I'd say it leans forward because I've had standards in the back (I like to put them on Guard Commander around a Commander who was set to Stay behind Troops) and not have the units break without using Sermon of Courage and taking significant losses. It could be that they don't lean forward but lean wherever they want, but I can't say for sure.

Edit: For Fear I use Fear alot and I often (read: Most of the time) have enemies break before they can close in on the fear producing unit by a cast of a spell or something similiar that might cause a 'morale' check but wouldn't rout an army normally without the fear in place.

Good ones to test this with are dragons, Medusa and others with Cause Fear as their base ability, then pump some Death into them to increase it's AOE where you want to test, and cast a spell like Flying Shards, of Fire Darts or something and 'gauge' it.

Like I said it may do some sort of Triangle, or Diamond shaped AOE around the center, but I've found it mostly goes forward in what I can really test without looking at the dev formula.

[ January 31, 2004, 02:47: Message edited by: Zen ]