This happened when I declared war and attacked a Broken Lord city that had just been founded on the current turn and had no garrison defending it. The "Unknown Unit" should be a Preacher, and should not be level 9.



On a tangential note, I've noticed that the AIs seem to make a considerable effort to attack Cultists' converted villages in neutral territory while at cold war; it feels much more hostile than my cold war interactions when playing as other factions. (And then I counter-attack and destroy the army that just destroyed one of my villages, and they get angry at me for "cold war aggression", even though they struck first and caused more harm.)

I had the same problem with "UNKNOWN" units in one of my games.



That game dies a few turns later when the "summer/winter" indicator went to -1/-1. Didn't save the dump unfortunately.

This has happened to me twice. What is happening (I think) is that there is a bug that generates units in a cultist village too early/at the wrong time. This unit then will have the "unknown" portrait during battle.



Developers: Both times that it happened to me it was soon after a multiplayer resync (might just be loading a save causes it). Can either of you above tell me if it was multiplayer or single player and if you reloaded at some point?

My game is single-player. I'm not sure if I reloaded. The unit in my screenshot was not generated by a village, though--it's a Preacher (a Cultist faction unit, not a minor faction unit). It was probably garrisoned inside a converted village at some point, though.

Hello there,

By any chance do you still have the save where the bug occurs?

I will try to reproduce the bug according to the details here but a save could help us a lot.

Thanks!



[Edit] We might have found the reason of the issue. When you updated a unit design you formerly created and one of the first design unit was in a village converted it was not updated correctly. Which could explain the unknown unit design.

We will test the fix and we can hope to deliver it to you in a short notice.

Single player for me too.



By the way, the unknown unit wasn't in my army, but in an enemy village army.

I am still seeing the bug occasionally, but I am having trouble reproducing it. If I see the "unknown" unit type in a the battle screen then I save the game, reload, and try another battle, but the "unknown" portrait is now gone. In all cases for me, though, it is with spawned units from my minor factions and never have I updated any designs of the said unit (although maybe another player did?).