- For other uses, see Swordsman (disambiguation).
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[]
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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.
| Troops of the Swedes | ||
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| Village Recruits |  Town Militiaman
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| Garrison Militia | Swedish Militia Pikeman (veteran)
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 Militia Musketeer (veteran)
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| Regular Infantry | Town Militiaman Swedish Pikeman (veteran) Musketeer (veteran)
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| Guard Infantry | Swordsman (veteran) Lifeguard (veteran)
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| Regular Cavalry |  Swedish Dragoon (veteran)
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| Heavy Cavalry | Cuirassier (veteran) Cuirassier Spearman (veteran)
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| Personal Guard Cavalry | Swedish Reiter (veteran)
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| Camp Mercenaries (between Siegevold and Weissenstein) |
European Mercenary Infantryman (recruit) • (experienced) • (veteran) • (elite) European Mercenary Rifleman (recruit) • (experienced) • (veteran) • (elite) European Mercenary Cavalryman (recruit) • (experienced) • (veteran) • (elite)
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| Regional Mercenaries (Koenigsberg • Riga) |
Finnish Harquebusier (veteran)
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| Regional Mercenaries (Narva • Allenstein Castle) |
German Pikeman (veteran) Reiter (veteran)
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| National Mercenaries | Scottish Swordsman (veteran) Scottish Pikeman (veteran) Scottish Musketeer (veteran)
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