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I'm getting geared up for a huge in-store Apocalypse game tonight and just had a single question, and since I don't own the Apocalypse book and the store is out of them no one knows the answer:

If I choose a formation (in this case, a Kroot mercenary formation), and every unit in the formation has infiltrate and I choose to outflank with the formation, does the entire formation come in on a single reserves roll or does each unit still roll separately?

Apocalypse doesn't roll for reserves.

Actually, you do roll for reserves in apoc.

Most marine players take 'careful planning' and therefore don't need to roll, but it doesn't mean that EVERYone else doesn't roll.

It says that the formations are deployed together (and if any part cannot be deployed due to time constraints, the ENTIRE formation goes back into reserves), so I'd say the ENTIRE formation arrives from reserve as one choice.

Ummm... no.

1st turn: no reserves.
2nd turn: half of the reserves come on.
3rd turn: the rest come on.

Mmm, that's how I understand it too, you just need to decide beforehand which formations you want to arrive on which turn.

EDIT: I was going to pose another question here, but that would be thread-jacking. Time for a new thread!

My bad.
Haven't played an apocalypse game in over 6 months - and the slimewad who destroyed the fun of the game stole my book as well (I know where he lives, and when my wife is feeling better, I'm gonna go around to his place and re-adjust his attitude with a size 9 steel cap).

Turn 2 nothing HAS to arrive - it says up to half your stuff can arrive on turn 2. But on turn 3, everything remaining does, guaranteed.

In the case of Careful Planning it's just up to half turn 1, the rest turn 2. If you bring nothing on turn 1, it makes for a VERY devastating turn 2 depending on your army composition. Having that much arrive as a big hammerblow all at once can be hard to recover from.

See page 100, Apocalypse. "Note that units bought together to form a battle formation are deployed simultaneously when the formation is deployed, but then move and fight independently, unless specified otherwise."