Heat blasters vs Shield Criticals

[locarno24]

Another quick rules question prompted by a game last night.
Finally tried a kurgan fleet other than a grimson-o-rama galliot wave, and a question popped up with the Heat Blaster trait. Rules quote:

Against a target with active Shields, a Heat Blaster will have the Inaccurate trait.

What about a target with flickering shields (shield critical level 1) - normal gunfire rolls to see if the hits go through the shields; do I get to roll to see if the Heat Blasters don't count as inaccurate for this volley?

 

[Greg Smith]

What about a target with flickering shields (shield critical level 1) - normal gunfire rolls to see if the hits go through the shields; do I get to roll to see if the Heat Blasters don't count as inaccurate for this volley?

Tht is certianly the way we play it.

 

[locarno24]

Cool.
As it happens, whilst the question came up, the situation didn't - literally immediately before I got to fire, I got hit by one single bloody rocket*, whcih with tiresome inevitability caused a weapons critical, giving them inaccurate regardless.

Still, worth remembering for next time.


* Kurgan vs Al-Malik - a.k.a. "Why are we even bothering to turn the shields on?"