Combat units replace creatures of the second level, so Gem can come with elves, just as Gurney can come with orcs.
By the way, for this reason, I have long suggested that specialists in machines, who came to the tavern in the first game, should come without a machine and be level 1 in the second game. Gem with 1 gnome, Jeremy with 1 Barack Obama, etc.

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