Dear fellow Space Marines and Gamemasters,

i am mastering our Killteam for quite a while now, but i still have questions:

Scenario A:

What happens when the Team is (completly) in Squadmode[Tactical Spacing eg.] - and then, in Battle, one of the Marines uses his solomode ability Emperors Grace.

Does the Squadability automatically end? Or may the Team pay cohesion to let him use Soloabilities in Squad Mode?

I want to know if the Marines MUST decide between Solo or Squadabilties - because my team is using both and i am not sure about the rules.

Scenario B:

Only one Marine ist left, the other has fallen oder are not in Support Range - may the single Space Marine use Squadabilities?

Thanks in advance

PS: If you have the page where i can look it up, it would be great!

Sadly, I don't have the book, but here goes:

Scenario A:

An individual marine is either in squad mode, or is in solo mode. The entire squad does not have to be in one or the other. It takes at least two marines to form a squad (besides that one advanced class in RoB that is intended more to allow a marine PC in a Dark Heresy game). A marine may only use the the abilities for their current mode. That is to say, if a marine is in solo mode, that individual may not benefit from the rest of the squad using squad mode abilities (and vice versa). In your case, that individual marine could drop out of squad mode (pretty sure its a free action to do so), and perform the solo mode ability, yes. They lose the benefit of any squad mode abilities. If they were playing a central role in using a squad mode ability, the squad mode ability will disengage.

Scenario B:

As above, it takes two marines to make a squad (unless he has that one RoB advanced class).

As far as page numbers go, all of this is going to be detailed in those first few pages regarding the modes.

RoB p 225 clarifies some about the solo abilities in Squad mode. if it's passive it works all the time no matter which mode. (Why would a SW smell worse in squad mode?) Active solo abilities may be used in squad mode at the cost of 1 cohesion.