Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that any unit actually has morale that low. But the in game description says that average human morale is 10, 8 is low and 15 is high. I have a hard time understanding how 9 is "low". One less than average isn't really panicky, is it? It sure isn't in games when elephants are used against me.
Since I cannot find the thread that talked endlessly about fixing elephant rushes...I'll post this here. Why not just make it impossible to have animal and non-animal units in the same squad. It makes no sense anyway. A bunch of militia wouldn't be sharing a barracks with a bunch of war dogs, and no elite soldiers would fight right alongside elephants because of their unreliability. That way the Elephants 'relatively' low morale couldn't be boosted by high-morale units.
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