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I've been scanning the IG lists and I must admit I am still very much confused about drop troops.

The codex says that a platoon counts as a single FOC, roll for reserves, but deployed separately. So my question is, if I choose to give the Drop Troop doctrine to special weapon squads or Officers with their staff, do I have to deepstrike the whole platoon or do the drop troops deepstrike and the rest move in from board edge? It is illegal to set up a platoon in normal deployment but keep the officer in charge in reserve to deepstrike?

Sorry if this is a common question but I cannot seem to find the answer.

Hmmm never had that come up. when you drop troops in you roll for each sqaud. but i put down a squad and droped the other one in, no one ever said i couldn't any one else have any imput i hope this helps you but tonight i'll read my dex and post

A unit (which drop troops uses) is not the same thing as a FOC chart selection.

You choose wether to drop a unit on a unit by unit basis per Drop Troops (the Jo's squad can drop and have the line squads deploy on the table).

In the deployment phase at the beginning of the game you deploy the units you are not dropping normally (in groups by FOC).

When you roll for reserves, you roll for FOC (all units in the FOC selection, so if you had the JO squad and a line squad you roll once for both) and deploy by FOC (but roll scatter per unit).

So a platoon with a JO and three line squads, with the JO and one additional squad held as drop troops would go:

Initial deployment, both line squads deploy on the same FOC troop selection at the same time.

When you sucessfully roll reserves for the platoon's FOC selection on one die you place both the JO squad and the line squad that was dropping but roll their scatter separately.

The best part is you get to decide how many of the platoon's squads drop vs deploy at the beginning of each game.

Excellent. That was what I was hoping was the answer. I was under the assumption that if part of a platoon drops, the entire platoon must drop.

Thank you for the clarification.