hh9节译：迅捷之怒与稳健利刃

As with all the Wings of the Dark Angels, the Ravenwing was intended to gather and focus the Legion's expertise within a singular battlefield art. In this case it was that of skirmish warfare, of the swift advance and sudden withdrawal, to engage the foe and frustrate its strategies rather than simply grind down its will to fight in a simple war of attrition. As such, the Ravenwing tended to focus on battlefield assets that complemented this style of warfare, with their ranks comprising the largest numbers of Land Speeders, aircraft and strike tanks in the First Legion, all scattered across the various Orders and Companies that formed the vast host of the Dark Angels. During the long years of the Great Crusade, the warriors of the Ravenwing served as experts in the field of swift war, called upon to advise the knight-praetors when their expertise was needed and to lead those units that best served their skills - only rarely would they be gathered together as a singular host. Yet, with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, it would be ever more common for the warriors of this Wing to be called upon to fight as a singular whole, often deployed to blunt the advance of more traditional Legion hosts or to deny ground to a larger enemy army without attempting to directly contest them, and resorting to spoiling attacks and swift raids to keep a superior force at bay.

就像黑暗天使军团中的所有翼军那样，鸦翼的目的也是聚集和集中使用军团在独定某种战场艺术上的专业技能。他们所进行的是一种小规模战争，使用快速前进和突然撤退的战术，目的是与敌人交战并破坏敌方战略，而非只是在简单的消耗战中磨练自己的意志。因此，鸦翼也倾向于集中使用（能够）补足此类战争风格的战场装备，他们是第一军团中兰德速攻艇、飞行器和突击坦克最多的部队，所有成员都分散在在了各种各样的骑士团和连队中——后两者组成了黑暗天使军团中那规模庞大的天军部队。在大远征的漫长岁月中，鸦翼战士们是快速战的专家，当军团需要他们的专业知识时，他们就会被召集起来，为骑士执政官建言献策，并且领导那些最能发挥此类技能的单位们作战——他们很少会作为单独的一支天军聚集到一起。不过，随着荷鲁斯叛乱爆发，鸦翼战士们被作为一个独立的整体召唤起来参战的情况也将会越来越常见。他们通常是被部署去削弱某些更为传统军团部队的优势，或者在不试图进行直接对抗的情况下阻碍更强大敌军部队的前进。他们也会依靠破坏性进攻和快速掠袭来牵制住敌军的优势部队。

During the Thramas Crusade, this gambit would be employed on a number of occasions with great success, with a number of worlds along the fringes of the Dark Angels' advance being denied to the Night Lords by the presence of small Ravenwing task forces. It became only natural that in the larger engagements of the crusade, at Sheol and Yaelis amongst others, that the Ravenwing continued to act as a unified force, ranging ahead of the main host to harry the Night Lords as they drew up their lines for battle and to discourage enemy forces from attempting flanking assaults of their own. It was a tactical convention that would survive the Thramas Crusade and continue throughout the Horus Heresy, and given the Ravenwing’s doctrine of limited war and hit-and-run strikes, it would see them survive Horus' rebellion with one of the largest and most cohesive forces still combat ready within the First Legion. What had begun as a quirk of the Horus Heresy's dire needs would become tradition during the Scouring that followed, seeing the Ravenwing become a force unto themselves in the new age of the Imperium that followed.

在萨拉马斯远征期间，这一策略让第一军团在很多情况中都取得了巨大成功，在位于黑暗天使军团前进路线边缘的诸多世界上，一支小规模鸦翼特遣队的出现就能使该世界拒绝（屈服于）午夜领主。在对于Sheol和Yaelis等世界的大规模远征作战中，鸦翼很自然地继续作为一支统一的部队行动，他们会冲到主力部队的前方来不断袭扰午夜领主部队，他们划出战线准备战斗，并阻止敌人从己方侧翼发动进攻。这种战术习俗在萨拉马斯远征中传续下来，并且被黑暗天使军团在整个荷鲁斯叛乱时期持续使用。考虑到鸦翼关于有限战争和游击进攻的信条，这种习俗将会见证这些信条与鸦翼——仍在第一军团中战斗的规模最大也最具凝聚力的部队之一，从荷鲁斯发动的叛乱中幸存下来。在之后的大清洗中，这种为了满足荷鲁斯叛乱时期的迫切需要而开始采用的奇怪安排变成了黑暗传统，它将见证鸦翼在之后到来的人类帝国新纪元中成为一支独立的力量。