After a successful RD check the squad leader is placed on the deployment point. Do I immediately deploy the rest of the squad within three inches or does the squad leader have to complete their action before continuing to deploy and activate one by one? My reading was that the whole squad deploys simultaneously and then activates, but from browsing forum posts it seems people are playing it both ways. I can't seem to find anything in the rules that explicitly states that this works one way or the other. Is "deploy" a game term that is defined somewhere? Area denial abilities (like Venusian Ranger mines) seem designed to protect against RD, but if the squad deploys one by one then what happens if the squad leader sets off a mine (as RD counts as a move action) and is subsequently killed? Does the rest of the squad still deploy?

You deploy the whole squad and then Activate models one by one.

... Which would mean that the mine you mentioned would go off after all models are placed but before they are activated.

Awesome, thanks guys.