<Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_DESCRIPTION"><Text>Gaulish unique Heavy Cavalry unit that replaces the Heavy Chariot. +7 [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength against anti-cavalry units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_NAME"><Text>Carrus</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_DESCRIPTION"><Text>Ethiopian unique Melee unit that replaces the Rifleman. +6 [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength against stronger units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_NAME"><Text>Mehal Sefari</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_DESCRIPTION"><Text>Byzantine unique Melee unit that replaces the Longswordsman. +5 [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength when fighting in or occupying a District.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_NAME"><Text>Varangian Guard</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_ABILITY_PLUS_X_VS_ANTI_CAVALRY_DESCRIPTION"><Text>+7 [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength against anti-cavalry units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_ABILITY_PLUS_X_DISTRICT_DESCRIPTION"><Text>+5 [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength when fighting in or occupying a District.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_ABILITY_PLUS_X_VERSUS_STRONGER_UNITS_DESCRIPTION"><Text>+6 [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength against stronger units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="PLUS_X_WHEN_ATTACKING_RANGED"><Text>[ICON_Strength] against Ranged units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="PLUS_X_VS_ANTI_CAVALRY"><Text>[ICON_Strength] Combat Strength against Anti-Cavalry units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="PLUS_X_DISTRICT_ATTACK"><Text>[ICON_Strength] Combat Strength when fighting in a District.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="PLUS_X_DISTRICT_DEFEND"><Text>[ICON_Strength] Combat Strength when occupying a District.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="PLUS_X_VERSUS_STRONGER_UNITS"><Text> [ICON_Strength] Combat Strength against stronger units.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_1"><Text>The Varangian Guard was an elite unit of the Byzantine Army from the tenth to the fourteenth century. The members served as personal bodyguards to the Byzantine Emperors. The Varangian Guard was known for being primarily composed of recruits from northern Europe, including Norsemen from Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxons from England. The recruitment of distant foreigners from outside Byzantium to serve as the emperor's personal guard was pursued as a deliberate policy, as they lacked local political loyalties and could be counted upon to suppress revolts by disloyal Byzantine factions.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_2"><Text>The Rus' provided the earliest members of the Varangian Guard. They were in Byzantine service from as early as 874. The Guard was first formally constituted under Emperor Basil II in 988, following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir, who had recently usurped power in Kiev with an army of Varangian warriors, sent 6,000 men to Basil as part of a military assistance agreement. Basil's distrust of the native Byzantine guardsmen, whose loyalties often shifted, with fatal consequences, as well as the proven loyalty of the Varangians, many of whom had previously served in Byzantium, led the Emperor to employ them as his personal guardsmen.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_3"><Text>Immigrants from Scandinavia (predominantly immigrants from Sweden, but also elements from Denmark and Norway) kept an almost entirely Norse cast to the organization until the late 11th century. According to the late Swedish historian Alf Henrikson in his book Svensk Historia (History of Sweden), the Norse Varangian guardsmen were recognized by long hair, a red ruby set in the left ear and ornamented dragons sewn on their chainmail shirts.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_4"><Text>In these years, Swedish men left to enlist in the Byzantine Varangian Guard in such numbers that a medieval Swedish law, Västgötalagen, from Västergötland declared no one could inherit while staying in "Greece" — the then Scandinavian term for the Byzantine Empire — to stop the emigration.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_BYZANTINE_VARANGIAN_GUARD_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_5"><Text>The Varangian Guard not only provided security for the Byzantine emperors, but also participated in many wars, often playing a decisive role, since they were usually deployed at critical moments of a battle. By the late 13th century, Varangians were mostly ethnically assimilated by the Byzantine Greeks, though the Guard remained in existence until at least mid-14th century. In 1400, there were still some people identifying themselves as "Varangians" in Constantinople.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_1"><Text>The Mehal Sefari was an elite unit of Imperial guardsmen who protected the emperors of Ethiopia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally serving as the personal bodyguards for the emperors of Ethiopia, the Mehal Sefari grew to become a formidable brigade of the Ethiopian military. Consisting of specialized units of infantry, cavalry, artillery and marksmen, the Mehal Sefari's status as the elite force of Ethiopia was ensured by the rigorous training and modern equipment provided to them.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_2"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_3"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_4"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_ETHIOPIAN_MEHAL_SEFARI_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_5"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_1"><Text>Beginning around the 3rd century BC, Celts of the regions around the Marne and the Moselle Rivers began burying their chieftains in light, two-wheeled chariots with their sword, shield, spears, and drinking vessels. Similar chariot graves from this era are also found in the British coastal regions of Yorkshire. The evidence for the use of these vehicles is clear. A Roman coin from 110 BC dramatically depicts the naked Gallic warrior-king Bituitus of the Averni casting spears from his chariot. And documentary evidence of the chariot in combat on the European continent is left to us by the Roman poet Propertius. In describing the fighting between the forces of Republican Rome and 30,000 howling Celtic warriors in 222 BC, Propertius depicts the chieftain Viridomar “clothed in striped trousers” hurling javelins from his chariot with deadly accuracy. In fact, many of the Latin words for chariot—carpentium, carrus, essendum—have Gaulish roots.</Text></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_2"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_3"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_4"><Text/></Replace> <Replace Language="en_US" Tag="LOC_PEDIA_UNITS_PAGE_UNIT_GAUL_CARRUS_CHAPTER_HISTORY_PARA_5"><Text/></Replace>