In response to a point made earlier with the steamborg and soft cover. Hoffman would cancel that out if he was in base contact with the steamborg.
This is due to Dampening : No blasts, pulses or aura's can be placed or originate within 3" of Hoffman unless it is the Hoff's activation, so the steamborg would not get to use the cloud cover (Though the hoff still could, though that would defeat an ability of the steamborgs as the hoff would need to use a 0 and a 1 action to make the cloud)