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Hello everyone, just a quick query.

If gaunts with WON suffer a deep strike mishap and are destroyed are they allowed to return to the game?

WON: Any brood Without Number that is removed from play may be brought back into play at the beginning of the next Tyranid turn.

Ultimately the question is...is a squad of gaunts that never reaches the table considered to have entered play for the WON ability to take effect?

Well, Planetstrike is Mini Apoc, so the easiest thing to do is work it out yourselves.

Also, I would say yes. They have been removed from play because they DeepStrike Mishaped, so they get to come in next turn because of WoN.

I would say yes.

Yes, they would be allowed to return using WoN.

There is a distinct error in that, To be removed from play requires them to be in play. Being in play is a state after deployment. Deepstriking is deployment.

Thus if you suffered a mishap and could not deploy, how could you ever be removed from play?

So I would have to say no, since they were never "in play" to be removed.

The first step of a Deep Strike is to put a model from the unit on the table...

As it's representing the whole unit, I think it's fair enough to treat the whole unit as "removed from play" in the event of a mishap.