In the aftermath of the XIIth Legion's participation in the great betrayal at the Isstvan System, the World Eaters accelerated their course along a trajectory begun years before, one that would ultimately see their Primarch damned and his Legionaries transformed into debased savages bearing scant resemblance to the champions of?humanity the Emperor had intended them to be. As a consequence of this change, the distribution and deployment of certain units within the Legion altered as they fell from use, replaced in the line by other, often more direct, unsubtle and brutal war machines. The World Eaters armoured reserve is an example of this phenomenon and indicative of the shifting tactical doctrines (or perhaps the increasing abandonment of?such) prevalent in the Legion throughout the period between Isstvan V and the end of the Shadow Crusade.

當(dāng)?shù)谑妶F在伊斯特萬星系參加了大叛亂之后，吞世者軍團沿著幾年前便開始的軌跡加速前進——這條軌跡最終將會見證第十二軍團的戰(zhàn)士和他們那該死的原體安格隆的轉(zhuǎn)變成與帝皇預(yù)想中的人類勇士毫無相似之處的卑賤野蠻人。作為這一變化的后果，軍團中某些單位的分布和部署因停止中斷或使用其他更為直接、粗笨且殘酷的戰(zhàn)爭機器而發(fā)生了變化。吞世者軍團的裝甲儲備是這種現(xiàn)象的一個例子，表明了從伊斯特萬五號大屠殺到暗影遠征結(jié)束的時間段中流行于軍團中的不斷變化的戰(zhàn)術(shù)信條（或者也許是對于這種信條的逐漸放棄）。

As World Eaters battle doctrines became ever more focused on direct infantry assaults, it remained nonetheless crucial to maintain a strong reserve of?armoured vehicles that could be mobilised to support such massed assaults. The Legion fief world of Bodt was the base of one such reserve of armoured units, its vast armoured silos host to many hundreds of?Legion war machines of every possible class, as well as a cadre of reserve crew-masters able to train new crews and to operate the machines if called upon at short notice to mount a defence of their base, as happened when the city of Tredecimmia was assaulted by the forces of Autek Mor.

隨著吞世者的戰(zhàn)斗信條變得愈發(fā)注重于直接的步兵進攻，盡管如此，保有可以動員起來支持這種大規(guī)模進攻的大量裝甲載具儲備仍然至關(guān)重要。軍團的封地世界Bodt就是一個裝甲單位儲備基地，它龐大的裝甲倉庫容納了數(shù)以百計的各種可能型號的軍團戰(zhàn)爭機器，而且配備了一支后備車長核心部隊，他們能夠訓(xùn)練新成員，如果在短時間內(nèi)要求他們對基地進行防御的話，他們也能駕駛載具——就是奧塔克 摩爾的部隊進攻Tredecimmia城時所發(fā)生的那樣。

The Tredecimmia armoured reserve was host to a range of war machines, the oldest of which had served in the latter days of?the Unification Wars and which bore sub-unit icons and battle honours known only to the longest serving of Legion veterans. In contrast, the reserve also contained vehicles which had only recently been entered into the Legion's strength and which as yet bore few if any identifying marks. Even as the Horus Heresy ground onwards and savagery and chaos seized the entire galaxy, the XIIth Legion maintained a constant flow of machines and materiel from such Traitor-aligned Forge Worlds as Sarum and M'Pandex, ensuring that its arsenals were as potent as those of any other Legion.

Tredecimmia的裝甲預(yù)備隊擁有各種各樣的戰(zhàn)爭機械，既有在統(tǒng)一戰(zhàn)爭后期就已經(jīng)服役的最為古老的戰(zhàn)爭引擎，也有擁有著那些只有最為資深的軍團老兵們才知道的次級單位圖標(biāo)和戰(zhàn)斗榮譽的輝煌戰(zhàn)車。相反，預(yù)備隊也同樣保有了那些最近才加入軍團、而且到目前為止幾乎沒有任何識別標(biāo)記的載具。哪怕是隨著荷魯斯叛亂不斷推進，野蠻暴行和混亂狀態(tài)遍布銀河之時，諸如Sarum和M'Pandex之類與叛軍結(jié)盟的鑄造世界也為第十二軍團源源不斷地提供著機械和軍備，確保第十二軍團的兵工廠就像其他所有軍團的那樣強力。

With the coming of the Red Talon to Bodt however, the entire reserve held there was destroyed, even though the crew-master cadre that manned its vehicles mounted a fearsome and determined defence that, though they were doomed, reaped a heavy toll on the Loyalist invaders.

不過，隨著紅爪部隊來到Bodt，留在當(dāng)?shù)氐恼ьA(yù)備隊都被摧毀了，即使操縱著其載具的車長核心部隊發(fā)起可怕而堅決的防御戰(zhàn)。不過雖然他們被毀滅了，但他們還是讓忠誠派部隊付出了沉重的代價。