I'm still confused about morale tests

Great clarification, yessir.  "per target unit" is the key.

I'm going to be honest, I'm not 100% sure if the confusion comes from the way the rules are actually written, or from what feels most intuitive to players based on experience with other games. Either way, it makes me sad to see that there's still so much confusion, and I will keep making efforts to re-write things to make the rules clearer.

That being said, sometimes I think that maybe the easiest solution would've been to just change the morale rules entirely, say make it so that you take a morale test whenever you activate and are at half or less of your starting strength, and if you fail you are pinned or get some sort of penalty. Maybe this is a good idea for a future game...

To be honest I do not think there is much confusion of the rules. But I do think that it should be enough with one morale test on a unit per activation "At the end of an activation, each unit that took any damage and are at half models/tough or less must take a morale test".

Broken English aside I do think that it is fun to take lots of tests during an entire turn. It is one of the things I really like with Onepage. I think you should be forced to take morale tests even from dangerous terrain when at half models/tough:

Dave and Hunt are the last two soldiers left. But they struggle on as Dave has a big cannon with him and if they are lucky that big ass tank gonna get it. They are jumping carefully from stones to stones over the large lake.
"You know..." Hunt starts out, hoping to encourage his mate. "...although this lake is dangerous it is really nice to have you here as well."
But no answer comes. Hunt turns around. Dave is gone. Left is only his cap, floating in the water.
"Damn, I guess I need to go along by my self." He start to aim his next jump. He catches something at the perifiar...prefr...periffir... at the edge of his sight and he sees Dave's cap being swallowed by dino-mice with laser shooting out of their eyes, a cougar-shark with toxin-ears and that stupid dog with many heads from Harry Potter that small children can fool.
Then Dave's hat explodes from a self sacrificing ninja-clamp.
Hunt stares at his path, it is now filled with dine-mice.
"You know what? I think I'll go back now."

Yes, I want to have morale tests from dangerous terrain as if you have lost half your squad, loosing someone else can be a very deciding factor to fall back or leave the area.

"At the end of every activation, any units which took wounds during that activation and which are currently at half or less their original Tough value take a Morale test."

[and then the melee section has its caveat just as it does now]

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That sounds like a clever simplification, and it's similar in concept to how Bolt Action handles pin markers and activations. The devil's in the details, mind you. I wonder what the wider ramifications of such a rule change would be?

One issue would be the seizing of objectives. A unit which is currently holding an objective may be cut in half by gunfire. Under the present system they'd take an immediate morale check. If that morale check was failed - and they became pinned - then they'd lose control of the objective. In the new system the same massacred unit may elect to never activate again, never have to take a morale check, and never lose control of the objective. To resolve THIS problem, I think, you'd have to insist that all units must be activated in a round. Even a "hold" activation would then compel a morale test.

BS

I don't think the current rule needs a change. Just a bit of clarification that dangerous terrain tests, magic, and attacks, can each cause a roll, OR the smaller change of not handling magic separately from attacks. The latter makes sense to me, similarly to how very different weapons are put together during attacks. But it isn't important to me.

andy