hh2节译：午夜领主军团装甲烈爪

The Legiones Astartes Night Lords had access to the full range of war machines utilised by the Emperor's armies during the Great Crusade, and even though the Legion favoured terror tactics and infiltration over set piece battles, it still made use of such mighty vehicles. 

在大远征时期，午夜领主阿斯塔特军团可以接触到帝皇的军队使用的所有战争机器，虽然第八军团偏好恐惧战术和渗透作战胜过开展固定战斗，但他们仍然会使用强大的载具。

Because each of the Legion's companies tended to operate largely independently, most of the Night Lords' vehicles were held at the company level,  squadrons operating in direct support of the company's squads. A small number of companies within the Legion choose to operate exclusively as armoured formations, often acting on the direct orders of the Primarch or the Legion command cadre when several companies were fielded together as a battalion or chapter and more substantial armoured support was required.

因为午夜领主军团的每个连队在很大程度上都倾向于独立运作，所以军团的大多数载具都由各连队保有，装甲中队在连队当中小队的直接支援下行动。军团中只有少数连队选择作为纯粹的装甲编队进行作战，它们按照原体或者军团指挥核心的直接命令采取行动，而在这种时候，多个连队会组建成为一个营或者一个战团，参战部队也需要更为大量的装甲支援。

The Caradara Armour Claw is one such company-sized armoured unit whose reputation had spread beyond its Legion before their treachery. The formation's masters have perfected a form of armoured combat which mirrors that utilised by the Legion as a whole. Striking when possible from the darkness of dusk or dawn  , the Caradara assaulted the enemy where they were weakest, rampaging through rear zones in order to sever lines of communication, and resupply and isolate individual concentrations of enemy troops. Having done so, the Caradara destroyed its targets at its leisure according to the proclivities of individual squadron or vehicle commanders. The Caradara were often noted to favour using prow-mounted dozer blades to bury enemy troops in their own trenches, while others gained unholy satisfaction from overrunning helpless defenders and grinding their bodies beneath the tracks of their armoured vehicles. Needless to say, few defences stood long against such brutal assaults.

卡莱达拉装甲烈爪就是一支这种连队规模的装甲部队，在他们叛乱之前，他们的名声就传播到了第八军团之外。这支编队的主人完善了装甲战斗的形式，这种形式反映了午夜领主军团在整体上使用的装甲战术。卡莱达拉装甲烈爪尽可能从黄昏或黎明的黑暗中出击，他们会袭击敌人最为脆弱的部位，横冲直撞穿过后方以切断通信线路和补给，并且把独立集中的敌军部队分割孤立开来（机仆：意思应该就是蝙蝠装甲部队会直插敌后，打乱敌人阵型，把敌人分割成若干个彼此孤立的部分，然后逐个歼灭）。做完这一切之后，卡莱达拉烈爪会根据各个中队或车辆指挥官的嗜好随意地摧毁目标，他们经常被记录到偏好使用前叉推土铲将敌军活埋在他们自己的战壕中，而其他午夜领主装甲部队成员们会穿过无助的防御者，并在装甲车的履带下碾碎他们的身体的过程中获得不洁的满足感。不用说，很少有人能长期抵御如此残酷的攻击。