Fear?

[Endoperez]

Fear works best when combined with awe. Prince of Death with high Death (it adds to fear), dominion 9 or 10 (for awe) and some armor can work miracles.

[MaxWilson]

Fear does indeed stack. In response to another thread, I tested 10 Iron Warriors-buffed Umbrals vs. 40 Hydras. The Hydras could barely scratch the umbrals (probably not enough to force a morale check, maybe 9 damage or less to three or four umbrals each round, easily healed by drain) and several hydras died ignominious deaths... and then suddenly all the umbrals broke and ran away. Apparently, hydras have fear +0.

If not for the fear, the umbrals would have wiped the floor with the hydras. I repeated the battle after giving the umbrals morale 99, and lo and behold, all the hydras died without any losses to the umbrals. (Not quite true. The first time I tried this, one hydra was still alive when all the umbrals routed. I don't know if this was fear overcoming morale 99, or just the 50 turn limit autoroute. The second time, all the hydras died. Most of the umbrals picked up a couple of afflictions.) So, fear can sometimes save your bacon.

-Max

-Max