[Tuidjy]

Fear can surprise you. In my current game, I have an abomination with the Gift
of Kurgi, and the enemy squads rout pretty much as soon as it hits them. It has
Fear + 33, and enough attacks to clear two full squares per turn. The enemy
routs so quickly that unless I have cut off retreat routes, it's not worth
attacking armies, as they rout without significant casualties.

In another battle last turn, I was at the receiving end of fear, in a rather
ridiculous situation. It was a battle of 50 enemy mages/SCs and 700 medium sized
summons against a dozen of my commanders. At some point in the battle, I had
five SCs left on the field, all of the enemies were unconscious, and I was
getting the "The armies of T'ien Ch'i are routed" message. My guys had both
Relief and Mass Regeneration, so that they were neither hurt nor tired.
Basically, it was all over but the slaughter. Well, one of the commanders
waiting to have his throats cut happened to be a Tartarian Spirit, which had the
underwhelming Fear+2 ability. So one of my Jarls approaches, takes a look at
the unconscious spirit, and turn to run, despite having a morale rating of 23,
full health, and no conscious, non-routed opponents. A friends who was watching
suggested that the Jarl remembered that he needed to feed his pet dragon.