As it currently stands the Deth Scythe is pretty Broken (depending on who you are playing). Due to descrepancies in the reading of the rules the Death Ray Can or Cannot hit EVERY MODEL IN THE UNIT THE LINE TOUCHES! So a ST 10 AP 1 Ray of death will HIT EVERY MODEL in the unit! No rolling to hit no scattering no NOTHING! Here is how a game played out.
He has 3 Doom Scythes I am playing Drop pdding Space Marines.
Turn 1
I drop 2 dreads and a Dev squad, and manage to kill a DS with the Dreads shooting
He then rune his line through the pods the dreads and the Dev squad, breaking a dread and killing all but two out of five Devestators
Turn 2 Terminators deepstrike in which are quickly bogged down by scarbs (10 of them)
10 Scarabs move 27" to assault the remaining dread and kill it due to ENTROPIC Strikes
Turn 3 Two Tactical Squads drop in
1 Flamers a squad of scarabs and kills about 4 bases WOO
the other combi meltas a DS but rolls Poorly on the damage table ( a 1 which is ignored)
The Doom sythes Death ray squad 1 hitting ONE model but killing 7 of them and the other one Kills 5
Scarabs jump on the remaining squads and whittle them down to nothing.......
Granted I know I did not shoot for two turns, but c'mon! They really need to get an ENGLISH ERATTA out and FAST! See the DETH RAY thread in the rules section for more!