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I must be missing something here. I decided to try IG, and traded some stuff for a Codex and some troops. While trying to decide how to equip my Cadian troopers, I decided I need to know how many models of each type I need.

The info on what is in a Platoon is pretty straight-forward. The book tells you exactly what you can fit in a Platoon. However, there's no such list of components for a Company. How many Platoons can fit into a Company? And, what page does the Codex explain this?

One platoon is one Troops Choice.

You can have 6 Troops Choices in a standard force org detachment.

a Company is just a non-rules specific term they use I believe.

 DeathReaper wrote:
One platoon is one Troops Choice.

You can have 6 Troops Choices in a standard force org detachment.

a Company is just a non-rules specific term they use I believe.

Ahhh. Alright, I thought it was designed after a military structure, where X number of squads form a Platoon. Then X number of Platoons form a Company. Thanks very much, I was wondering what the heck I was missing.

 Iron Dragon wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
One platoon is one Troops Choice.

You can have 6 Troops Choices in a standard force org detachment.

a Company is just a non-rules specific term they use I believe.

Ahhh. Alright, I thought it was designed after a military structure, where X number of squads form a Platoon. Then X number of Platoons form a Company. Thanks very much, I was wondering what the heck I was missing.

Well there is a Company Command squad HQ.

In which you can take technically 0-6 platoons.

Thinking back to my time in the military, I was part of a HQ Battery, same thing as a platoon for artiller. We had three Platoons, as well as a seperate detachment

GW fluff for Guard regiments is entirely flexible regarding the number of platoons to a company and companies to the Regiment. The FOC gives you the relevant restrictions for the game. Theoretically if you were using 2 FOCs you could still say that a single CCS covers all 12 infantry platoons, with the other HQ being made up of a lord commisar or something. But this is all fluff nonsense