Fear?

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Coldshard said:Also, does anyone know how Fear from different sources stack? The commander above started with Fear +5 and the manual says that the Gift of Kangi gives Fear +25.. there shouldnt be any other factors in play there such as death magic or anything.

The issue going on here is that "Fear +0" is way better than baseline. Somewhere in the manual, it points out that adding "Awe +0" (from Dom 9) to a pretender chassis that already has "Awe +0" will result in a total of "Awe +2". 0+0=2, right? The math is actually 2+2=4, where the printed "Awe" value is the mathematical value -2, because minimum awe is (apparently) -2.

For fear, I believe the numerical value of "Fear +0" is about 5. (Can you get troops with "Fear -5"? You could in Dom2, haven't checked lately.) Therefore, instead of 5+25=35, you have 10+30=40... which prints out the "Fear +35" value you see.


In summary, for some attributes (Fear/Awe), the mathematical value is higher than the printed/effective value, because "+0" is not equal to "nonexistent". They stack according to the mathematical value; the conversion from mathematical to printed/effective is done last.