Command Hierarchy

指揮等級體系

Of all of?the Legions, the White Scars maintained the most decentralised command structure, rivalled only by that of?the Alpha Legion. While Jaghatai Khan remained the ultimate authority, the various Noyankhans, the commanders of the Hordes that made up the bulk of the Legion, exercised a remarkable amount of personal authority and most often operated independently?of?the Great Khan. Unlike many Legions, it was rare for the White Scars to assemble in forces numbering more than one or two Hordes——indeed, it was far more common for forces as small as one or more Brotherhoods to operate alone within any given war zone. Far more common was the attachment of smaller White Scars forces to the fleets of other Legions, though even in these situations the Khans of those gathered Brotherhoods retained independent command of?their forces.

在所有軍團中，白疤保有著最為分散的指揮結構，在這方面只有阿爾法軍團才能與他們相匹敵。盡管察合臺可汗在軍團中保有著最終的權威，但那些構成軍團主體的組織——部落的指揮官：各種各樣的諾延汗們也行使著非凡的個人權力，并且通常獨立于大汗之外采取行動。不同于許多軍團，白疤很少集結起人數(shù)超過一或兩個部落的兵力——事實上，遠為常見的情況是：在任何特定戰(zhàn)區(qū)中，都是一個或多個兄弟會這樣的小規(guī)模部隊在單獨行動。而更為常見的情況是：規(guī)模更小的白疤部隊會依附到其他軍團的艦隊，但哪怕是在這種情況中，這些聚集起來的兄弟會的可汗們也保留著對于自己部隊的獨立指揮權。

As a consequence of this style of?leadership, the White Scars Legion had relatively few formal titles of rank in use. Authority flowed from the Great Khan, whose official title was Khagan, to the Noyan-khans that commanded the Hordes and from there to the individual Khans of each Brotherhood, with these three ranks forming the core of?the Legion's command structure on the battlefield. In actuality, each Khan, regardless of his rank, was surrounded by a web of?advisers and lieutenants to whom a measure of authority was invested, for the officers retained their posts due to the respect held for them by their followers as much as due to any official appointment. Among this circle of?advisers, the chief position was often taken by one of the infamous Stormseers, upon whose prognostication much weight was placed by both the Khan and his warriors.

這一領導風格的結果，便是白疤軍團使用的正式職銜相對稀少。大汗（官方頭銜是汗王）將權力提供給那些指揮著部落的諾延汗們，諾延汗再將權力提供給指揮各個兄弟會的可汗們，這三個層級組成了戰(zhàn)場上軍團指揮結構的核心。事實上，無論他的軍銜為何，每位可汗身邊都圍繞著一群顧問和副官，他們也被賦予了一定的權力。對于處在這些職位上的軍官們，下屬對他們保有與對任何官方任命的軍官們同等的敬意。在這群顧問中，地位最重要的是著名的風暴先知們，可汗和戰(zhàn)士們都非常重視他的預言。

Most?Khans also nominated one among their Brotherhood as first officer, and heir to command should he fall. A position technically titled Kavkhan, though this was only?rarely used in the field, the counsel of this first officer also weighed heavily in the command of the Brotherhood. Other officers of more specialised nature, such as the Tenri- khan that captained many of?the void craft of the White Scars?fleet or the Gan-khan that presided over the Legion's armouries, as well as veterans of established skill and honour, also held much sway with a wise Khan, and when included as a part of his Brotherhood or larger force, would be key to shaping his decisions.

大多數(shù)可汗都會在自己的兄弟會任命一位首席次官，當可汗戰(zhàn)死后，首席次官就會接手指揮權。這個職位的頭銜按確切意義來說是凱武汗，雖然他們在戰(zhàn)場上很少（直接）指揮，但首席次官的建議對于兄弟會的指揮也舉足輕重。而其他擔任更為專業(yè)化職責的軍官，比如指揮白疤艦隊中大部分虛空艦船的天理汗或主管軍團武庫的銃炮汗，也都是擁有著公認的技藝與榮譽的老兵們。他們對一位英明的可汗有著重要的影響，當這些軍官被納為兄弟會或其他規(guī)模更大部隊的一部分時，他們將是影響可汗決策的關鍵。

War Disposition

戰(zhàn)爭部署

The White Scars were never considered to be among the larger of the Legiones Astartes,partly due to the tendency of?its separate detachments to operate individually and the relatively low level of recruitment conducted by the Legion. In its early years, before the rediscovery of Jaghatai Khan, the Legion numbered around 80,000 warriors. By the later years of the Great Crusade, after the return of?Jaghatai Khan, this number had risen to around 95,000 warriors. This left the Legion as one of the smallest of the Legiones Astartes, although slightly larger than Corax's Raven Guard and Vulkan's Salamanders, as well as one of the most widely spread on a strategic level. Of all of the Legions, only the Iron Warriors had more of its number attached to fleets and garrison posts than the White Scars. During the Great Crusade, and for much of?the Horus Heresy,the exact size of the Vth Legion was often difficult to ascertain, due to the lax attitude many of its commanders held towards the filing of accurate and regular reports with the Divisio Militaris. Those numbers available to us in these latter years are mainly drawn from the personal journals of various Khans and other officers of the Legion, and were not generally known in those last few years before Horus declared war on his father. As such, many of the Imperium's commanders often believed the White Scars to be a much larger force than it actually was, a fiction mostly attributed to the tendency of?the Legion's various detachments to move from war zone to war zone as they willed, and the often confusing heraldry used by many of?the Brotherhoods.

白疤軍團從未被視作過大型軍團，這部分是由于他們派出獨立分遣隊單獨行動的傾向，以及相對較低的征召水平。在尚未重新與察合臺可汗重逢的早年歲月中，軍團人數(shù)大約為80000名戰(zhàn)士；在察合臺可汗回歸之后，這一數(shù)字增長到95000。這讓白色傷疤位列規(guī)模最小的阿斯塔特軍團之一，僅略微大于克拉克斯的暗鴉守衛(wèi)軍團與伏爾甘的火蜥蜴軍團，而且他們也是在戰(zhàn)略層面上分散最廣的軍團之一。在所有軍團中，只有鋼鐵勇士在隸屬于艦隊的分隊與駐軍哨站的數(shù)量上超過了白疤。在大遠征時期與荷魯斯叛亂的大部分時期，第五軍團的確切規(guī)模通常都是難以確定的，因為該軍團中的許多指揮官對于向軍務廳定期提交準確報告持松懈態(tài)度。我們在近些年得到的可用數(shù)據主要提取自軍團中的各種可汗與其他軍官們的私人日志，而且在荷魯斯向他父親宣戰(zhàn)前的最后幾年中，該數(shù)字也并非廣為人知。因此，大部分帝國指揮官通常相信：白疤軍團的部隊規(guī)模比實際上要大得多；軍團的各個分隊按照自己的意愿從一個戰(zhàn)場轉移到另一個戰(zhàn)場的行為，以及許多兄弟會使用的令人困惑的紋章是人們產生這種假想主要原因。

During the final stages of?the Great Crusade, in the years just before the Isstvan massacres, the White Scars were spread across the galaxy in several dozen war zones, often in detachments of only a few Brotherhoods. At Ullanor, Horus called upon the Great Khan and his warriors, gathering several full Hordes of?the Vth Legion and their Primarch to his side 一 the largest concentration of the Legion at a single war zone since the Kolarne Circle campaign. Following the fighting at Ullanor, those Hordes that had been present, along with several others previously assigned to fighting in the southern fringes of the Great Crusade, were committed to the Chondax Cleansing and were later involved in the Alpha Legion's treacherous assault against the White Scars. This left at least three Hordes unaccounted for in the first years of the Horus Heresy, most assigned to fleets along the north-eastern edge of the Great Crusade and far removed from contact with their Primarch. It appears that most of the Traitor detachments in this region were under orders to avoid engaging remnant White Scars forces, and in at least one incident, a Legiones Astartes force in White Scars colours is known to have fought alongside a Sons of Horus battle force in campaigns targeting Blood Angels' and Ultramarines, holdouts along the Eastern Fringe. Following the Chondax Engagement, there are few concrete facts regarding the main body of the White Scars and their movements are little known in the years that preceded the Battle for Terra.?

在大遠征的最后階段，伊斯特萬大屠殺的僅僅數(shù)年之前，白疤軍團分散到了銀河各處的數(shù)十個戰(zhàn)區(qū)中，而且通常是僅由數(shù)個兄弟會組成的分遣隊。在烏蘭諾戰(zhàn)役中，荷魯斯號召大汗與他的戰(zhàn)士們參戰(zhàn)，他的身邊聚集起了第五軍團的數(shù)個完整部落和他們的原體——自從Kolarne星環(huán)會戰(zhàn)之后，這是白疤軍團在單個戰(zhàn)區(qū)中的最大規(guī)模部隊集結。在烏蘭諾的戰(zhàn)事結束后，參戰(zhàn)的部落與其他數(shù)個在之前就被派往大遠征南部邊境作戰(zhàn)的部落參與了對Chondax星系的清洗行動，他們之后被卷入了阿爾法軍團對白疤軍團發(fā)動的背叛進攻。這導致至少三個部落在荷魯斯叛亂初期下落不明，他們大多被派往大遠征東北邊境的艦隊，與他們的原體距離遙遠。而且似乎該地區(qū)的大部分叛軍分隊都被命令避免與殘余的白疤部隊交戰(zhàn)，而且在至少一次事件中，已知有一支噴涂著白疤配色的阿斯塔特軍團部隊與一支荷魯斯之子的戰(zhàn)斗部隊共同參與了針對圣血天使與極限戰(zhàn)士的戰(zhàn)役，后者堅守東部邊境，拒不投降。在Chondax戰(zhàn)役之后，關于白疤軍團主體的確切事實幾乎不為人知，他們在泰拉之戰(zhàn)之前幾年里的行動鮮為人知。