As with all the Wings of the Dark Angels, the Ravenwing was intended to gather and focus the Legion's expertise within a singular battlefield art. In this case it was that of skirmish warfare, of the swift advance and sudden withdrawal, to engage the foe and frustrate its strategies rather than simply grind down its will to fight in a simple war of attrition. As such, the Ravenwing tended to focus on battlefield assets that complemented this style of warfare, with their ranks comprising the largest numbers of Land Speeders, aircraft and strike tanks in the First Legion, all scattered across the various Orders and Companies that formed the vast host of the Dark Angels. During the long years of the Great Crusade, the warriors of?the Ravenwing served as experts in the field of swift war, called upon to advise the knight-praetors when their expertise was needed and to lead those units that best served their skills - only rarely would they be gathered together as a singular host. Yet, with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, it would be ever more common for the warriors of?this Wing to be called upon to fight as a singular whole, often deployed to blunt the advance of?more traditional Legion hosts or to deny ground to a larger enemy army without attempting to directly contest them, and resorting to spoiling attacks and swift raids to keep a superior force at bay.

就像黑暗天使軍團(tuán)中的所有翼軍那樣，鴉翼的目的也是聚集和集中使用軍團(tuán)在獨(dú)定某種戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)藝術(shù)上的專(zhuān)業(yè)技能。他們所進(jìn)行的是一種小規(guī)模戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，使用快速前進(jìn)和突然撤退的戰(zhàn)術(shù)，目的是與敵人交戰(zhàn)并破壞敵方戰(zhàn)略，而非只是在簡(jiǎn)單的消耗戰(zhàn)中磨練自己的意志。因此，鴉翼也傾向于集中使用（能夠）補(bǔ)足此類(lèi)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)風(fēng)格的戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)裝備，他們是第一軍團(tuán)中蘭德速攻艇、飛行器和突擊坦克最多的部隊(duì)，所有成員都分散在在了各種各樣的騎士團(tuán)和連隊(duì)中——后兩者組成了黑暗天使軍團(tuán)中那規(guī)模龐大的天軍部隊(duì)。在大遠(yuǎn)征的漫長(zhǎng)歲月中，鴉翼戰(zhàn)士們是快速戰(zhàn)的專(zhuān)家，當(dāng)軍團(tuán)需要他們的專(zhuān)業(yè)知識(shí)時(shí)，他們就會(huì)被召集起來(lái)，為騎士執(zhí)政官建言獻(xiàn)策，并且領(lǐng)導(dǎo)那些最能發(fā)揮此類(lèi)技能的單位們作戰(zhàn)——他們很少會(huì)作為單獨(dú)的一支天軍聚集到一起。不過(guò)，隨著荷魯斯叛亂爆發(fā)，鴉翼戰(zhàn)士們被作為一個(gè)獨(dú)立的整體召喚起來(lái)參戰(zhàn)的情況也將會(huì)越來(lái)越常見(jiàn)。他們通常是被部署去削弱某些更為傳統(tǒng)軍團(tuán)部隊(duì)的優(yōu)勢(shì)，或者在不試圖進(jìn)行直接對(duì)抗的情況下阻礙更強(qiáng)大敵軍部隊(duì)的前進(jìn)。他們也會(huì)依靠破壞性進(jìn)攻和快速掠襲來(lái)牽制住敵軍的優(yōu)勢(shì)部隊(duì)。

During the Thramas Crusade, this gambit would be employed on a number of occasions with great success, with a number of?worlds along the fringes of?the Dark Angels' advance being denied to the Night Lords by the presence of small Ravenwing task forces. It became only natural that in the larger engagements of the crusade, at Sheol and Yaelis amongst others, that the Ravenwing continued to act as a unified force, ranging ahead of the main host to harry the Night Lords as they drew up their lines for battle and to discourage enemy forces from attempting flanking assaults of?their own. It was a tactical convention that would survive the Thramas Crusade and continue throughout the Horus Heresy, and given the Ravenwing’s doctrine of?limited war and hit-and-run strikes, it would see them survive Horus' rebellion with one of?the largest and most cohesive forces still combat ready within the First Legion. What had begun as a quirk of the Horus Heresy's dire needs would become tradition during the Scouring that followed, seeing the Ravenwing become a force unto themselves in the new age of the Imperium that followed.

在薩拉馬斯遠(yuǎn)征期間，這一策略讓第一軍團(tuán)在很多情況中都取得了巨大成功，在位于黑暗天使軍團(tuán)前進(jìn)路線邊緣的諸多世界上，一支小規(guī)模鴉翼特遣隊(duì)的出現(xiàn)就能使該世界拒絕（屈服于）午夜領(lǐng)主。在對(duì)于Sheol和Yaelis等世界的大規(guī)模遠(yuǎn)征作戰(zhàn)中，鴉翼很自然地繼續(xù)作為一支統(tǒng)一的部隊(duì)行動(dòng)，他們會(huì)沖到主力部隊(duì)的前方來(lái)不斷襲擾午夜領(lǐng)主部隊(duì)，他們劃出戰(zhàn)線準(zhǔn)備戰(zhàn)斗，并阻止敵人從己方側(cè)翼發(fā)動(dòng)進(jìn)攻。這種戰(zhàn)術(shù)習(xí)俗在薩拉馬斯遠(yuǎn)征中傳續(xù)下來(lái)，并且被黑暗天使軍團(tuán)在整個(gè)荷魯斯叛亂時(shí)期持續(xù)使用?？紤]到鴉翼關(guān)于有限戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)和游擊進(jìn)攻的信條，這種習(xí)俗將會(huì)見(jiàn)證這些信條與鴉翼——仍在第一軍團(tuán)中戰(zhàn)斗的規(guī)模最大也最具凝聚力的部隊(duì)之一，從荷魯斯發(fā)動(dòng)的叛亂中幸存下來(lái)。在之后的大清洗中，這種為了滿(mǎn)足荷魯斯叛亂時(shí)期的迫切需要而開(kāi)始采用的奇怪安排變成了黑暗傳統(tǒng)，它將見(jiàn)證鴉翼在之后到來(lái)的人類(lèi)帝國(guó)新紀(jì)元中成為一支獨(dú)立的力量。