Frighten and Terror confuse instead of scaring

[Saulot]

Yes, that area refers to the fear ability which is different from the area for the spells (which is always specified in the spell).

[MaxWilson]

Saulot,

I know the manual says Terror just forces a morale check, but I've observed that hitting units with Terror lowers their morale, whereas I don't know of anything else other than starvation that affects morale. There was a recent thread on Terror effects, and someone posted that they've seen units rout without even taking damage, only Terror, so it definitely does cause a morale check. But it also lowers morale directly, somehow.

-Max

[Saulot]

I've observed that morale lowering effect as well, both in terms of the fear unit ability (such as is found on a POD), and the terror spell.

What I haven't figured out, or have seen a formula for, is how exactly that morale lowering aspect of fear works.

[llamabeast]

I can confirm both Frighten and Terror both reduce morale and cause morale checks. You can see people end up with negative morale quite quickly. Then they run away. They're quite effective spells.

[Ironhawk]

Are you sure about that llamabeast? I thought I recalled KO saying that Frighten lowered morale but didnt cause a morale check. But that Terror did.

[llamabeast]

Later on in the thread he said it did cause a morale check after all I think.

I'm pretty sure because in one MP game my expansion just consisted of about 6 mages casting frighten and a meatshield. Several times the enemy ran away without ever reaching my troops (and I had no archers). Of course I could be misremembering.

[Kristoffer O]

> Later on in the thread he said it did cause a morale check after all I think.

Yep. I think I did, but I always forgets this stuff, since it was otherwise in earlier versions of dominions. When inspecting frighten it apears to work as terror but with smaller area. Thus forcing a check as well as lowering morale. Making it quite nice.