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Have I been playing skimmers wrong? It was my understanding that I could force an enemy to use his FF value, but that any abilities he gets (First Strike, Extra Attacks, etc) for being in CC were still his to keep. Even so, the Spears couldn't then use their own Lance ability, and so still lose out, having a worse FF value and worse armor.
Again, I'm not talking about balance - it just strikes me as wrong that, point costs aside, the Hearthguard Cavalry are simply better units than are Shining Spears. This is completely different than discussing whether one is more useful than the other to its formation, or whether one is more useful given other abilities of the army and the like, this is simply about Hearthguard Cavalry being more offensively powerful than Shining Spears for a similarly sized model in a similar role. To give an example that might clarify my position a little bit - if Guardsmen were given 4+ RA, and then perfectly pointed so as to be completely balanced, there would still be something wrong. Guardsmen ought not to be as survivable as Terminators. That's my issue with the Hearthguard.
On the Hammerhead - it's very much characteristic of the Tau way of war, and so I imagine that it should be something that they can do better than anyone else. Epic rules for it give it a 4+ save and either an AP3/AT4/AA6 or an AP4/AT3, with obscene ranges on both. The Gyrocopter just really seems to be competing for this same sort of role, and, for the size of chassis and speed, seems to do it better than the Hammerhead. It could be slower because it mounts that tremendous Battlecannon, perhaps. Note that all of those other things you named carry much lighter weaponry, whereas the Battlecannon is the main armament of the gigantic Leman Russ. Eldar skimmers are an exception, of course, but that seems appropriate for them.
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