Quote Originally Posted by Izsha View Post
No you are failing to understand the difference in an actions purpose and how it achieves that purpose.
And you're deliberately avoiding an important difference between those actions, that I already explained, precisely that addionnal effects are redirected with Cover and not with any other way of mitigating damage on someone else. The sad part is that this is essential on what makes Cover strategic, allowing to bypass some movements or tank swaps, which is an important concern when imagining a tank that isn't supposed to "main" tank.