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Side tangenting from the discussion on Reserves/Reinforcements/T1 deployment zones; re-reading the rules made me think of a question:

"Finally, any unit that has not arrived on the battlefield by the end of the third battle round in a matched play game counts as having been destroyed."

Counts as having been destroyed isn't the same as, "IS DESTROYED", is it? If it is, why not just write that instead?

Is there a possibility that the units still in reserve give up VP as "having been destroyed", but can still enter the field and do their job; since technically they were merely "counting as" destroyed, and not actually "destroyed"?

fe40k wrote:
Side tangenting from the discussion on Reserves/Reinforcements/T1 deployment zones; re-reading the rules made me think of a question:

"Finally, any unit that has not arrived on the battlefield by the end of the third battle round in a matched play game counts as having been destroyed."

Counts as having been destroyed isn't the same as, "IS DESTROYED", is it? If it is, why not just write that instead?

Is there a possibility that the units still in reserve give up VP as "having been destroyed", but can still enter the field and do their job; since technically they were merely "counting as" destroyed, and not actually "destroyed"?

It means that for rules purposes, the answer to "is this unit destroyed" is yes, despite them not having been actually destroyed by being reduced to 0 wounds or some other destroy event.