Salamanders Legion Transport Vehicles

Prizing short range engagements and the deployment of crushing force against their enemies'?strongholds, the Salamanders Legion maintained an extensive arsenal of transport vehicles. These were assigned to units on an ad-hoc basis within the battle companies and often re-organised to suit the nature of a given campaign. As with all of the Salamanders' wargear, these vehicles were constructed and maintained to an exacting standard, often far surpassing the performance levels listed in their STC specifications and embellished as works of craftsmanship in their own right.

火蜥蜴軍團(tuán)極其重視近距離交戰(zhàn)和對(duì)敵人據(jù)點(diǎn)部署毀滅性力量，他們保有了大量的運(yùn)輸載具庫存。這些載具會(huì)被指派到戰(zhàn)斗連隊(duì)內(nèi)的臨時(shí)單位，而且通常會(huì)進(jìn)行重組以適合給定連隊(duì)的特性。就像火蜥蜴軍團(tuán)所有的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)裝備那樣，這些載具也是以嚴(yán)苛的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)進(jìn)行建造和維護(hù)的。它們通常遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超過其STC規(guī)范中列出的性能水平，并且由火蜥蜴軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士們用自己的工藝進(jìn)行裝飾。

Though deployed in great numbers to the battlefields of Isstvan V, almost none of the Legion's auxiliary vehicles are known to have escaped. A notable exception is the Thunderhawk Ohidoran?which blasted a path through squadrons of Traitor Storm Eagles and Primaris-Lightnings in order to land amidst the Loyalist Legion's medicae encampment. There it was loaded past maximum capacity with the most serious of the injured. Once loaded, Ohidoran took flight once again, under the control of the wounded Raven Guard Legionary Kirhane, who had lost his right leg below the knee to a Traitor autocannon salvo and been evacuated to the medicae encampment before switching places with the slain pilot, and managed to dock with the cruiser Warlock. Despite taking serious damage, the Warlock was one of the few Legion vessels that managed to evade the Traitor fleet and escape the Isstvan system, reaching an Imperial held outpost nine months later carrying thirty-eight wounded Salamanders, seventeen Raven Guard and three Iron Hands from the massacre.

盡管伊斯特萬五號(hào)戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上被部署了大量的軍團(tuán)輔助載具，但據(jù)我們所知，這些載具中幾乎沒有逃出生天。一個(gè)著名的例外是雷鷹炮艇“奧希多蘭”號(hào)，它在叛軍的風(fēng)暴鷹炮艇和早期型號(hào)雷電戰(zhàn)機(jī)中隊(duì)間沖出了一條通路，目的是在忠誠(chéng)軍團(tuán)的醫(yī)療營(yíng)地進(jìn)行降落——這里收容了傷情最嚴(yán)重的傷員，其數(shù)量已經(jīng)超過了營(yíng)地的最大容量。重傷員們一經(jīng)登船，奧希多蘭號(hào)便在受傷的暗鴉守衛(wèi)軍團(tuán)戰(zhàn)士基爾哈恩的控制下再次起飛——基爾哈恩被叛軍的自動(dòng)炮集中，因此而失去了右腿膝蓋以下的部分；他被疏散到了醫(yī)療營(yíng)地中，并在之后代替奧希多蘭號(hào)犧牲的飛行員駕駛炮艇。這艘炮艇成功登上了巡洋艦“魔術(shù)師號(hào)”。盡管受損嚴(yán)重，但魔術(shù)師號(hào)是少數(shù)成功擺脫叛軍艦隊(duì)并逃出伊斯特萬星系的軍團(tuán)艦船之一。九個(gè)月后，魔術(shù)師號(hào)抵達(dá)了一座帝國(guó)控制下的前哨，船上搭載了38名受傷的火蜥蜴戰(zhàn)士、17名暗鴉守衛(wèi)戰(zhàn)士和3名鋼鐵之手戰(zhàn)士——他們都是逃離自大屠殺的幸存者。