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Do vostroyans roll out in platoons usually? Or do they tend to stick with chimeras?

Your question doesn't make any sense.

Fluffwise all 'line' squads belong to platoons, whether or not the squads are issued with chimeras or not.

If you mean combined squad rather than platoon, that's a game mechanic not an actual fluff thing.

No I mean that are vostroyans mostly veterans, or don't hey belong in infantry platoons as well?

 Dalymiddleboro wrote:
No I mean that are vostroyans mostly veterans, or don't hey belong in infantry platoons as well?

I think you're getting confused with fluff and crunch

While being no expert on Vostroyans, I'd imagine it would depend entirely on the regiment/brigade etc, what the task was e.g. Blitzkrieg or trench warfare, who the enemy is, and even what's available.

Vostroyans are no more veterans than any other IG Regiment. A given Vostroyan Regiment will have a number of old salts, a number of guys who've been there awhile but haven't yet "made the cut", and a bunch of fresh-faced "kids" or "FNGs" that replace the combat losses.

 Psienesis wrote:
Vostroyans are no more veterans than any other IG Regiment. A given Vostroyan Regiment will have a number of old salts, a number of guys who've been there awhile but haven't yet "made the cut", and a bunch of fresh-faced "kids" or "FNGs" that replace the combat losses.

"Unusually for the Imperial Guard, new levies are used to reinforce existing regiments in the field. This is not always easy to arrange, but ensures that Vostroyan regiments remain close to full strength and have a high ratio of veterans." ~ White Dwarf 317

Vostroyans are somewhat awkward.

They're all equipped with Carapace armor, but you wouldn't necessarily consider them all Veterans.

They were introduced in 4th edition, where you could give Platoons carapace armor as a Doctrine upgrade, as well as BS3.5 as they rerolled "1s" when shooting.. They weren't quite the most elite of units and formations, but were weren't normal levies either.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Vostroyans are somewhat awkward.

They're all equipped with Carapace armor, but you wouldn't necessarily consider them all Veterans.

They were introduced in 4th edition, where you could give Platoons carapace armor as a Doctrine upgrade, as well as BS3.5 as they rerolled "1s" when shooting.. They weren't quite the most elite of units and formations, but were weren't normal levies either.

So would a platoon blob of them look stupid?

Not technically no, it's just that the way GW originally wrote them is no longer supported by the rules.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Not technically no, it's just that the way GW originally wrote them is no longer supported by the rules.

I wanna run some vets in a chimera and have a big platoon blob with heavy weapon teams. I don't want my army to look stupid though.

I don't think anyone will care.

 Dalymiddleboro wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
Not technically no, it's just that the way GW originally wrote them is no longer supported by the rules.

I wanna run some vets in a chimera and have a big platoon blob with heavy weapon teams. I don't want my army to look stupid though.

That's fine, that's pretty much what the studio army at the time of release was.

 Gashrog wrote:

 Dalymiddleboro wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
Not technically no, it's just that the way GW originally wrote them is no longer supported by the rules.

I wanna run some vets in a chimera and have a big platoon blob with heavy weapon teams. I don't want my army to look stupid though.

That's fine, that's pretty much what the studio army at the time of release was.

So fluff wise, it makes sense to have vostroyans in platoons ?

Yes. They have been explicitly depicted as using Heavy and Special weapons squads, those were part of their Doctrines under 4E.

GW just didn't carry over the Carapace Armor option for platoons in 5E or 6E, which was odd.

 Gashrog wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Vostroyans are no more veterans than any other IG Regiment. A given Vostroyan Regiment will have a number of old salts, a number of guys who've been there awhile but haven't yet "made the cut", and a bunch of fresh-faced "kids" or "FNGs" that replace the combat losses.

"Unusually for the Imperial Guard, new levies are used to reinforce existing regiments in the field. This is not always easy to arrange, but ensures that Vostroyan regiments remain close to full strength and have a high ratio of veterans." ~ White Dwarf 317

What makes the Vostroyans unusual is that its FNGs are also Vostroyans, not some farmboys/girls they picked up while stopping to refuel the Troop Carrier at the last planet, nor the remnants of some kinda-sorta-similar Regiment from another world that got mauled in its last engagement and was down to ten guys and a broken-ass Chimera.

I've gotta admit, I'm kinda liking that Daly's taken an interest in fluffy strategies! I applaud you

 ChazSexington wrote:
I've gotta admit, I'm kinda liking that Daly's taken an interest in fluffy strategies! I applaud you

Appreciate it dude!! What can I say, imperial guard tends to give me more out of the hobby than just steamrolling people. Also, what's FNG?

 Dalymiddleboro wrote:

 ChazSexington wrote:
I've gotta admit, I'm kinda liking that Daly's taken an interest in fluffy strategies! I applaud you

Appreciate it dude!! What can I say, imperial guard tends to give me more out of the hobby than just steamrolling people. Also, what's FNG?

FNG= F**king New Guy.

Or 'Fresh new guy' to their faces when you're making fun of them.