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Hello fellow dakkas! I have a question reguarding the Tau Razorshark strike fighter and its Fighter ace+Dpods combo. It says for stealth roll you can get +1 to your cover save up to a max of 3 which makes sense of limitations, but when paired with D-pods which do not have limitations does that mean you do the fighter aces 3+ cover and get your +1 for Dpods or you can still only get a max of 3 because of the ability?

All addition / subtraction modifiers (the +1's) are worked out at the same time, and then any set modifiers (the maximum of 3+) are applied. If you use the improvement from Stealth Shielding to get past a 3+, you have broken a rule.

Note that this is the same as the Mark of Tzeentch (which improves invulnerable saves by +1 to a maximum of 3+), and a 10-page thread on the topic (from 2013, but nothing really has changed in the relevant rules) with a 51%/49% split poll can be found here. So bear in mind that the community is split on it.