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Page 96 – Infantry Platoon, second sentence
Change to: “Each Infantry Platoon is deployed in place of a
single unit in missions that limit the number units that can be
deployed. In addition when making a reserve or outflanking
roll, roll once for the whole Infantry Platoon. Any units in
reserve that are embarked upon a non-dedicated transport are
instead rolled for separately.”

I'm not sure how you guys read this, but yeah, you can put any part of an infantry platoon in a Valk/Vendetta.


So with this knowledge, I would put a Special-weapons squad with 3 Flamers in mine. They are the objective sweepers at a great price. And they score.

I don't know where any of you are getting that you can't reserve a platoon piecemeal.

You reserve units, not Force Org Selections.

It's stated quite clearly there "Each Infantry Platoon is deployed in place of a single unit in missions that limit the number of units that can be deployed".

"in missions that limit the number of units that can be deployed"

So Ailaros is right, when you are playing a mission that limits the number of units you can deploy. But as of now, there is none.

Units are reserved, not FOC selections.

In addition when making a reserve or outflanking
roll, roll once for the whole Infantry Platoon.

This part implies that the whole platoon must be reserved together.

Any units in reserve that are embarked upon a non-dedicated transport are
instead rolled for separately

This part implies that when rolling for your entire platoon, the ones in vendettas are rolled separately.

There's nothing in there about splitting platoons into reserve/deployment. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it's not as clear as people make out.


Although I only use vets at the moment so I don't even know why I care enough to keep posting.

 Griddlelol wrote:

In addition when making a reserve or outflanking
roll, roll once for the whole Infantry Platoon.

This part implies that the whole platoon must be reserved together.

Any units in reserve that are embarked upon a non-dedicated transport are
instead rolled for separately

This part implies that when rolling for your entire platoon, the ones in vendettas are rolled separately.

Yes. Except that both of those quotes follow "Each infantry platoon is deployed in place of a single unit in missions that limit the number of units that can be deployed."

So your quotes are referring to that. Hence the first quote containing "In addition".

 TheCaptain wrote:

Units are reserved, not FOC selections.

That doesn't really hold water. Platoons are rather unique in that respect and it explicitly says that the whole platoon is rolled for when making reserve rolls.


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 TheCaptain wrote:

Yes. Except that both of those quotes follow "Each infantry platoon is deployed in place of a single unit in missions that limit the number of units that can be deployed."

Surely that part backs up the idea of them reserving as a whole not as individual units. If a platoon is "deployed in place of a single unit" what makes you think they are reserved as "separate units" but for some reason come on as a whole single unit, unless a special transport is involved?

To me the whole point of the FAQ was to make sure that the transport (i.e. vendetta) was separate to the rest of the platoon.

 Griddlelol wrote:
That doesn't really hold water. Platoons are rather unique in that respect and it explicitly says that the whole platoon is rolled for when making reserve rolls.

IF the platoon is in reserve you roll once for all parts of it that are in reserve but not aboard non-dedicated transports. This just covers what you do in a situation where some units from a platoon are in reserve, it doesn't tell you that you can't split it in to reserve and non-reserve units.

 Griddlelol wrote:

Surely that part backs up the idea of them reserving as a whole not as individual units. If a platoon is "deployed in place of a single unit" what makes you think they are reserved as "separate units" but for some reason come on as a whole single unit, unless a special transport is involved?

Please read the FAQ excerpt again.

I've quoted the relevant bit several times. It's only "deployed in place of a single unit" when the mission limits unit deployment. The entire FAQ entry refers to these instances. Since these instances are nonexistent in 6th ed, that bit of the FAQ is irrelevant.

Unless you run a house-mission that limits unit deployment. But that is equally irrelevant.