Valkyrie Contents Deployment

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**cosmic pixie**

Hey, playing last night, I saw a guy that had an Infantry Platoon that contained:
1 Platoon Command Squad
5 Infantry Squads

He deployed it in 6 Valkyries arranged in 2 Squads. Now, dakka, I wish to know whether this is legal and under what terms?

Cheers

**don_mondo**

Yes, it's legal. Each squad in the platoon is a separate unit, and can be placed in a transport and go off and do it's own thing, etc etc. The only requirement would be that the valks in the same squadron have to stick together. But he could disembark one Infantry squad before moving the valk squad, anohter halfway through their flat out move and another at the end of their flat out move (using the special valk deployment rules)

**warboss**

cosmic pixie wrote:Hey, playing last night, I saw a guy that had an Infantry Platoon that contained:
1 Platoon Command Squad
5 Infantry Squads

He deployed it in 6 Valkyries arranged in 2 Squads. Now, dakka, I wish to know whether this is legal and under what terms?

Cheers

it is legal under the terms of Warhamer 40,000 v5.0 and Codex: Imperial Guard v4.0.

as long as he didn't blob the squads together via the combined squad rule for platoons, he can do exactly that. that's quite the air cav army he's got there!

**Valkyrie**

Yep, perfectly legal

**cosmic pixie**

Cool, cheers.

Yeah he has 6 Valks and 3 Vendettas all painted, quite the AirCav.

**killerturkey2**

don_mondo wrote:Yes, it's legal. Each squad in the platoon is a separate unit, and can be placed in a transport and go off and do it's own thing, etc etc. The only requirement would be that the valks in the same squadron have to stick together. But he could disembark one Infantry squad before moving the valk squad, anohter halfway through their flat out move and another at the end of their flat out move (using the special valk deployment rules)

except that you can't disembark when moving flat out. thats what grave chute insertion's for.

**Scott-S6**

There is absolutely nothing which says that the various units within a platoon must stay together.

**don_mondo**

Emporer Penguin wrote:
don_mondo wrote:Yes, it's legal. Each squad in the platoon is a separate unit, and can be placed in a transport and go off and do it's own thing, etc etc. The only requirement would be that the valks in the same squadron have to stick together. But he could disembark one Infantry squad before moving the valk squad, anohter halfway through their flat out move and another at the end of their flat out move (using the special valk deployment rules)

except that you can't disembark when moving flat out. thats what grave chute insertion's for.

Ummm, yeah, that would be the "special valk deployment rule" whose name I couldn't remember..............