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This came up last night. Al'rahem's entire platoon must outflank, and platoons, according to the Troops page in the IG codex, say that the entire platoon is collectively rolled for during reserves. How much of rolling for reserves does this include, just to see if they arrive, or the outflank side roll also? I thought it was just to see if they arrive, but my opponent read it and felt it was any roll pertaining to reserves.

daedalus wrote:This came up last night. Al'rahem's entire platoon must outflank, and platoons, according to the Troops page in the IG codex, say that the entire platoon is collectively rolled for during reserves. How much of rolling for reserves does this include, just to see if they arrive, or the outflank side roll also? I thought it was just to see if they arrive, but my opponent read it and felt it was any roll pertaining to reserves.

It includes the outflank roll as well. Outflanking is part of reserves.

Or perhaps not.

GW once again doesn't bother proofreading or errataing anything, so you have to make stuff up, yet again.

On the bright side, at least I didn't overlook anything then. Thanks Gwar!

yeah, it's not necessarily 100% clear but the rules say that platoons handle reserves together so i'd say you roll once and the whole platoon appears on that side. on a fluff side note, since the platoon commander is leading them, it makes sense that they arrive together since that character is the only reason they're not deployed in the original deployment zone with the rest of the army.

Via Inat you make one roll for the platoon, and one roll for determining which side they come out on. Whether or not you use Inat as a clarification resource is up to you though