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So it occurred to me that with Ynnari coming in May's WD, now might be a good time to get completely new rules for the nearly unusable WWG.
After all, the WWG can be seen in the Ynnari teaser for their new rules coming soon.

Currently the WWGs deployment rules are so restrictive compared to it's size, that it's entirely possible for it to be illegal to place at all. That's ridiculous
So my suggestion for its deployment would be to remove the "must be outside 3" of all other terrain" nonsense and just allow it to be deployed like any other Fortification.
Maybe just add that is cannot be deployed on top of any other terrain feature, but next to them is fine.

It wouldn't even matter if you had to deploy it in your DZ (rather than your table half), because while not ideal, at least you'd be able to deploy it every game.

Next, the WWG stratagems need to be available for taking the WWG, not a Harlequin detachment Stratagem.
Fix those 2 things, and the WWG is instantly playable, although possibly still not great

Finally, and this is probably never going to happen, it would be nice if there was a Matched Play Stratagem that allowed the WWG to be used to bring in a unit in Turn 1

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+1 to please redo WWG.

Not sure what the appropriate answer is. It almost feels like it should be a fortification/terrain piece placed before either units or possibly even sides being picked. It also needs a more fluid use; it's wonky that you have to set units aside from it, and then something *really* bad happens if it's destroyed.

I also think Fortifications in general need to be redone. Having to take up a whole detachment is never going to allow them to be good.

It would be nice if the BRB gave a rule for the Fort Network detachment that it never counts toward max # of detachments and Army can have, but you can only even include 1 Fort Network.
Or include 1 Fort slot in a Battalion

But I've got my fingers crossed that the WD update to Ynnari includes updated rules for the WWG too. The fact that the "Next Month" Ynnari teaser has the WWG in the background makes me hopeful.

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Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

The Webway gate is the only other Aeldari model that isn't CWE, DE or Harly, so fits pretty well with the Ynnari theme.
It's also the latest Aeldari kit released (because the spiritseer isn't available by itself yet, like the Blackstone ranger).
I also hope the rules get a rewrite, but sadly there are other explanations for it to be on that image. On top of that, its rules are in a codex, whereas the Ynnari one are in the obsolete Index and in the box, so not really available by themselves.