Quote Originally Posted by Martok
I agree. In fact, I remember reading that this was actually going to be implemented in the game at one point. A general would supposedly inflict a negative morale penalty against an enemy army, based on how high his dread rating was. Why this feature was never implemented, I don't know. It would've been pretty cool if it had, though.
You know Henry V won the battle of Agincourt among other things because, when at the end of the battle the French cavalry almost had reached the French prisoners taken, over a thousand by that time, he ordered to kill the prisoners to prevent that they joined the battle again, almost certainly leading to a defeat for the English. When the French cavalry saw that happening, they fled in terror.