hh3节译:暗鸦守卫军团装甲部队

Though best known for the skills of its warriors in rapid assault, reconnaissance and infiltration protocols, the Raven Guard Legion possessed and utilised the full range of engines of war produced for the Legiones Astartes by the genius of the Mechanicum. The Raven Guard maintained entire battalions of heavy armour of all types, the Legion Armoury and Fleet Reserve held hundreds more, and individual companies were assigned individual war engines as and when required.

虽然暗鸦守卫军团最为著名的项目是军团战士们在快速突袭、侦查和渗透战术方面的技巧，但第他们也拥有并使用着机械神教的天才们为阿斯塔特军团生产的所有种类战争引擎。暗鸦守卫保有着所有型号的重型装甲载具构成的完整营队，军团武库和舰队储备中有保有了数百之众，当需要时每个连都会被分配各自的战争引擎。

The Raven Guard Legion deployed every heavy armour formation it could muster to Isstvan V, committing the majority to a wide flanking manoeuvre launched along the base of the Lerghan Ridge against Sons of Horus units guarding the extreme left flank of the Traitors’ lines. Entire wings of Javelin Attack Speeders and Skyhunter Jetbike squads roamed ahead of the slower moving tank companies, isolating enemy positions and harrying them mercilessly until the heavier units arrived to grind them into dust. When the Night Lords, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion and Word Bearers revealed their treachery upon the Urgall Depression, most of these formations were cut off from the bulk of the Legion and ambushed by Night Lords units as they attempted to fight their way back to their Primarch's side.

暗鸦守卫军团在伊斯特万五号部署了他们能集结起的所有重型装甲编队，他们主要负责沿着Lerghan山脉的基地发起侧翼机动作战，对抗守卫叛军阵线最左侧翼的荷鲁斯之子单位。多个完整的标枪速攻艇联队和天猎者机车小队们漫步在移动较慢的坦克连队前面，隔离敌人的阵地并毫不留情地不断攻击他们，直到重型单位抵达来将他们碾为灰尘。当午夜领主、钢铁勇士、阿尔法军团和怀言者在Urgall绝望平原露出自己叛徒的真面目时，多数重装编队都被与大半个军团隔离开了，而当他们试图杀出一条血路返回原体身边时，午夜领主部队伏击了他们。

Very few of the Raven Guard's heavier armoured formations were able to withdraw from the Dropsite Massacre, although those that did played a vital role in holding back the enemies' pursuit in its immediate aftermath. Later on, all but the lightest formations were disbanded and their crews re-assigned to fight on as infantry, the survival of every last Legionary deemed of far more importance to the future of the Legion than maintaining its vehicles.

只有极少数暗鸦守卫重装编队能够从登录点大屠杀中撤退，但这些部队确实在阻止敌人后续的追击中起了重要作用。后来，除了最轻型载具构成的编队，其他所有编队都解散，乘员们作为步兵被重新指派，对于军团的未来而言，让剩下的每位军团战士存活下来远比保存军团的载具重要的多。

Long after the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, it would be discovered that the Traitors recovered a large number of the vehicles left upon the black sands of the Urgall Depression and turned them against their erstwhile masters. Many also appear to have been crippled by Mechanicum war machines using ultra-high yield neutron weaponry so that, while the crews were slain by radiation deadly even to a superhuman Space Marine, the war engines themselves remained intact. Were it needed, this provides further evidence of the dark genius and far-reaching stratagems of the Warmaster.

在伊斯特万五号登录点大屠杀很久之后，人们发现叛军们回收了大量被遗弃在Urgall绝望平原黑色沙地上的载具，并用它们来对抗其之前的主人们。也有很多载具似乎被机械神教的战争机器用超高出力中子武器瘫痪了，这样一类，虽然乘员们会被到致命辐射杀死——那辐射对于拥有超人体魄的阿斯塔特们也是致命的，但战争引擎本身会保持完整无缺。如果需要的话，这将进一步证明战帅的黑暗天才和深远战略。