Quote Originally Posted by Ludens
Well, I guess they are spearmen since they get a bonus against cavalry, but the units shows up on the battlefield with swords. However, the unit flag at the bottom of the screen and the image in the description both carry spears.


A few other custom battle issues discovered while making this screenshot:
  • Caledonian Rhyfelwyr and Doryphoroi Pontikoi appear double in the custom battle unit lists of the factions they are available too.
  • The Sweboz have a unit with the odd name Germanic_ infantry_feralharjoz and without description.
  • Sweboz Merjoz and Godelic Hammerinfantry still feature the vanilla standardbearers.

Sorry for being not very thorough, but I am playing the game on and off right now, so my observations are rather randomly made.
I believe that they could make a shieldwall or something if they had defence on? then if you attack they would draw spears and later switch back to swords or something like that. I can't remember correctly.