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Thumbing through my ork codex brought me to the bikers selection, saying that all bikes have the "exhaust cloud" special rule, conferring a 4+ cover save to bikes. This is all and well acceptable until you consider that 6th ed gave bikes jink as a USR.
My question is: does exhaust cloud and jink stack, and how?
My understanding of the material is that ork bikers should be getting a 3 or possibly 2+ Cover save.
Any other inputs?

Saves from different sources do not stack. However, certain special rules or wargear can improve existing saves.

As stated by Happyjew cover saves from different sources don't stack
for example your ork bikers behind ruins would still use a 4+ cover save. Only rules saying it improves or stack with another cover save do. The exhaust cloud doesn't.

No stack

You just simply get two differnet cover saves, and as per the rules for multiple saves you pick the best, meaning (usually) the Exhaust Cloud

^ pretty much that
my question is does it stack with night fighting or does excluad already count as stealth and shrouded? most im aware of is ur getting a 4+ from any shooting attack unless some sort of tau cheese.

Thanks for the clarification!

 Orkimedezz wrote:
^ pretty much that
my question is does it stack with night fighting or does excluad already count as stealth and shrouded? most im aware of is ur getting a 4+ from any shooting attack unless some sort of tau cheese.

It is a cover save, so anything that improves a cover save would improve the exhaust cloud

 Orkimedezz wrote:
^ pretty much that
my question is does it stack with night fighting or does excluad already count as stealth and shrouded? most im aware of is ur getting a 4+ from any shooting attack unless some sort of tau cheese.

They have neither Stealth nor Shrouded. The have Exhaust cloud.
They'll gain the benefit of Night Fighting just fine.

 grendel083 wrote:

 Orkimedezz wrote:
^ pretty much that
my question is does it stack with night fighting or does excluad already count as stealth and shrouded? most im aware of is ur getting a 4+ from any shooting attack unless some sort of tau cheese.

They have neither Stealth nor Shrouded. The have Exhaust cloud.
They'll gain the benefit of Night Fighting just fine.

oh ok cool ty

If a tau player removes the cover save for orks then... do they need to do it twice to remove both saves?

Unless they use the M3S?

The markerlights grant ignores cover to the firing unit's weapons, so they won't get cover saves at all.

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Unlike Markerlights, it is relevant for things like Eldar Dark Reapers, which will ignore the Jink save but not the Exhaust Cloud.