The way I read it is that the death ray doesn't hit ALL members of the squad it passes over just the ones under the line?
Death ray states Every unit (friendly or enemy) underneath the line suffers a number of hits equal to the number of models in the unit underneath the line
Am I missing something?, I played my first game with the new crons yesterday and was convinced me it was how it was above but obv the initial rumours said otherwise
Edit: Whoops just saw the OP edited the original statement and missed the bit at the bottom...my bad