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Question came up in another post

Can you combat squad your space marine unit, deploy half of them, and reserve the other half?

No, because you CS ON deployment, not BEFORE deployment.

Well, you reserve INSTEAD of deploying. If you figure out a way to deploy a unit and not deploy a unit at the same time, then sure.

In actuality, no.

In short no, for the reasons nosferatu1001 points out.

You combat squad when you deploy the unit.

ok but in the rules says During Deployment you declare which units are in reserves

General_Chaos wrote:ok but in the rules says During Deployment you declare which units are in reserves

What it actually says is; "When deploying their army, players may choose not to deploy one or more of the units in their army and instead leave them in reserve."

So units that you have placed in reserve have not been deployed, and cannot be split into combat squads.

I guess I see that now.

Ok so if you reserve your unit can you combat squad when you come in?

Yes.