Okay, yes, a warstrider is useful if you're fighting a militia of peasant billmen.<br/><br/>Of course, in exalted, a single first circle demon would have a pretty decent chance of slaughtering a militia of peasant billmen.  A warstrider is a really inneficient weapon to use against massed infantry, since your pure size means you're likely to face getting mobbed by 5 opponents sooner rather than later, and the minimum damage rules in mass combat quickly mean you'll be getting pinged for four or five dice of damage several times a round, given a competent general.  It only takes a mob of about 300 peasants or so to really ruin a warstrider's day, provided their leader is charismatic enough to keep them in the fight.<br/><br/>Bring in elite hammer infantry, with a damage rating of 4 piercing, and the situation suddenly gets really really bad for the warstrider pilot.<br/><br/>Warstriders aren't only weak against anti warstrider weapons, they're weak against everything.  Factor in the hearthstone, the mega attunement, and the support logistics, and it becomes a big pile of shit in a shit sandwitch because they simply can't survive very well on the battlefield.<br/><br/><br/>The only real time a RAW warstrider is handy is if you're fighting a behemoth, and then only if the behemoth has a bigger attack dice pool than your dodge DV can take.   (or if you'll get bored to death slowly pinging it to death.)