Mysterious Unit.....

[sunsmountain]

That means the Germans either grew quite large, or were quite lucky in that particular city to have that particular bardic circle.

You see, germans are balanced mao, according to descr_strat.txt
In this thread:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=45212

you can read what that means.

mao
biased towards mass troops, light infantry

So its rare to see a German faction with:
A. a minor city
B. money to spare on a bardic circle
since most of it is spent on units. And night raiders dont qualify as mass troops or light infantry.

It gets even better: Gaul is a 'religious smith' in which religious means it will build temples to Abnoba and Teutatis, but not Esus/Epona. Pretty shitty if you're the Julii and you want to build your Pantheon (level 5 temple) to Epona, for which you need a level 3 Epona temple from the Gauls. Epona gives +5 experience to 'raw recruits', making them instant veterans.

Spain could help out, but is geared towards Esus, if Abnoba fails.

and dammit this reminds me of the night battles that should have already been in the game.

[pezhetairoi]

AHHHHH I love you to bits sunsmountain. I've been looking for that thread about faction characteristics for, like, forever.