(OT) Do you prefer to know game formulas?

[Chazar]

The hidden mechanics of the morale system is fine to me, since it is suffciently complicated to make it impractical to be learned from repeated experiments:

I think that the question should rather be what is a desireable factor for "successful" play: It seems proper to me that an experienced player has an advantage, but I do not like it if this "experience" can be obtained by simply assiduous experiments, e.g. I do not like the "wish" spell: "Wish" is certainly funny for SP, but would anyone use it blindly in MP? Certainly not! But acquiring the knowledge how "wish" functions requires no genuine insights, but just a large enough amount of time for solo play against a weak AI (or map modding expertise).

On the other hand, learning the morale system also needs time, but it still requires some thought, for the number of possible battle setups (troop compositions, placements & scriptings) is just too numerous. Thus there is no obvious way of experimenting. The only way to learn more about it is to gain some intuition by conducting a great variety of battles.

So I would want that all simple things are made easily available to save me the hassle to conduct boring experiments instead of playing the game. I do not want to tediously study the game before being able to play in MP! Or in more aggressive words: Anything that can easily learned from playing against a simple AI should also be easily accessible right from the start!