LAND RAIDER CRUSADER?

十字軍型蘭德掠奪者

The Land Raider Crusader is designed to utilise the potent all-round armour of the Land Raider against the heaviest enemy defences and fortifications. It is employed to smash into enemy lines before disgorging Space Marines into the heart of a fortified position as its weapons unleash a torrent of fire in support. It is a brutal tactic, well suited to the Space Marines' role as peerless shock warriors?

十字軍型蘭德掠奪者的設計理念，就是要利用強悍的全面裝甲來對抗最為厚重的敵軍防御設施和要塞工事。它被用于撞穿敵軍的防線，然后將星際戰(zhàn)士們投放到敵軍堅固陣地的中心，同時由車載武器釋放出的猛烈火力進行支援。這種殘忍的戰(zhàn)術非常適合星際戰(zhàn)士們作為無與倫比震擊士兵的角色。

The Land Raider Crusader variant was first developed and deployed during the Jerulas Crusade by the Black Templars Chapter and as such is a comparatively recent addition to the canon of Land Raider variants. The Jerulas Crusade involved a gruelling campaign of sieges of hive cities and the Black Templars invariably led the final assaults when the bombardment lifted.To aid their assault troops, the Chapters Techmarines mounted hurricane pattern bolters in each sponson and twin-linked assault cannon on the hull. It was an immediate success and as news of the Black Templars' magnificent victories on Jerulas spread, other Chapters requested the re-armament protocols and re-consecration rituals utilised although to this day, the Black Templars still make wider use of the Crusader than any other Chapter?

十字軍型蘭德掠奪者最初是由黑色圣堂戰(zhàn)團在Jerulas遠征期間開發(fā)并使用的，因此它是一種相對新穎的改型。Jerulas遠征包括了一場對于巢城的攻城游擊戰(zhàn)，當轟炸結束后，黑色圣堂騎士們便一如既往地領導了最后的進攻。為了協助己方的突擊部隊，黑色圣堂技術軍士便在兩側炮座上安裝了颶風型爆彈槍，并在車身上加裝了雙聯突擊炮。這種設計立刻取得了成功，而且隨著黑色圣堂在Jerulas遠征中大獲全勝的消息傳播開，其他戰(zhàn)團也要求執(zhí)行改良軍備協議和重新祝圣儀式，不過時至今日，相比于其他任何戰(zhàn)團，黑色圣堂對于十字軍型蘭德掠奪者的使用也更為廣泛。

As word of the Crusader spread, a delegation of senior tech-adepts arrived from Mars demanding an audience with the High Marshal, intent upon investigating the modification, it is likely that the Tech-Priests feared a repetition of earlier instances of details of new patterns being deliberately withheld from their Order. In 763 M39, after long debate and testing, the Crusader pattern was given Chapter Approved status by the Fabricator-General of the Acleptus Mechanicus and was officially recognised in the canon of machine lore. Even before its official sanction though, the Crusader pattern had found extensive use in the armouries of numerous Space Marine Chapters?

隨著Jerulas遠征聲名遠播，一支由高階技術神甫組成的代表團從火星趕來，他們要求與大元帥會面，意圖調查這次對于蘭德掠奪者的改造——之前曾出現過發(fā)明者向機械教團刻意隱瞞新型號載具細節(jié)（信息）的情況，技術神甫們可能是擔心此類事件的重演。在763 M39，經過漫長的討論和測試之后，十字軍型蘭德掠奪者被機械修會鑄造將軍批準供應給星際戰(zhàn)士戰(zhàn)團，其在機械知識領域的身份也得到了正式認可。但早在獲得正式批準之前，很多戰(zhàn)團就已經在大量使用該型號載具了。

The Crusader differs from more common Land Raider patterns in several ways. Both sponsons replace the standard lascannon configuration with hurricane pattern bolters — six boltguns slaved to a single mount. Coupled with this are twin-linked assault cannon in place of the hull-mounted heavy bolters to provide a formidable degree of suppressing firepower as the Crusader closes on its target. The final addition is a conversion of the standard turret ring pintle-mount to allow a multi-melta to be fitted. The multemelta was not included on the first Crusaders, but hard-won experience taught the Black Templars that the Land Raider often needed heavy firepower to force open breaches in defences and to clear barricades or anti-tank obstacles as it broke into a position?

十字軍型與更常見的蘭德掠奪者型號之間有著多處不同。安裝在兩側炮座上的標準型激光炮被替換為了颶風型爆彈槍——該武器是將六把（普通）爆彈槍安裝在了單個基座上。為了與之配合，雙聯突擊炮也取代了原本安裝在車體上的重型爆彈槍，用于在十字軍型接近目標的同時提供可怖的壓制火力。最后一項改造則是調整標準化炮塔的環(huán)狀武器萬用托架，令其適合安裝多管熱熔炮。雖然初代的十字軍型蘭德掠奪者并不包括多管熱熔炮，但來之不易的經驗告訴黑色圣堂：當蘭德掠奪者突入陣地時，其通常需要用強大火力來攻破防御工事，并清理掉路障街壘或反坦克阻礙柵欄。

The other main adaptation regards the Crusader is its increased transport capacity. The removal of the large generators required by the lascannon creates space for an additional six Space Marines.This gives the Crusader the largest transport capacity of any Land Raider variant — sixteen power armoured Space Marines or eight Terminators.

十字軍型的另一個主要特點是提升了運輸能力。因為移除了（驅動）激光炮所需的大型發(fā)電機，車艙中被增加了額外六名星際戰(zhàn)士的空間。所以十字軍型擁有各種型號蘭德掠奪者中最強的運載力——十六名身穿動力甲的星際戰(zhàn)士或八名終結者。