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I was playing a game against someone and he was playing Tau.

He used Farsight with 7 bodyguards and deepstruck them near my land raider. My landraider got wrecked because most of them had fusion blasters.
I tried to kill the entire squad but only managed to kill 4 of them. The 3 remaining suits and farsight jumped of the table and into ongoing reserves.

The turn after that, he wanted to deepstrike again with the same unit, is this even allowed? I don't find any ruling restricting this so I went with it, but it seems overly powerful. It makes keeping units to the side of the board stupidly unviable because you're essentially giving your opponent double deepstrike opportunity.

Only Flyers and FMCs have permission to move off the table and go into ongoing reserves.

DaPino wrote:
The 3 remaining suits and farsight jumped of the table and into ongoing reserves.

Using what rules? He's not allowed to just jump off the table any time he wants without a rule allowing it, and I'm not aware of one.

in the small rule book the only thing it mentions being able to do that is flyers but i think that's just an example.

I think I've heard that swooping hawks can do it as well.

I've never read of any rule or unit or seen any unit ever return to reserves apart from those mentioned above

Swooping Hawks from Codex: Eldar have a special rule allowing this.

Commander Farsight and crew most certainly do not.

Yeah your buddy cheated hard on that one...

Flyers, FMCs and Swooping Hawks can leave the board voluntarily and enter Ongoing Reserves. Any of these units can re-enter play by DS providing they have the DS rule and were placed in DS Reserve at the start of he game.