Effect of cover rolls on cumulative hits

[elindo]

This one is the Dr.'s but none the less, hasn't been answered.

Question: A successful cover roll limits the effect of an attack to Disruption (ref rulebook p.24).
Does a successful cover roll change the number of hits?

Example:
Unit A attacks an undamaged Vehicle in cover and scores 2 hits. Without cover the result would be to place both a Disrupted and a Damaged counter on the Vehicle. In this example, the Vehicle makes a successful cover roll and the effect of the attack is limited to Disruption.

Here is where the confusion begins. Rulebook p.24:
(on a successful cover roll) If the unit already has a face-down Disrupted counter, don't place another counter.

So the Vehicle has a single, face-down Disrupted counter at the end of Unit A's attack.

Now Unit B attacks the same Vehicle and rolls successes equal to the Vehicle's defense (1 Hit). The Vehicle then fails its cover roll. What is the effect of the attack?

Possible Answer #1:
The Vehicle has 1 Hit from A's attack and 1 Hit from B's attack for a total of two Hits, resulting in face-down Disruption and Damage counters.

Rules text supporting this interpretation: Rulebook p.16
Hits: If you score hits against an enemy unit during your assault phase, place face-down counters next to it.
- The first hit counter ... Disrupted.
- The second hit counter ... Damaged.

Rulebook p.24 says on a made save roll to not place a second Disrupted counter, therefore the vehicle would have one counter (Hit) from the first attack.

Possible Answer #2:
The Vehicle has 2 Hits from A's attack and 1 Hit from B's attack for a total of three hits, resulting in a Destroyed counter.

Rules text supporting this interpretation:
The cover save rules on page 24 are vague as to whether or not a successful cover save changes the number of hits. Was the instruction to not place a second face-down Disrupted counter meant to change the number of Hits or was it merely a reminder that a second face-down Disrupted counter has no game effect?

[Y2UAsk]

Possible Answer #1 is correct.

Steve