hh1节译：荷鲁斯之子军团组织结构

First as the Luna Wolves and later as the Sons of Horus, the Legion kept much of their outward structure as it had existed since the wars for Terran and Solar unity, which had adhered closely to the Terran pattern laid down by the Officio Militaris before the unification with the Primarchs. The smallest formation within the 'Logos Terra Militia' and therefore within the Luna Wolves was the squad. This consisted of a group of Luna Wolves under the command of a sergeant. Squads varied widely in both size and specialisation, with the majority of units ranging between 10 and 20 Space Marines within the XVIth Legion. Conversely very specialised squads, such as reconnaissance units, or those that might have suffered heavy casualties, might only consist of a handful of Space Marines in active service.

第十六军团最早被称为影月苍狼，后来被称为荷鲁斯之子，他们保留了自己的许多外部结构，因为这些组织结构从统一泰拉和太阳系的战争时就存在了，在和原体重聚之前，十六军团就一直紧密地遵循着由军务庭制定的泰拉组织模式。在“泰拉军团”当中，规模最小的编队是小队，因此在影月苍狼军团里也是如此。一个小队包含一群阿斯塔特，他们由一名阿斯塔特军士指挥。小队的规模和专长多种多样，在第16军团内部，大多数小队的规模在10到20名阿斯塔特之间。相反，非常专业化的小队，比如侦查兵小队，或者那些遭受过严重损失的小队，可能只包含少数现役的阿斯塔特。

The specialities and equipment of squads in the Luna Wolves included all of those generally found in other Legions, including those designated Destroyer and Seeker units, shunned by some in lesser quantities. They also maintained considerable resources in terms of armour and vehicles, with tithed industrial worlds they had been brought into compliance and good relations with the Mechanicum ensuring a steady supply of munitions and materiels for the Legion, which spent such coin readily. Ever the generalist and pragmatist Horus, upon his reconnection with his Legion, is thought to have adopted new squad formations having seen their effectiveness in other Legions. For example, it is noticeable that until the Lactrical Onslaught the number of shield- equipped Bleacher squads was relatively low in the XVIlh Legion. The contribution of such units amongst Imperial Fists forces cannot have escaped his notice. After the annihilation of the Lactrical, the number of such squads in the ranks of the Luna Wolves rose noticeably. Other anecdotal evidence of this adaptability and willingness to embrace new weapons of warfare can be found in Horus' vocal backing of the Tactical Dreadnought Armour project, with the result that his Legion was one of the first and most widely equipped with Terminator armour and at the forefront of the development of tactics for its use in assaults.

影月苍狼军团的小队包含那些在其他军团常见的装备和专长，也包含那些特定的毁灭者和寻路者单位，但数量较少。他们也保有数量可观的装甲部队和载具，而且第十六军团会在归顺于他们的工业世界征收什一税，他们也与机械神教保持这良好的关系，这确保第十六军团能得到稳定的弹药和军备供应，而这就迅速消耗了如此之多的资源。在荷鲁斯与自己的军团重聚时，人们认为他这样一位全才和实用主义者在第十六军团中采用的新的小队编组——他已经在其他军团看到了这些新编组的效率。例如，很明显直到Lactrical 强攻战役时，第十六军团配备了盾牌的攻城小队的数量相对较少，不过，荷鲁斯注意到了帝国之拳部队中此类小队做出的贡献。在摧毁了Lactrical，此类小队在影月苍狼军团中的数量明显增加。对于荷鲁斯这种欣然接受新的战争武器的适应性和意愿，还有其他的轶事证据，人们可以在荷鲁斯对于战术无畏动力甲计划直言不讳的支持中发现这些证据，结果就是影月苍狼是最早而且是最大规模装备终结者动力甲的军团之一，而且第十六军团走在了在突击行动中使用终结者动力甲的战术发展前沿。

If Horus and his Legion showed a preference for a particular squad formation it was towards the Tactical squad. Squads configured in this form within the Sons of Horus outnumbered all other squad types combined throughout the Great Crusade. Horus remarked on several occasions that there were few challenges of war that could not be met by, or did not require, the use of such units. The presence of Tactical-type squads designed to be held in reserve and unleashed once a weakness in an enemy line had been identified, trained in fire saturation and carrying additional close combat weaponry for use in overrunning enemy positions——the so called Despoiler squads— shows again the dominance of the Tactical squad in Horus' tactical thinking. Such was the effectiveness of this subdivided tactic that its use was copied in several different Legionst such as the White Scars and Iron Warriors, who fielded Despoiler squads of their own.

如果说荷鲁斯和他的军团偏好某一种具体的小队编组的话，那就是战术小队。在整场大远征当中，荷鲁斯之子军团中以这种形式进行配置的小队的数量超过了所有其他小队类型数量的总和。荷鲁斯曾多次指出，很少有战争挑战不需要使用这种部队进行解决，也很少有挑战不能被这些部队解决。战术类型小队的存在是为了保留预备部队以防万一，并在识别出敌人阵线中的弱点后派出这些小队前去进攻。他们在枪林弹雨中经受训练，并且会携带用于攻占敌人阵地的额外的近战武器——他们就是所谓的劫掠者小队，这也再次显示了战术小队在荷鲁斯战术思维中的主导地位。这种细分的战术（配置）非常有效，以至于多个不同的军团也模仿了这种战术（配置）的使用，比如白色伤疤和钢铁勇士军团也配备了自己的劫掠者小队。

The heart of the Sons of Horus Legion was the Company as the principal military division. Made up of a grouping of squads under the leadership of a captain, the Company was the base currency of campaigns and battles. There was no fixed strength for a Company within the Sons of Horus. While other Legions codified and enforced strict limits on the size of similar formations, this was not the case amongst the Sons of Horus, which had begun in a more regimented form, but had become increasingly ad hoc in structure and disposition over time.

荷鲁斯之子的核心是作为主要军事部分的连队。连队由一组（多个）小队构成，领导他们的是一名连长。连队是战斗与战役的基础通用单位，在荷鲁斯之子军团中，连队的兵力并不固定。而其他军团对于自己那些类似于连队的组织编队制定并实施严格的规模限制，但荷鲁斯之子们并非如此：一开始时荷鲁斯之子的连队还有更为严格的组织形式，但随着时间的推移，他们在结构和配置上变得越来越特别。

Company strengths as small as 36 and as large as 972 were recorded by datafactors during the Legion's action against the Dasim Patrimony, for example.

比如，根据数据记录，在第十六军团对抗Dasim教权国的行动中，连队兵力多则972人，少则36人。

The configuration of squad types within a Company varied as widely as its strength . Some comprised almost exclusively Tactical squads with a few support . Others were an eclectic mix based on the varied requirements of campaigns and the will of Horus. By way of example, the 17th Company, known as the Hesperus Guard had a standard strength of 205 at the time of the bombing of Issrvan III. Tactical squads made up half this strength numerically (with the Legion placing in general great importance on the use of Tactical squads in every deployment). The rest consisted of two veteran units, three reconnaissance units, a heavy support squad and multiple batteries of support weaponry .The 1st Company showed even greater variation. Small in number it contained two distinct sub formations: the Justaerin Terminator squads formed one part and the Catulan Reaver assault squads the other. Both sported the black armour worn only by this elite company and each was led by a captain under the overall command of the First Captain. Used in combination the 1st Company exemplified Horus' predilection for precise and overwhelming attacks against strategic targets.

一个连队内部的小队类型的配置随着其兵力的变化而变化。有些连队几乎完全由战术小队构成，只有少数支援单位；其他的则是基于各种不同的战役需求与荷鲁斯个人意愿的折衷组合。例如，被称为昏星守卫的第十七连队在伊斯特万三号遭到轰炸时就拥有205名阿斯塔特的标准兵力。战术小队（的人数）占据了该连队兵力的半数（在每一次部署中，第十六军团都极其重视对于战术小队的使用），另一半连队兵力由两个老兵小队、三个侦查小队、一个重武器支援小队和多个支援武器平台（机仆：轻剑武器平台之类的）组成。第一连队甚至表现出了更明显的变化，该连队人数不多，但包含了两个不同的分队：一个是加斯特林终结者小队，另一个是卡图兰掠夺者小队。两者都穿着仅**英连队使用的黑色动力甲，他们各由一名连长率领，而在他们之上，第一连长（机仆：顿哥好像是第一连长兼任了杰斯特林队长——前任第一连长死得比较匆忙）总揽全局。

In other Legions a Company would form part of further layers of organisation, variously referred to as battalions, cohorts, chapters, regiments or by any number of other titles. Horus seems to have preferred to avoid this extra layer of fixed organisation, which eroded over time in the Legion and was largely academic by the time of their transition to the Sons of Horus. Instead of a formal structure he would group Companies and individual units together as required for the execution of a particular campaign. The commander of such a formation would usually be a senior captain. If the formation was especially larger than other captains，it would take on the role of lieutenants to the overall commander until the completion of the campaign. These formations rarely had formal titles, but the Sons of Horus commonly referred to formations intended to prosecute a rapid assault as 'Spearlips'.  In eschewing formality and fixed structure above the basic level of the Company, Horus demonstrated his pragmatism and his preference for waging war with judged precision.

在其他阿斯塔特军团中，连队会成为层级更高的组织的组成部分——这些更高级组织的称呼不一而足：营、大队、战团、团以及其他很多名称。荷鲁斯似乎倾向于避免在固定好的组织结构中增加额外的层级，这些额外层级随着时间流逝逐渐在军团中消失，而且当第十六军团转变为荷鲁斯之子时，它们基本只存在于理论中。荷鲁斯不会将军团组织成普通的结构，相反，他会根据具体战役的执行要求把连队们和独立单位们组织起来。这样一支部队的指挥官被称为高级连长。倘若这样一支部队比其他连队大得多，他们的指挥官就会担任副官的角色，指挥全局直到战役结束。这些部队几乎没有正式称呼，不过荷鲁斯之子们通常将负责执行快速突袭任务的部队称为“矛尖”。为了避免连队基本层级以上的僵化形式和固定结构，荷鲁斯表现出了他的务实态度和依靠精确判断发动战争的偏好。

Within the Sons of Horus squads also commonly had their own honorific or epithetic titles rather than simple numberarion: Illuminators Prime, Death Makers, Jerroks Reavers, the First Sons, and similar, while some were named for the sergeant or chieftain that led them where their leaders own reputation was strong enough alone. Many of these titles betrayed the culture of Cthonian gang honours and the tradition of reputation and internecine warfare from which they sprung. This had over the years grown steadily stronger within the rank and file of the Legion's intake. One avatar of this increasing influence was the late re-emergence of Cthonian gang-sigils graven into a particular Space Marine's armour recording notable kills and deeds, as well as to which Company they belonged, a practice which accelerated rapidly after the Legion had transitioned into its identity as the Sons of Horus. This transition marked not so much a new open brutality in the Legion, but a factor that had always been there and had become more visible as the Legion's panoply finally began to shrug off much of the influence of Mother Terra. The white of the Luna Wolves turned sea-green, then darkened further to a murky verdigris green-black as the Sons of Horus further cast off the disciplined Terran traditions of warfare and erred in pride and growling malice towards the dark heart of Cthonia, and its traditions of gang-fiefdom, blood- pride and merciless, incessant conflict.

在荷鲁斯之子军团中，小队们通常也拥有自己的荣誉性或者形容性的称号：首席启眀者，致死者，Jerroks掠夺者，第一子嗣，以及类似名称，而有些小队则用领导他们的军士或者首领（机仆：其实也可以翻译成酋长，不过首领比较有土匪范儿）（的名字）来命名——因为这些军士或首领自身的名声足够响亮。这些名称中的很多都显露出了克苏尼亚匪帮所遵守的文化，以及由此产生的声誉和内部战争的传统。多年以来，这一现象在军团纳入人员的军衔等级与文件档案中稳步上升。这种持续增长的影响的一个体现就是克苏尼亚的帮派纹章重新出现并且被雕刻在了特定星际战士的动力甲上，用于记录击杀(数)和个人事迹以及他们所属的连队。当第十六军团身份转变为荷鲁斯之子后，这种行为快速增加。这一转变与其说是标志着军团中新的公开暴行，不如说是这一因素一直都存在，随着军团的全副装备终于开始摆脱了母星泰拉的大部分影响，这一因素变得更为明显了。影月苍狼的白色转变为海洋绿色，而随着荷鲁斯之子们继续摒弃掉训练有素的泰拉式战争传统，他们的涂装颜色也继续变暗，成为黑绿色，如同混浊的铜绿，同时，第十六军团也因克苏尼亚那黑暗的（文化习俗）核心、帮派领地传统（机仆：抢地盘？）、血腥的骄傲感和无情且持续不断的冲突而沉浸于傲慢当中，军团充斥着暴力。

Legion Command Hierarchy

军团指挥等级结构

As with all Legions Horus' command over his own Legion was absolute. Beneath Horus were his captains, beneath them were the unit sergeants, and where a formation of squads came together for a purpose, the informal rank of'Chieftain' was given to the sergeant granted field command authority—a matter not always of seniority, but rather selection of the best or most suited for the task at hand; an approach which fined well with the Legions pragmaric and sometimes impulsive approach to warfare.

和所有阿斯塔特军团一样，荷鲁斯对自己军团拥有绝对的指挥权。荷鲁斯之下是他的连长们，连长之下是军士，而当小队们为了某个目的而集结起来形成某支编队之后，被给予了战场指挥权限的军士会被授予“首领”这一非正式军衔——这种情况并非总是资历的问题，而是要选择最适合手头任务的人；这是一种与军团（平时）务实但有时也会冲动的作战方式相得益彰的组织方法。

Beneath them were the battle-brorhers of the Sons of Horus .This simple hierarchy belied the truth of matters when applied in practice within the Sons of Horus. Within each rank prestige and personal reputation counted for much within the brotherhood of Space Marines. There were distinctions between those who had fought with the Legion for longer, between those who had fought in different campaigns, between those who had received certain honours, and between ordinary squads and those who formed a captain's honour guard.

在他们之下就是荷鲁斯之子的战斗兄弟们。在荷鲁斯之子的实践中，这种简单的等级制度掩盖了事物的真相。在每一级军衔中，声望和个人声誉在星际战士的兄弟情谊中都非常重要。在那些和军团奋战了更长时间的人之间、参与了不同战役的人之间、获得了某些荣誉的人之间以及那些普通小队和那些组成连长荣誉卫队的人都是有区别的。