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Three things...
Are you blobbing your PISs?
Anyone riding in the Vendettas?
Who is manning the Quad gun?
@Ghastli
GLs suck, period. You keep pushing them, but how you wounded any amount of flamers that are T 4 with a Str 3 weapon with a few shots just tells me your either insanily lucky or you were looking at the missle launcher entry instead of the GL entry..
I like sniper rifles because of the Rending rule, makes sense if your fighting a ton of high Toughness MCs or even a lot of Terminators. Though one can argue that plasma does the same thing, better without the random rolls of needing a 6 to wound. I feel ACs match up better with Sniper Rifles because they are similar in Str profile, specially against vehicles. If you fire those LCs against any 12+ AV vehicles, your just wasting the Sniper Rifle then. The PCS, for example, should be all sniper rifles or 2x Sniper rifles and a AC. Throw plasma guns in with any squads with lascannons. Throw ACs with Sniper Rifles/melta guns.
If your blobbing your PIS, where are the Commissars to keep them from running? Why do you not have a banner in your CCS for Leadership re-rolls? Your infantry are glass cannons, you can not ignore the morale factor concerning IG unless your in Chimeras... then you don't care, as a dead Chimera = dead squad 90% of the time. Foot Guard need Ld support.
Personally, I use a Lord Commissar on my Icarus LC on a ADL. I can even issue him orders if I do not use the intercept to make him twin linked ('Bring it Down!'). He is BS 5 and 80pts with a Camo Cloak, sitting behind a ADL... I am not going to bother spelling that out, but after seeing your CCS, I might have to... You don't like giving your Warlord a 2+ cover save? Do you even use Orders? For what you are telling me, 'Fire on my Target!' and 'Bring it Down!' should be used every freaking turn. A Lord Commissar gives a Leadership bubble of 6" for Orders, Morale, and pinning tests. Heck, you can even attach him to a squad (if you don't mind the risk of him blowing out the brains of someone on a failed roll) and give them Stealth as well. But he really shines with HWSs surrounding him (like LC HWSs). And get Forward Sentries on that Vet squad, for Pete's sake.
Speaking of Orders and a crap ton of units you can be giving orders to, why do you not have Creed then? Outflank your 2 Vendetta Squad and issue 4 Orders a turn. So you don't use 'For the Honor of Cadia!', eh... most are scared to be in melee as IG anyways, even though they are still decent with Power Axes and Melta bombs. And from what your telling me about your local meta, this is something you should be doing.
Vendettas with SWSs with 3 flamers or even 3 meltas (with a demo charge in there now and then) make excellent suicide troops. Grav Chute insert them in as you fly off the board and they could wreck something. IF not... they are cheap.
If your trying to win by throwing as many LCs as possible against your opponent, your doing it wrong. If your argument is "They run away when shot", you lose 2.5 per squad and they still run away along with your special weapon. IF you have a 50 man blob, getting 11 guys killed is still scary because your rolling 8 or less on two dice. With that many squads like that with such terrible Leadership, your going to be running off the board after the first barrage weapon hits. Think of this... 105pts for a LC HWS, at Ld 10 because of a Lord Commissar, Twin linked because of a Order... that is how you should be looking at that. Your squads absorb more fire power because the Commissar and the Banner give you a re-roll on leadership... oh wait, you only get one re-roll? Guess I will use the Banner and not worry about my Commissar killing my sergeant.
Sometimes a few less squads to make the ones you have better is the best route.
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Orks, 
Eldar, 
Lamentors, 
Pre-Heresy EC, 
CSM EC, and 
IG.