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JohnathanStrange
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Yes, right now food seems to be the only thing that affects morale. And nothing else - like resting - appears to matter enough to affect morale.
However, morale doesn't (as far as I can tell) affect anything else. If low morale is affecting combat ability or travel speed, I haven't noticed it and I've been experimenting with traveling with no food and constant warning messages that my warparty is starving: no effect on combat performance, no desertions either at 100% starvation level.
I'm not certain what you mean. That winning battles does affect morale in M&B? Not that I can tell, and again, I've been looking for effects like that.
OR...
Does ilex mean, "Winning battles in the real world should (but not necessarily do in M&B) increase morale?" That I would agree with.
ANYWAY, morale has been relatively neglected on the forums. The few times I or others mentioned it (and fatigue as well), it's virtually disappeared without a trace.
As long as these two factors are not included in the game (which is an excellent game & entertaining to play), then all our suggestions/discussion about "realism" seem hollow.
However, morale doesn't (as far as I can tell) affect anything else. If low morale is affecting combat ability or travel speed, I haven't noticed it and I've been experimenting with traveling with no food and constant warning messages that my warparty is starving: no effect on combat performance, no desertions either at 100% starvation level.
ilex said:
I'm not certain what you mean. That winning battles does affect morale in M&B? Not that I can tell, and again, I've been looking for effects like that.
OR...
Spadrik said:
Does ilex mean, "Winning battles in the real world should (but not necessarily do in M&B) increase morale?" That I would agree with.
ANYWAY, morale has been relatively neglected on the forums. The few times I or others mentioned it (and fatigue as well), it's virtually disappeared without a trace.
As long as these two factors are not included in the game (which is an excellent game & entertaining to play), then all our suggestions/discussion about "realism" seem hollow.
Spadrik
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If i'm quite honest i'm not 100% sure wha6t your saying now.
I think that winning battles in M&B should effect the morale as it would in real life but i'm not sure whether it does and whether anything else can effect their morale.
I also don't know how having high morale helps your men.
I think that winning battles in M&B should effect the morale as it would in real life but i'm not sure whether it does and whether anything else can effect their morale.
I also don't know how having high morale helps your men.
JohnathanStrange
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Well, I just stopped and fought and won three battles with a pre-battle morale of "average" and a post-battle morale of "average." I have seen in the past morale increase after winning but was that because of the victory or because my now smaller number of troops in the warparty average morale was now higher (even though the total morale was the same?) Or because my newly-rescued Vaegir Knights have a higher morale than my now-dead footmen? Who knows? Without knowing the morale formula, how can we say for sure?Matrix33 said:
It's a sort of pointless discussion though, morale (as I've noted) doesn't seem to matter much at all anyway.
So, if the "impression" or the "imagination" is that a party's irrelevant morale usually goes up after each win, something that if it mattered you'd know because you'd be trying to keep morale high - well, I guess impressions are just as good as actually checking to be sure.
I don't think just winning a battle should affect morale, having morale dependant also on how many of your soldiers died in the last fight. Winning a battle by the skin on your teeth and having only 6 guys left where there used to be 60 would indeed be quite demoralizing. Especially if you saw another group of marauders coming your way.
