Sweboz (Germans) slightly underpowered

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my current idea on the addition of a new MED-ish cavalry is an alternate skin for some horseman model (we have no space for new units) which will be a "proven" or "champion" rider or early "horse retainer" unit. This horse unit will represent the superiority of the higher class Germanic horsemen over the standard issue Leuce Epos and yet still be very similar to the Ridoharjoz. The regular Ridoharjoz should not be automatically superior, because the examples of Celtic defeat against German cavalry was not a representation of the Celts during their heyday and the Germans at that time suredly had experienced units on that front rather than conscripts more accurately portrayed by the normal Ridoharjoz.

I personally would like a wolf-skin/"werewolf" if you will/berserkr type unit based on common Indo European wolf-cults, shamanistic rituals, totemism. Of course there is no direct evidence of this being in use other than widespread records of Indo-Europeans worshipping the wolf and dressing like them, naming themselves after the wolf, and late Germanics following this practice, I should not have to go into the berserkr which is widely attested (Bǫðvar Bjarki! haha, how's that John) but other examples as such with the "boar" being a representation of a god's protection (Freyr! back to the original Germanic word for lord ) and subsequent decoration/invocation on helmets as mentioned in Beowulf, and many other accounts, and esp. found at Sutton Hoo. The "Seafarer" is an Old English poem with many shamanistic allusions including ecstatic trance and astral travel and if Christian monks are recording theses things which is against Christian teachings, then they must be based on a core practice maintained from those early times. I could scramble together more vague shamanistic/totem worship/shapeshifting references within Germanic and provide the examples I mentioned for Indo-European (such as the infamous Dacians' use).... BUT like I said there is nothing that we can dig up and say "ah hah!" so I won't waste my time at the moment. So, IMO it cannot be argued that it's pure fantasy to have a drugged out naked wolf/berserk type unit for the Germanics, but fiction and unproven enough that it should not be in EB.