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				 Re: Random New Questions 
 
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					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 |  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
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