Lord Commissar, conscripts and camocloaks

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**loner**

Hey,

Today I had a small talk with a friend. He said that you could give your Lord Commissar a camocloak and if you attached the Lord Commissar to a unit of conscripts, all the conscripts would have stealth. (Thus granting +1 on the coversave.)
While it sounds good, I ain't sure.
Can anyone confirm this?

**nosferatu1001**

That is fine. Main BRB FAQ, from memory

**Jidmah**

Yup, works that way. Search BRB FAQ for "stealth".

**loner**

This is going to cause a lot of horrible jokes...
"Quick little boys, hide under my jacket so that no one sees us!"
I'm going to field such a unit!

**Jidmah**

Just model him with a really, really huge coat.

**nosferatu1001**

Or have him saying:

"be vewwy, vewwy quiet. were hunting tywanids!"

**loner**

I'm getting a feeling like:

or

and finally:

**Tmonster**

haha, i think it won't be so good for my dark eldar to have told you this...

**Grakmar**

For more detail, see here: http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1620222a_40k_Rulebook_version_1_2.pdf

Q: If only some of the models in a unit have the Stealth
special rule, does the whole unit benefit from the +1 cover
save? (p76)
A: Yes. In effect the ones with the Stealth special rule
ensure their colleagues also find good places to hide.

**loner**

Tmonster wrote:haha, i think it won't be so good for my dark eldar to have told you this...

"The majority of my army has splintercannons."

**insaniak**

loner wrote: He said that you could give your Lord Commissar a camocloak and if you attached the Lord Commissar to a unit of conscripts, all the conscripts would have stealth.

A small nitpick on this.

The conscripts don't all get Stealth. They all received the benefit of it, because Stealth affects the unit rather than just the model that has it. But only the model with the cloak actually has the Stealth USR.

In game terms it doesn't at this point make a lot of difference... but if there was something, for example, that specifically affected models with Stealth, only the model with the camocloak would be affected. And if he dies, the unit loses the benefit, as they don't themselves have the rule.