Scottish Swordsman

For other uses, see Swordsman (disambiguation).

Scottish Swordsman
Troop Information
Culture	Mercenaries
Wages	10-18 thalers/week
Acquired from...	Mercenary Commander
Upgrades to...	Scottish Swordsman (veteran)
Upgrade Cost	? thalers
XP for Kill	? experience
Ransom Value	? thalers

Scottish Swordsmen are national mercenary infantry of the Kingdom of Sweden and the Polish Commonwealth.

Tactics

They wear a breastplate and wield a giant sword with enough Power Strike to make it hurt, which makes them hands down the best Scottish troops and best used at defending fortresses. Skills-wise identical to Swedish Swordsmen but with higher Power Strike yet less armored, using either or both comes down to player choice.

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

Note: Troops have a set of default stats; at the beginning of a new game, these stats are randomly adjusted for each type of troop. The following is the default set for this troop as seen within the game code and may not reflect the specific stats you will see during actual gameplay. For more information, see troop stats.

Scottish Swordsman - Default Stats and Equipment

Attributes Stat Points Level 13 Strength ? Agility ? Intelligence ? Charisma ? Health 60 Armor Head ? Body Scottish Uniform Hand None Foot ? Skills Skill Points Ironflesh 3 Power Strike 3 Grenade Throwing 0 Power Draw ? Weapon Master 5 Shield ? Athletics ? Riding 1 Shooting from Horseback 0 Looting ? Trainer ? Tracking ? Tactics ? Path-finding ? Spotting ? Inventory Management ? Wound Treatment ? Surgery ? First Aid ? Engineer ? Persuasion ? Prisoner Management ? Leadership ? Trade ? Proficiencies Weapon Type Points One Handed Weapons 140 Two Handed Weapons 140 Polearms 140 Archery 0 Firearms 0 Throwing 0 Weapons Melee ? Ranged None Shield None Mount None

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.