Fear?

[Ironhawk]

Digress said:
The False Horrors fly in and then get trampled by elephants with minus something (-5 to -1) morale.

Yes.

Don't use false horrors against things that can trample them. Or armies with lots of arrows, as they ignore defense and can mass thier attacks easily to break ethereal.

[Digress]

In my example I didn't really need them (the false horrors) to stick around very long - kept spamming them hoping to generate more morale checks. At least one a Horror - assuming that morale checks are carried out BEFORE melee combat.

I guess the Strategoi standards are stacking and helping in the battles I lost.

Should you see the effects of the standards in the battle replay ? The units further away from the standards seem to have the worst morale but even the units near the standards have pretty poor morale.