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A friend and I were playing a game the other day, he was 'nids, I was IG. My question is, when calculating kill points, how do you factor in an infantry platoon? Does the whole thing count as one, or do you take a tally for each individual squad? I know this is fairly basic stuff, but we're still pretty new. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Kill points are based off the number of units destroyed.

Infantry platoons are made up of a number of units that all fit into one Force Org slot. Each of those units is worth a kill point..

How many units is it? You get one kill point for each separate unit (which includes Independent Characters) that is dead at the end of the game.

Ok, then. It would seem I won't ever beat his nids no matter how badly I slap them around.

Yeah Kill points aren't your best friend as IG.

You could always blob your squads up to avoid that. A 50 man squad with a commissar is a hard point to crack.

Finnthehuman wrote:Ok, then. It would seem I won't ever beat his nids no matter how badly I slap them around.

You can mitigate that some by using the combined squad special rule. It makes all of the squads you combine together act as a single unit, including for scoring purposes. Terms and conditions apply, refer to the infantry squad entry of your codex for details.

Yep. On KP missions IG Platoons blob up to make 3 small squads (3KP) into 1 giant squad (1 KP).
Add Commisars with PFs and SGTs with PWs and the bugs have huge issues...assuming they survive a 30-50 man blob shooting on 1st Rank, 2nd Rank orders (potential of 90-150 shots).
Add in Heavy Weapon teams with either autocannons or Lascannons getting "Bring it Down" orders and the TMCs drop pretty quick too.
Drop the Synapse bug with Heavy Weapons, then drop your Colossus shell on the gaunts and watch them break and run.
Ymgrls are a PITA since he can set them to come into play right in your building and tie you up for a turn or 2...hence the fists and PWs...to ensure smaller units that charge die that turn. You may lose a dozen dudes from their attacks, but if you wipe out the unit you still win the KP without having to roll Ld.

Finnthehuman wrote:Ok, then. It would seem I won't ever beat his nids no matter how badly I slap them around.

In Kill Point missions, the trick is going to be keeping at least one guy from each unit alive.

But if you're playing the standard missions from the rulebook, only 1 of the 3 missions use Kill Points. For the other two, you potentially have a fairly large advantage due to having a lot more Troops units than him.

"Add Commisars with PFs"
Infantry squad commisars dont get PFs

What nosferatu1001 is true. They can only have pw's and plasma pistols.

As noted, in KP missions you can use the combined squads option on deployment to combine the infantry squads in your platoon into a single unit, thus making a larger, more durable unit and reducing the number of KPs you have on the field. Remember that the platoon command section can't combine in, though.

Unreg1stered wrote:Yeah Kill points aren't your best friend as IG.

You could always blob your squads up to avoid that. A 50 man squad with a commissar is a hard point to crack.

One of the reasons I think victory points is far superior

Except at balancing out objectives missions, where MSU is the best possible choice. VPs unbalance things even further.

When you understand what KPs do, you understand why VPs as 1 of 3 missions would have been a terrible, terrible idea