[krpeters]

So I did some testing, with hilarious results.

Devata, friendly dominion, blessed, fire plate and dragon helmet. Comes in with 30 morale, blesses, still has 30, so 30 is the max morale allowed.

He stands and buffs while 40 ghosts eat one point of monkey PD. Then he attacks. On the second round of combat he has a morale of -64 (!!!) and flees. So nothing short of being mindless or berserk will protect against a sufficiently large ghost squad. !!!!

Or being a pretender -- I confirmed that the fear effect does *not* reduce the morale of a pretender. I don't know if it is a special pretender effect or any unit with a native 30 morale rather than buffed will behave the same. But buffing to 30 morale doesn't work.