Infantry Squad

Infantry Squads have the option of forming Combined Squads. The decision to form Combined Squads must be made at deployment. If the Imperial Guard player wishes to deploy his forces in this way then any Infantry Squad may join another Infantry Squad from the same platoon. For example, an Infantry Platoon consisting of a Platoon Command Squad and three ten-man Infantry squads can instead choose to deploy as a Platoon Command Squad and a single thirty-man Infantry squad, or a Platoon Command Squad, a ten-man Infantry Squad and a twenty-man Infantry Squad. Combined Squads may not embark into vehicles that have insufficient transport capacity to carry the entire Combined Squad.

If you decide to form any squads into larger units, then they are of course treated as a single unit from that point. Combined Squads may not split up into their constituent component units again during the game.

Models equipped with assault grenades don’t suffer the penalty to their Initiative for assaulting enemies through cover, but fight as normal.