The Battle of Vanaheim, also known as the Fall of Vanaheim, was a battle of the Horus Heresy fought from 008-009.M31.

瓦纳海姆之战，也被称为瓦纳海姆陷落，是008-009.M31之间荷鲁斯叛乱的一场战斗。

• Conflict:Horus Heresy

• 冲突：荷鲁斯叛乱

• Date:008-009.M31 (main phase)

• 日期：008-009.M31 (主阶段)

• Location:Vanaheim

• 地点：瓦纳海姆

• Outcome:Traitor victory, Space Wolves main force retreats, Loyalist remnants continue guerrilla campaign until Great Scouring

• 结果：叛徒胜利，太空野狼主部队撤退，忠诚派残余继续游击战直到大清洗

• Combatants:Imperium/Traitor Legions

• 作战方：帝国/叛徒军团

• Commanders:Primarch Leman Russ (late battle), Captain Gautrek Skyblade, Cazin Ru'darak (KIA)/Warsmith Orbarox Grawlen

• 指挥官：原体黎曼·鲁斯（后期战斗），连长高特雷克·天刃，卡津·鲁'达拉克(KIA)/战争铁匠奥巴罗克斯·格劳伦

• Strength:Large Space Wolves force, Shattered Legions warband, Loyalist Vanaheim Mechanicum/5,000 Iron Warriors (72nd Grand Battalion), 700,000 Solar Auxilia

• 力量：大量太空野狼部队，破碎军团战帮，忠诚派瓦纳海姆机械教/5000钢铁勇士（第72大营），70万太阳辅助军

• Casualties:Heavy/Heavy

• 伤亡：重大/重大

Prelude 序曲

Vanaheim was a Forge World and Ice World which showcased some similarities to Neptune and Uranus regarding its hostile atmosphere and other conditions. As most of the planet was largely uninhabitable, its population was centred on a series of nine hives. These were extraordinary as these were orbital stations and outfitted with technology that allowed for the creation of habitable bubbles around them. Accordingly, the Forge World became a centre of research on and production of aircraft, as these were the main medium for the hives to keep in contact with each other and the surface, where the actual forge-fanes were located.

瓦纳海姆是一个铸造世界和冰雪世界，在其敌意的大气层和其他条件方面与海王星和天王星有一些相似之处。由于行星上大部分地区基本上不适合居住，其人口集中在一组九个巢都中。这些是非同寻常的，因为这些是轨道空间站，并配备了允许在它们周围创造可居住气泡的技术。因此，铸造世界成为了飞机研究和生产的中心，因为这些是巢都之间以及与实际铸造神殿所在的地表保持联系的主要媒介。

When the Horus Heresy erupted, Vanaheim initially attempted to stay neutral. However, the Iron Warriors' 72nd Grand Battalion under Warsmith Orbarox Grawlen chanced upon one of the Forge World's tithe fleets. Though Grawlen had been ordered to support the Dark Compliance of Paramar V, the knowledge and resources extracted from the tithe fleet convinced him that his force as well as Perturabo himself would be far better serviced by capturing a whole Forge World rather than attempting to garrison a embattled world like Paramar V.

当荷鲁斯叛乱爆发时，瓦纳海姆最初试图保持中立。然而，由战争铁匠奥巴罗克斯·格劳伦指挥的钢铁勇士第72大营偶然发现了铸造世界的一支什一税舰队。尽管格劳伦奉命支援帕拉马尔五号的黑暗平定，但从什一税舰队中提取的知识和资源使他相信，通过占领整个铸造世界，而不是试图驻扎像帕拉马尔五号这样四面楚歌的世界，他的部队和佩图拉博本人将得到更好的服务。

Battle 战斗

Traitor conquest and Ru'darak's guerrilla war 叛徒征服与鲁'达拉克的游击战争

The battle thus began when the Iron Warriors' 72nd Grand Battalion led by Grawlen arrived at Vanaheim. After a demand of surrender was refused by the local Forge Lords, the Warsmith began an assault with 5,000 Space Marines and about 700,000 Solar Auxilia (called the "Iron Penance"). He reasoned that he did not have to secure the entire planet, but rather only the orbital hives as these held most of the planet's population and were the main means to transport the Forge World's industrial output into space. By securing these, he could force the Forge Lords to do his bidding. The Iron Warriors launched a daring assault on the orbital hives of Vanaheim, capturing them after ten days of brutal fighting. In response, the rest of the planet surrendered.

当格劳伦率领的钢铁勇士第72大营抵达瓦纳海姆时，战斗由此开始。在当地铸造领主拒绝投降要求后，战争铁匠开始发动攻击，搭载5000名星际战士和约70万名太阳辅助军（称为“钢铁忏悔”）。他认为，他不必保护整个行星，而只需要保护轨道巢都，因为这些巢都容纳了行星上大部分的人口，是将铸造世界的工业产出运送到太空的主要手段。通过确保这些，他可以迫使铸造领主听从他的命令。钢铁勇士对瓦纳海姆的轨道巢都发动了大胆的进攻，在经过十天的残酷战斗后将其占领。作为回应，行星其他地区投降了。

After Vanaheim's conquest, the planet's industrial output was rerouted to support the Traitor cause. However, this also attracted unwanted attention by nearby loyalist forces, while local Tech-Priests sent messages requesting aid into the void. The first response arrived in the form of a Shattered Legions warband, led by Captain Cazin Ru'darak of the Salamanders' 53rd Company. Ru'darak's force was a collection of Salamanders, Raven Guard, White Scars, Solar Auxilia, Imperial Army regiments, and Divisio Aeronautica contingents. This motley army was too weak to retake Vanaheim by force, but would subsequently wage an extensive guerrilla war against the Iron Warriors in the void, the air, and on the land.

瓦纳海姆征服后，该行星的工业产出被重新安排，以支持叛徒事业。然而，这也引起了附近忠诚派部队的不必要关注，而当地的技术神甫则向虚空发送了请求援助的信息。第一个回应是由火蜥蜴第53连队连长卡津·鲁'达拉克率领的破碎军团。鲁'达拉克的部队由火蜥蜴、暗鸦守卫、白色疤痕、太阳辅助军、帝国军队兵团和航空分部特遣队组成。这支混杂军队太弱，无法武力夺回瓦纳海姆，但随后将在虚空、空中和陆地上对钢铁勇士发动广泛的游击战。

For some time, the loyalist guerrilla campaign succeeded in disrupting the traitor presence. However, when Ru'darak's forces made a more daring airborne attack on one forge-fane on Vanaheim's surface, Beta-X15A, they were drawn into a trap. Even though they succeeded in completely destroying the forge-fane, depriving the Iron Warriors of important war materiel, this attack resulted in the destruction of two-thirds of the loyalist guerrillas' aircraft and heavy personnel losses, with Ru'darak being among those listed as fallen in combat.

一段时间以来，忠诚派游击队成功地瓦解了叛徒的存在。然而，当鲁'达拉克的部队对瓦纳海姆表面上的一个铸造神殿贝塔-X15A进行更大胆的空袭时，他们被拖入了陷阱。尽管他们成功地彻底摧毁了铸造厂，剥夺了钢铁勇士的重要战争物资，但这次袭击导致忠诚派游击队三分之二的飞机被毁，人员损失惨重，鲁'达拉克是被列为在战斗中牺牲的人之一。

Attempted reconquest by the Space Wolves 太空野狼的未遂重新征服

Not long after the destruction of Beta-X15A, another force of loyalist Astartes arrived at Vanaheim. This contingent was vastly larger than the Shattered Legions warband, consisting of a collection of Space Wolves raiding parties previously involved in battling the Night Lords at Daverant. This force was led by Captain Gautrek Skyblade of the 4th Great Company. Unlike Ru'darak, Skyblade believed that he could not only cripple the Iron Warriors on Vanaheim, but retake the entire world. The first action by the loyalist was to attack the local Iron Warriors fleet. In a series of battles, Skyblade's fleet (reinforced by the remnants of Ru'darak's ships, which had remained in hiding in local asteroid fields) successfully shattered the traitor forces in space, forcing the remaining Iron Warriors ships in flee.

贝塔-X15A被摧毁后不久，另一支忠诚派阿斯塔特部队抵达瓦纳海姆。这支队伍的规模远超破碎军团战帮，由一群曾参与在达夫兰特与午夜领主作战的太空野狼突袭队组成。这支部队由第四大连的高特雷克·天刃连长领导。与鲁'达拉克不同，天刃认为他不仅可以削弱瓦纳海姆的钢铁勇士，还可以夺回整个世界。忠诚者的第一个行动是袭击当地的钢铁勇士舰队。在一系列的战斗中，天刃的舰队（由鲁'达拉克的残余船只增援，这些船只一直躲在当地的小行星域中）成功粉碎了太空中的叛徒部队，迫使剩余的钢铁勇士舰船逃离。

In contrast, the next operations would go poorly for the loyalists, as the Space Wolves launched three counter-attacks to reclaim the orbital hive stations.

相比之下，接下来的行动对忠诚者来说会很糟糕，因为太空野狼发动了三次反击以夺回轨道巢都空间站。

The first assault targeted several hives, but was repelled by the traitors. The Space Wolves suffered massive losses, and were subsequently forced to operate in a more concentrated fashion. However, Skyblade falsely assumed that the first attack had revealed the Iron Warriors' overall defences, and thus believed that one major loyalist strike at Vanaheim's capital hive Fyrstaheim could overwhelm the Iron Warriors. Instead, the second attempt revealed that Grawlen's main force had set up position in Fyrstaheim's "Iron Spyre", a fortress which broke the Space Wolves attempt to establish a foothold.

第一次袭击的目标是几个巢都，但被叛徒击退了。太空野狼遭受了巨大的损失，随后被迫以更集中的方式作战。然而，天刃错误地认为，第一次攻击已经暴露了钢铁勇士的整体防御，因此认为，在瓦纳海姆的首都巢都菲尔斯塔海姆的一次重大忠诚派袭击可能会压倒钢铁勇士。相反，第二次尝试表明，格劳伦的主力部队已经在菲尔斯塔海姆的“钢铁尖塔”中建立了阵地，这座堡垒打破了太空野狼建立立足点的企图。

At this point, Skyblade acted more out of wounded pride than sense and ordered his final assault. This time, he ordered his remaining airborne and space forces to abandon their sieges of Vanaheim's outer hives to launch an all-out attack on the Iron Spyre. This final offensive was led by Skyblade personally, and the Captain was seemingly killed when his Fire Raptor Gunship was shot down. The loyalists suffered massive losses, but were actually able to penetrate the Iron Warrior defences and enter the Iron Spyre. Ultimately, this success proved meaningless when the Iron Warriors launched their own counter-attack in space with their remaining fleet. As the Space Wolves were mostly focused on the Iron Spyre, heavily depleted, and in disarray due to Skyblade's disappearance, the Iron Warriors fleet defeated the loyalist navy. Traitor boarding parties even captured the Space Wolves Grand Cruiser Helicon Spear which became a prize for the traitor legion. Cut off due to the defeat of their fleet, the Space Wolves in the Iron Spyre were left isolated and close to destruction at the Iron Warriors' hands.

此时，天刃的行动更多的是出于受伤的自尊，而不是理智，并下令进行最后的攻击。这一次，他命令剩下的空降和太空部队放弃对瓦纳海姆外部巢都的围困，对钢铁尖塔发动全面攻击。这场最后的进攻是由天刃亲自领导的，当他的火隼炮艇被击落时，连长似乎被杀了。忠诚派遭受了巨大的损失，但实际上能够穿透钢铁勇士的防御并进入钢铁尖塔。最终，当钢铁勇士用他们剩下的舰队在太空发动反击时，这一成功被证明是毫无意义的。由于太空野狼主要集中在钢铁尖塔上，由于天刃的消失，太空野狼损失严重并处于混乱状态，钢铁勇士舰队击败了忠诚派海军。叛徒跳帮队甚至俘获了太空野狼的螺旋之矛号大型巡洋舰，这成为了叛徒军团的战利品。由于舰队的失败而被切断，钢铁尖塔中的太空野狼被关在钢铁战士之手，濒临毁灭。

However, at this point the Space Wolves' main fleet under Primarch Leman Russ himself arrived in the system. His large fleet scattered the Iron Warriors' navy, absorbing what remained of the fleets of Ru'darak and Skyblade. Russ then turned to Vanaheim directly, using his forces to push the Iron Warriors back to their strongholds in the orbital hives. He then made contact with the local Forge Lords, requesting their aid to the loyalist cause. Instead, the Forge Lords once more declared neutrality, seemingly hoping that they could be left alone even as the Space Wolves and Iron Warriors fought each other in the planet's orbit. Disgusted at the local Mechanicum and aware that a full conquest of both the orbital hives and the uncooperative forge-fanes would be too costly to his Legion (which had already suffered heavy losses in the Burning of Prospero, the Battle of the Alaxxes Nebula, and at Daverant), Russ opted to instead withdraw all local loyalists he could contact. He then ordered his fleet to fire on Fyrstaheim. Initially, the hive - protected by the Iron Spyre's powerful shields - seemed to survive the barrage. Then, the shields unexpectedly failed, causing the loyalist fleets' guns to completely destroy Vanaheim's capital hive and its 300 million inhabitants. The shield's failure had in fact been caused by the remnants of Skyblade's landing force, as the Captain had actually survived his aircraft's crash and rallied his troops to sabotage the Iron Spyre's shield reactors.

然而，在这一点上，黎曼·鲁斯亲自率领的太空野狼主舰队到达了该星系。他的庞大舰队分散了钢铁勇士的海军，吸收了鲁'达拉克和天刃的剩余舰队。然后，鲁斯直接转向瓦纳海姆，用他的部队将钢铁勇士推回他们在轨道巢都中的据点。随后，他与当地的铸造领主取得了联系，请求他们为忠诚派事业提供援助。相反，铸造领主们再次宣布中立，似乎希望即使太空野狼和钢铁勇士在行星轨道上相互争斗，他们也能独处。鲁斯对当地的机械教感到厌恶，并意识到完全征服轨道巢都和不合作的铸造神殿对他的军团来说代价太高（军团已经在普罗斯佩罗之焚、阿拉克西斯星云之战和达夫兰特之战中遭受了重大损失），他选择撤回所有他能联系到的当地忠诚者。然后，他命令他的舰队向菲尔斯塔海姆开火。起初，巢都在钢铁尖塔强大的盾牌保护下，似乎在炮击中幸存下来。然后，盾牌意外失效，导致忠诚派舰队的炮火彻底摧毁了瓦纳海姆的首都巢都及其3亿居民。盾牌的失效实际上是由天刃登陆部队的残余造成的，因为连长实际上在飞机坠毁中幸存下来，并召集他的部队破坏了钢铁勇士的盾牌发生器。

Satisfied with Fyrstaheim's destruction, Russ and his legion then left, leaving the rest of Vanaheim to the Iron Warriors. They were not accompanied by Skyblade and his comrades. The Captain and about 200 other Space Wolves had been able to escape the capital hive's destruction in captured gunships, but opted to move onto Vanaheim's surface to atone for their failures by continuing their war against the Iron Warriors.

对菲尔斯塔海姆的毁灭感到满意，鲁斯和他的军团随后离开，将瓦纳海姆的其余部分留给了钢铁勇士。他们没有陪同天刃和他的战友。连长和大约200名其他太空野狼已经能够通过被缴获的炮艇逃脱首都巢都摧毁的命运，但他们选择前往瓦纳海姆的表面，继续与钢铁勇士作战，以弥补他们的失败。

Aftermath 余波

The retreat of Russ and the vast majority of the loyalists allowed the Iron Warriors to claim victory, even though Vanaheim's industrial output had been vastly reduced by the fighting. Grawlen would take immense pride in having forced a Primarch to withdraw from battle. In the next years, Vanaheim became a major centre of the Iron Warriors' private empire and was crucial in supplying traitor forces. The local Forge Lords' alleged neutrality was crushed as the Iron Warriors either corrupted or just killed them, ultimately controlling the entire planet. However, their control of Vanaheim would suffer under constant small-scale attacks by the loyalist guerrillas. These were the remnants of Skyblade's contingent, united with the remaining ground forces of Ru'darak's old warband.

尽管瓦纳海姆的工业产出因战斗而大幅减少，但鲁斯和绝大多数忠诚者的撤退使钢铁勇士取得了胜利。格劳伦会为迫使一位原体退出战斗而感到无比自豪。在接下来的几年里，瓦纳海姆成为钢铁勇士的私人帝国的主要中心，在供应叛徒部队方面发挥了至关重要的作用。当地铸造领主所谓的中立被粉碎，因为钢铁勇士要么腐化了他们，要么只是杀死了他们，最终控制了整个行星。然而，他们对瓦纳海姆的控制将受到忠诚派游击队不断的小规模袭击。这些是天刃分遣队的残余，与鲁'达拉克的旧战帮的剩余地面部队联合在一起。

When Vanaheim was eventually retaken by the Imperium in the Great Scouring, a small loyalist force drawn from four Space Marine Legions reemerged, having kept up the fight all these years.

当瓦纳海姆最终在大清洗中被帝国夺回时，一支来自四个星际战士军团的小型忠诚派部队重新出现，这些年来一直在战斗。