Hatred

[Chenier]

You have now declared Sint as evil incarnate, the enemies of everything that Imperskoe Viys'ko iz Fheuv'na stands for, and a realm of twisted, smelly people who deserve nothing but hate and brutal death.
Your peasants fall for you hook, line and sinker. Aside from a (short-term) morale boost in your armed forces, you also get a better grip on internal dissidents - as long as the war is going well.

What does this mean? Is there penalties if the war isn't going well? How does the game consider if the war is going well or not?

[Fleugs]

I think that if you lack battles with your "hatred enemy" or they beat you in battles, you might take hits in region statistics.

[Lorgan]

That'd be pretty cool if that's true.

[cjnodell]

Based on the game generated text it sounds like it should provide a bonus if you have enough battles/victories and no effect otherwise...

[Chenier]

Based on the game generated text it sounds like it should provide a bonus if you have enough battles/victories and no effect otherwise...

I did not notice this "short term morale boost to troops" it talks about, though. Morale of my units seemed just the same after I declared it.

[Telrunya]

Maybe it weakens moral penalties / gives a boost to gains for moral changes at the turn? Same for Control issues it talks about. Did you notice any immediate changes there? Perhaps it means the control issues at the daily region report as well.

[Chenier]

Maybe it weakens moral penalties / gives a boost to gains for moral changes at the turn? Same for Control issues it talks about. Did you notice any immediate changes there? Perhaps it means the control issues at the daily region report as well.

The full turn change hasn't happened yet, so I can't say for effect on regions. And morale did not seem to increase at TC.

[Bedwyr]

Here's something I've heard a lot, but never officially:

Does Hatred status have any effect on Friendly or Colony takeovers?  I've heard, variously, that if you've declared hatred you can't use them, that if someone has declared hatred against you that you can't use them, or both.

[Chenier]

Here's something I've heard a lot, but never officially:

Does Hatred status have any effect on Friendly or Colony takeovers?  I've heard, variously, that if you've declared hatred you can't use them, that if someone has declared hatred against you that you can't use them, or both.

I've heard that it lowers sympathy in your realm to the target hated realm. Since CTOs work like FTOs, using sympathy, this would indeed make it impossible for the hated realm to do in your lands after some time/instantly if this is indeed the case.