HH8节译：白疤军团指挥体系与战争配置

Command Hierarchy

指挥等级体系

Of all of the Legions, the White Scars maintained the most decentralised command structure, rivalled only by that of the Alpha Legion. While Jaghatai Khan remained the ultimate authority, the various Noyankhans, the commanders of the Hordes that made up the bulk of the Legion, exercised a remarkable amount of personal authority and most often operated independently of the Great Khan. Unlike many Legions, it was rare for the White Scars to assemble in forces numbering more than one or two Hordes——indeed, it was far more common for forces as small as one or more Brotherhoods to operate alone within any given war zone. Far more common was the attachment of smaller White Scars forces to the fleets of other Legions, though even in these situations the Khans of those gathered Brotherhoods retained independent command of their forces.

在所有军团中，白疤保有着最为分散的指挥结构，在这方面只有阿尔法军团才能与他们相匹敌。尽管察合台可汗在军团中保有着最终的权威，但那些构成军团主体的组织——部落的指挥官：各种各样的诺延汗们也行使着非凡的个人权力，并且通常独立于大汗之外采取行动。不同于许多军团，白疤很少集结起人数超过一或两个部落的兵力——事实上，远为常见的情况是：在任何特定战区中，都是一个或多个兄弟会这样的小规模部队在单独行动。而更为常见的情况是：规模更小的白疤部队会依附到其他军团的舰队，但哪怕是在这种情况中，这些聚集起来的兄弟会的可汗们也保留着对于自己部队的独立指挥权。

As a consequence of this style of leadership, the White Scars Legion had relatively few formal titles of rank in use. Authority flowed from the Great Khan, whose official title was Khagan, to the Noyan-khans that commanded the Hordes and from there to the individual Khans of each Brotherhood, with these three ranks forming the core of the Legion's command structure on the battlefield. In actuality, each Khan, regardless of his rank, was surrounded by a web of advisers and lieutenants to whom a measure of authority was invested, for the officers retained their posts due to the respect held for them by their followers as much as due to any official appointment. Among this circle of advisers, the chief position was often taken by one of the infamous Stormseers, upon whose prognostication much weight was placed by both the Khan and his warriors.

这一领导风格的结果，便是白疤军团使用的正式职衔相对稀少。大汗（官方头衔是汗王）将权力提供给那些指挥着部落的诺延汗们，诺延汗再将权力提供给指挥各个兄弟会的可汗们，这三个层级组成了战场上军团指挥结构的核心。事实上，无论他的军衔为何，每位可汗身边都围绕着一群顾问和副官，他们也被赋予了一定的权力。对于处在这些职位上的军官们，下属对他们保有与对任何官方任命的军官们同等的敬意。在这群顾问中，地位最重要的是著名的风暴先知们，可汗和战士们都非常重视他的预言。

Most Khans also nominated one among their Brotherhood as first officer, and heir to command should he fall. A position technically titled Kavkhan, though this was only rarely used in the field, the counsel of this first officer also weighed heavily in the command of the Brotherhood. Other officers of more specialised nature, such as the Tenri- khan that captained many of the void craft of the White Scars fleet or the Gan-khan that presided over the Legion's armouries, as well as veterans of established skill and honour, also held much sway with a wise Khan, and when included as a part of his Brotherhood or larger force, would be key to shaping his decisions.

大多数可汗都会在自己的兄弟会任命一位首席次官，当可汗战死后，首席次官就会接手指挥权。这个职位的头衔按确切意义来说是凯武汗，虽然他们在战场上很少（直接）指挥，但首席次官的建议对于兄弟会的指挥也举足轻重。而其他担任更为专业化职责的军官，比如指挥白疤舰队中大部分虚空舰船的天理汗或主管军团武库的铳炮汗，也都是拥有着公认的技艺与荣誉的老兵们。他们对一位英明的可汗有着重要的影响，当这些军官被纳为兄弟会或其他规模更大部队的一部分时，他们将是影响可汗决策的关键。

War Disposition

战争部署

The White Scars were never considered to be among the larger of the Legiones Astartes,partly due to the tendency of its separate detachments to operate individually and the relatively low level of recruitment conducted by the Legion. In its early years, before the rediscovery of Jaghatai Khan, the Legion numbered around 80,000 warriors. By the later years of the Great Crusade, after the return of Jaghatai Khan, this number had risen to around 95,000 warriors. This left the Legion as one of the smallest of the Legiones Astartes, although slightly larger than Corax's Raven Guard and Vulkan's Salamanders, as well as one of the most widely spread on a strategic level. Of all of the Legions, only the Iron Warriors had more of its number attached to fleets and garrison posts than the White Scars. During the Great Crusade, and for much of the Horus Heresy,the exact size of the Vth Legion was often difficult to ascertain, due to the lax attitude many of its commanders held towards the filing of accurate and regular reports with the Divisio Militaris. Those numbers available to us in these latter years are mainly drawn from the personal journals of various Khans and other officers of the Legion, and were not generally known in those last few years before Horus declared war on his father. As such, many of the Imperium's commanders often believed the White Scars to be a much larger force than it actually was, a fiction mostly attributed to the tendency of the Legion's various detachments to move from war zone to war zone as they willed, and the often confusing heraldry used by many of the Brotherhoods.

白疤军团从未被视作过大型军团，这部分是由于他们派出独立分遣队单独行动的倾向，以及相对较低的征召水平。在尚未重新与察合台可汗重逢的早年岁月中，军团人数大约为80000名战士；在察合台可汗回归之后，这一数字增长到95000。这让白色伤疤位列规模最小的阿斯塔特军团之一，仅略微大于克拉克斯的暗鸦守卫军团与伏尔甘的火蜥蜴军团，而且他们也是在战略层面上分散最广的军团之一。在所有军团中，只有钢铁勇士在隶属于舰队的分队与驻军哨站的数量上超过了白疤。在大远征时期与荷鲁斯叛乱的大部分时期，第五军团的确切规模通常都是难以确定的，因为该军团中的许多指挥官对于向军务厅定期提交准确报告持松懈态度。我们在近些年得到的可用数据主要提取自军团中的各种可汗与其他军官们的私人日志，而且在荷鲁斯向他父亲宣战前的最后几年中，该数字也并非广为人知。因此，大部分帝国指挥官通常相信：白疤军团的部队规模比实际上要大得多；军团的各个分队按照自己的意愿从一个战场转移到另一个战场的行为，以及许多兄弟会使用的令人困惑的纹章是人们产生这种假想主要原因。

During the final stages of the Great Crusade, in the years just before the Isstvan massacres, the White Scars were spread across the galaxy in several dozen war zones, often in detachments of only a few Brotherhoods. At Ullanor, Horus called upon the Great Khan and his warriors, gathering several full Hordes of the Vth Legion and their Primarch to his side 一 the largest concentration of the Legion at a single war zone since the Kolarne Circle campaign. Following the fighting at Ullanor, those Hordes that had been present, along with several others previously assigned to fighting in the southern fringes of the Great Crusade, were committed to the Chondax Cleansing and were later involved in the Alpha Legion's treacherous assault against the White Scars. This left at least three Hordes unaccounted for in the first years of the Horus Heresy, most assigned to fleets along the north-eastern edge of the Great Crusade and far removed from contact with their Primarch. It appears that most of the Traitor detachments in this region were under orders to avoid engaging remnant White Scars forces, and in at least one incident, a Legiones Astartes force in White Scars colours is known to have fought alongside a Sons of Horus battle force in campaigns targeting Blood Angels' and Ultramarines, holdouts along the Eastern Fringe. Following the Chondax Engagement, there are few concrete facts regarding the main body of the White Scars and their movements are little known in the years that preceded the Battle for Terra. 

在大远征的最后阶段，伊斯特万大屠杀的仅仅数年之前，白疤军团分散到了银河各处的数十个战区中，而且通常是仅由数个兄弟会组成的分遣队。在乌兰诺战役中，荷鲁斯号召大汗与他的战士们参战，他的身边聚集起了第五军团的数个完整部落和他们的原体——自从Kolarne星环会战之后，这是白疤军团在单个战区中的最大规模部队集结。在乌兰诺的战事结束后，参战的部落与其他数个在之前就被派往大远征南部边境作战的部落参与了对Chondax星系的清洗行动，他们之后被卷入了阿尔法军团对白疤军团发动的背叛进攻。这导致至少三个部落在荷鲁斯叛乱初期下落不明，他们大多被派往大远征东北边境的舰队，与他们的原体距离遥远。而且似乎该地区的大部分叛军分队都被命令避免与残余的白疤部队交战，而且在至少一次事件中，已知有一支喷涂着白疤配色的阿斯塔特军团部队与一支荷鲁斯之子的战斗部队共同参与了针对圣血天使与极限战士的战役，后者坚守东部边境，拒不投降。在Chondax战役之后，关于白疤军团主体的确切事实几乎不为人知，他们在泰拉之战之前几年里的行动鲜为人知。