[Digress]

In my example I didn't really need them (the false horrors) to stick around very long - kept spamming them hoping to generate more morale checks. At least one a Horror - assuming that morale checks are carried out BEFORE melee combat.

I guess the Strategoi standards are stacking and helping in the battles I lost.

Should you see the effects of the standards in the battle replay ? The units further away from the standards seem to have the worst morale but even the units near the standards have pretty poor morale.