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[Arcturas]

Oops, almost forgot: How do terror/frighten work? Do theyf orce the targeted enemy units to take morale checks ala fear, or do they lower he enemy morale, or both?

[Amonchakad]

Originally Posted by Arcturas

Oops, almost forgot: How do terror/frighten work? Do theyf orce the targeted enemy units to take morale checks ala fear, or do they lower he enemy morale, or both?

I just ran a test game, and here are the conclusions:

- Frighten lowers morale by 6, it stacks, and it looks like it doesn't enfore a morale check

-Terror lowers morale by 5, stacks with both itself and frighten, and looks like it forces a check (i had a squad routing immediately after terror without taking a single hit,so it should be that)

As i said they stack,so they can even reduce morale to negative with repeated castings, but the affected unit recover morale, getting back to the original value after 2-3 turns


While I'm here, can anyone answer another newb question?
I'v read in a lot of posts that, theorically, enemy dominion with good scales doesn't affect your lands(so at best you can remove your negative scale,but the enemy's Order and Production won't help).Now, I've ran some tests and it looks like an enemy's good dominion helps just as a friendly one; was this changed in a patch or what?

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Amonchakad

I just ran a test game, and here are the conclusions:

- Frighten lowers morale by 6, it stacks, and it looks like it doesn't enfore a morale check

-Terror lowers morale by 5, stacks with both itself and frighten, and looks like it forces a check (i had a squad routing immediately after terror without taking a single hit,so it should be that)

As i said they stack,so they can even reduce morale to negative with repeated castings, but the affected unit recover morale, getting back to the original value after 2-3 turns

The effects of Fear (Frighten/Terror/etc.) are highly variable, sometimes a single casting will reduce morale by 10 or more and sometimes it leaves it untouched. I'm not sure what the pattern is, but high-morale units seem less likely to take a big Morale hit than low-morale units, so perhaps it decreases Morale by some fraction of the margin of failure. According to the manual, a unit which has lowered Morale from Fear will recover 1/2 of its Morale every turn (so if you're down 10 on turn 1 you'll be down 5 next turn and then down 2 and then down 1 and then back at full Morale) and this generally accords with what I see in practice.

-Max