the main reason was that the mossinians have the added protection of a gun emplacement (which gives them a 5+ cover save) which does not fit in with the idea of this force. that being said, i think the unit needs some more twiddling. i'll continue that line of thought in the development thread, as well as addressing your other concerns.
my thoughts on the battle where as follows:
the daemons where less effective in fighting and/or absorbing gunfire than i thought, but they did help. their main value came from being able to create infiltrators and scouts as needed which was quite useful in parts.
the harbinger bomber performed excellently, but i am not sure it's worth the price of 4 helltalons+change. (or infact, it's only 25 points less than an artillery warband with an even higher BP ratio)
without leaders, the infantry units really are vulnerable to blast marker accumulation, and their relative unwillingness to rally was quite a frustration at times. still, for the most part, my army fought much the way it was intended to.
my only real thought on the chaos squats was that their transports where incredibly useful, making them much faster than my own troops, and providing their infantry with added protection. it was not so much that i though they where undercosted (although there was a large number of units on the table that all seemed pretty darn decent) but more that such speed was not something i expected to see from a squat list.
likewise the rezhak seems quite good when compared against warhounds. i know lance isnt as good as macroweapon, but on a barrage (which is apparently a scary thing) and with that kind of range, i'm not sure it's much less survivable than a warhound (4dc vs 3dc 2 shields)
i made numerous little mistakes throughout the game (but not any really big ones that i can recall) but the one that stings the most was how i took on the BTS in turn 4. i should have sent the warpstrikes in first, with 3 heavy stubbers, i might have been able to kill that remaining infantry, leaving the transports broken. then, firing on them with my usurpers (which unlike the warpstrikes, could hit whereever they wanted) would have killed the rest of the formation. alas.
a good game, and a very thorough report. thanks for taking these guys out for a spin.
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