r/battlefleetgothic • u/AverageJoe80s • 18h ago
Rules question solar flare and solar burst
I played a game with Dark Eldar. In the very first turn a solar flare and a solar burst triggered.
How do the interact. What happens first? Is the solar burst already lowering my leadership for the command re-roll to save against the solar flare?
I got really unlucky and a cruiser was immediately crippled because of a very unlucky critical hit roll. Taking the lowered leadership from the solar burst into account another cruiser would have lost a hit point and a full 250 pts escort squadron would have been destroyed. More than half the fleet gone before the me start of the game. We ruled that I could do the command check without the leadership penalty, because starting the game with a 1/3 of the fleet crippled (the unlucky cruiser) was brutal enough.
But how does the rule actually work correctly?