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I want to confirm what I think: Vehicles with smoke cannot take cover saves against template weapons, right?
The BRB says "Because template weapons bathe the area in burning fuel, cover saves are ignored when resolving wounds" (p. 29), it says nothing about penetrating and glancing hits.

So what do you do?

Firstly, ignore the statement about "saves can only be taken against wounds". Sure that's what the book says, but we all know that if a vehicle gets a cover save, of course it means against the penetrating hit/glancing hit.

Sorted? Awesome.

Now to answer your question, vehicles would NOT get cover saves against flamer weapons. Flamer weapons specifically ignore such saves, same goes for vehicles.

Besides, the section on vehicles and cover saves say they may take them "exactly like a non-vehicle model would against a wound".

Yep. It tells you to treat them as if they were wounds.

And you are told, in tyhe template section, that they ignore cover saves.