- For other uses, see Musketeer (disambiguation).
Scottish Musketeers are national mercenary archers of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Polish Commonwealth.
Tactics[]
Armed with Wheelock Muskets of average-yet-decent firepower, they excel in firing lines - especially in tandem with their Eastern European counterparts - while their iconic Scottish Broadswords of above-average cutting and piercing power - as well as easily recognizable for their exquisitely decorated handguards - give them an unexpectedly fierce edge in melee combat. Protection-wise, however, Scottish Musketeers are weak to melee retaliation - especially from most types of cavalry - due to only wearing clothing in the form of unique plaid designated uniforms and berets.
Mostly fielded by the Swedes, Scottish Mercenaries as a whole are somewhat redundant on their side but much more useful when occasionaly fielded by the Poles, offering a good melee soldier, a good pikeman, and a strong musketman - compared to standard Polish troops, they hit harder in melee and generally have more hitpoints, although at the expense of some skill values.
Stats and Equipment[]
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Trivia[]
- Scotland became heavily embroiled in the Thirty Years' War in continental Europe for mainly religious reasons, sending soldiers to Germany, Denmark-Norway, and Sweden in an effort to aid its fellow Protestant nations - some Scottish soldiers, believing in the Catholic counter-reformation rather than Protestantism, also (independently) traveled to Catholic countries, which may explain why the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth sometimes fields Scottish troops in-game.
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Camp Mercenaries (between Siegevold and Weissenstein) |
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Regional Mercenaries (Koenigsberg • Riga) |
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Regional Mercenaries (Narva • Allenstein Castle) |
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