Berserk vs Awe

[Olive]

Hi,

When an unit becomes berserk, does it make a check before attacking an unit with the attribute awe or does it attack automatically ?

Can't search +awe +berserk, awe is too short for the search engine...

[Gregstrom]

Awe forces a morale check before attacking - berserkers can't fail morale checks. I can't say for sure whether a berserk unit has to make the check, but it's pretty much immaterial because the attack would go through anyway.

It's the same for mindless, of course.

[Olive]

I shouldn't have forged all those shields of gleaming gold then.

Thanks.

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

Awe forces a morale check before attacking - berserkers can't fail morale checks. I can't say for sure whether a berserk unit has to make the check, but it's pretty much immaterial because the attack would go through anyway.

It's the same for mindless, of course.

Ignore awe, ignore repel... more reasons to love that big Nature bless.
-ssj

[ano]

This shield is good even without counting awe. It has very good stats.

[Aezeal]

And I'm sure not all opponents are beserk unless you play a very strangely modded game

[Heinrich]

Could be.

[Olive]

Originally Posted by Aezeal

And I'm sure not all opponents are beserk unless you play a very strangely modded game

The tough ones are (Ashdod's giants).

[chrispedersen]

Leech, frozen heart, orblightning spam, skelly or swarm spam.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Olive

The tough ones are (Ashdod's giants).

Berserkers, including Ashdod's giants, won't go berserk until they're damaged, unless someone has cast Touch of Madness of them. In practice this means that the Shield of Gleaming Gold's Awe will still work against most berserkers except ones you're actively beating on, so it still has some crowd control benefit.

(Sometimes berserkers will berserk themselves if you Repel them, though. This won't happen with Ashdod's giants because they have long weapons that can't be easily Repelled, but it happens frequently to Maenads.)

On the other hand, Awe isn't tremendously useful against elite (i.e. high-morale) troops anyway, and especially not against blessed sacreds who tend to have several stars of experience (Ashdod's giants). An Eye Shield, on the other hand, would be great against Ashdod.

-Max