Thanks for the info Gaius.

Man, that's quite depressing. Clearly Ulster swordsmen are a bona fide sword unit (surely the clue is in the word swordsmen). Ostmen and Gwent Raiders are as much swordsmen as say Spanish Swordsmen Militia.

Ah well, I'm going to take your advice and spam smithy buildings. I've just taken Nottingham and got offered the Swordsmiths' Guild there ok, so at least I've got one central weapon specialist.

At least I've learnt to respect Gwent Raiders. They're quite handy despite their lowly stats. They seem to be about as handy as Rhyfelwyr anyway. What they lack in attack power, they make up for in the fact they're not cumbersome two-handers.