Battlefield Birmingham 2013

[Sincilbanks]

Nope I think you're reading that bit right, however I came to my decision based on the Reserves rules in the book, page 124.

"When deploying their armies players can choose not to deploy up to half their units (rounding up) keeping them as reserves to arrive later."

Which, to me, says units in reserve do not count as deployed. There's a further explanation of the limits of what can stay in reserve but above is the bit I'm using to decide that units in reserve do not count as deployed, allowing you to combat squad them after the reserve roll has been met and you "deploy" them on the table. From that I deduce that units bought as 10's have to stay together in reserve and take a single red thirst and reserve roll. You can't decide to split units into combat squads in reserve because you "must decide which units are splitting into combat squads immediately before deployment" from the FAQ.

I might be wrong but, to me, that's the only interpretation which means the FAQ and the reserve rules are consistent with each other.

It is also, once again in my opinion, completely in line with the FAQ relating to combat squadding units that come out of a drop pod, you choose to combat squad when they deploy out of the DP.

As for the vehicle bit, I think that means you can put your rhino on the table from reserve and then tell your opponent "I have combat squadded this unit in the rhino, squad 1 has this and suqad 2 has this