The Gadrauht is a unique unit from the Fall of Rome scenario of Civilization V: Gods & Kings. Only the Gothic civilization can build it.
Game Info[]
Strong, front-line land Unit, which can only be built by the Goths. This Unit has a higher 
Combat Strength than the Swordsman, which it replaces. It moves along enemy roads as if they were friendly roads.
Strategy[]
The Gadrauht is the Gothic unique unit. It has a slightly higher Combat Strength than the Swordsman, which it replaces. Additionally it does not require any 
Iron resources. The Gadrauht may move along enemy roads as if they were friendly roads.
Civilopedia entry[]
The Gothic tribes had no standing army, instead relying on Gadrauhts, or short-term militia. Generally armed with thrusting spears, throwing spears and shields, although some had swords and bows, these unarmored levies were particularly effective in melee in rough terrain where the rigid military formations the Romans favored proved unwieldy. Commonly organized in hundafabs, literally "hundred armed men," along tribal lines, the Gadrauhts were unreliable in pitched battle, as likely to fight to the last man as to flee when the tide turned against them.