Fear mechanics

[MaxWilson]

Kristoffer O said:
I'm starting to think that you should not trust what I'm saying, so I'll say some more to confuse matters further

- Moral loss might have replaced the fear bonus
- Morale loss (and gain from standards) gets halved each round.
- Morale regain will only affect those not in melee.

Neither of these comes from trusted sources, they come from me.
JK is on vacation playing golf or something, so he can't shed light on matters

It turns out that morale regain can affect those in melee after all. See the final arena battle in the attached. At one point the Van's morale goes from 12 back up to 16, just before he dies.

-Max

[MaxWilson]

I'm not sure if you need a copy of my active mods in order to run that. Just in case, here's my mods directory.

-Max

[MaxWilson]

A couple of other fear-related findings:

1.) I verified Sombre's statement. Modding morale to 99 does not make units go berserk. It does, however, make them behave strangely (cast Ironskin graphic on themselves every turn while not actually casting the spell) and then eat up all your computer memory on Vista. Conclusion: don't mod morale to 99.

2.) Morale 30 is (virtually?) immune to Fear. A small squad of Ditanu (4 + 1 Malik) fought defeated 200 Hydras where Iron Warrior'ed Umbrals would invariable route (even without taking any damage). The Ditanu's morale never dropped below 30 that I saw. Either Fear just doesn't work against Morale 30 units, or the Morale drop is an opposed roll vs. Morale.

-Max