队执行长距离独立任务的带有重型装甲且增强过的护卫舰型号。但大叛乱时的太空野狼军团旗舰哈拉法卡尔号则恰恰相反,她是最大的荣光女王级战列舰之一,她既可以被配置为重型战列舰,又可以进行独立的行星登陆作战。


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