Hirdman

The Hirdman was a Norse infantry unit in the Alpha and Beta versions of Age of Mythology.

Information
The Hirdman was the original Norse Heavy Infantry before being replaced by the Huskarl. It functioned as a statistically better Hypaspist.

A detailed look at the unit's history is available here.

Accessing
The Hirdman is only accessible in Age of Mythology: Improvement Mod where it appears as the Norse Heavy Infantry good vs. Infantry, it is an extremely effective unit in this role, even being a decent unit beyond it's intended role.

History
Due to be deleted before the creation of history files, the following is based on the Wikipedia article "Hird" it how ever has been condensed to be more accurate to Age of Mythology's history txt files.

"Hirdmen were the nucleus of personal companion bodyguards, they were essentially Elite Huskarls, and being mentioned many times in Norse Sagas, and law codices by the reign of Hakron IV, they became more of a Men-At-Arms, more or less a Formal version of what they once were"

Trivia

 * The texture map for the Hirdman, is located in the Multiplayer Alpha textures.bar file, under "Infantry N Hirdman Map".