Hosts of Bats - when this additional body check?

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Konrad Klar
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Host of Bats wrote:Against each company, one Orc hazard creature may be played that does not count against the hazard limit. Any character wounded by an Orc attack makes an additional body check modified by -1. Additionally, if Shadow of Mordor is in play, any character wounded by any attack keyed to (or an automatic-attack at) a Shadow-hold [S] or a Dark-hold [D] makes an additional body check modified by -2. Cannot be duplicated.
CRF, Turn Sequence, Combat, Attack, Strike Sequence wrote:Annotation 19: Following each successful strike or failed strike, a body check must be rolled (unless the failed strike has no body). However, if the strike calls for any special actions to follow it (e.g., a character wounded by "William" may be required to discard his items), these special actions are resolved before the body check. The body check is the first declared action in a nested chain of effects that immediately
follows the strike dice-roll and special actions resulting from the strike. Other actions may be declared in response to a body check, in the same chain of effects, but these are limited to those actions that directly affect the body check dice- roll. E.g., Tookish Blood could not be declared in response to the body check caused by Giant Spiders wounding a Hobbit. No action may be declared in response to a special action resulting from a strike unless the special action is a dice-rolling action, i.e., a special action is generally considered synonymous with the strike dice-roll. If the special action is a dice-rolling action, an action may be declared in response to it if the action directly affects the dice-roll.
Underline by me.

Name "additional body check" may indicate that this body check takes place after first body check. However according Annotation 19: special actions caused by wounding are declared before bc.

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Bandobras Took
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It seems like the extra body check is a special action to be done before the body check caused by wounding, isn't it?
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That makes sense.
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