Fear?

[Digress]

The manual seems to state pretty clearly that a squad that is exposed to fear then takes a morale check. It's listed along with a squad taking casualties (or wounds I think I remember it being termed).

I have used frighten in the past and you can really make your opponents morale drop but you have to make them take a morale check for them to rout. My understanding was that Terror causes fear - so in theory you could frighten to lower morale and then cast terror to generate a morale check.

My understanding was that fear yields a morale check and False Horrors have a fear aura or whatever its called.

[GameExtremist]

Don't forget Digress that in the midst of those elephant hordes are Strategoi commanders with morale enhancing standards. That helps a fair bit too I think.

[Kristoffer O]

Digress said:
The manual seems to state pretty clearly that a squad that is exposed to fear then takes a morale check. It's listed along with a squad taking casualties (or wounds I think I remember it being termed).

I have used frighten in the past and you can really make your opponents morale drop but you have to make them take a morale check for them to rout. My understanding was that Terror causes fear - so in theory you could frighten to lower morale and then cast terror to generate a morale check.

My understanding was that fear yields a morale check and False Horrors have a fear aura or whatever its called.

Correct. Fear lowers morale and forces a morale check. Frighten is a special case and it only lowers morale of the target, but if combined with a morale check (from casualties, fear spells or a fear aura) it is useful.

'Rat Tail' works like frighten. The unit struck by it has morale lowered significantly.

[llamabeast]

Are you sure about 'Frighten' Kristoffer? It is an AOE spell, just AOE 1.

[Kristoffer O]

llamabeast said:
Are you sure about 'Frighten' Kristoffer? It is an AOE spell, just AOE 1.

No, I'm not sure. I didn't know it was AoE1. I still think frighten is a special case, but I'm not sure anymore.

Hmm, after checking the code I'm starting to change my opinion. It might actually induce a morale check. which would make it quite powerful with regards to its low level.