Thanks for the French longbow info, econ21.

Quote Originally Posted by econ21
I am not seeing why it's unrealistic. There are many examples in history of nationals of one country forming an elite unit in another, without either an alliance or a counterpart in their home country. Think of the Varangian guard or the Swiss guards in pre-revolutionary France (or the Vatican) or even the French foreign legion.
Well, what I was refering to was the way that recruiting units depletes a province's population. You can't make Scotts from Frenchmen (that is, recruit Scottish soldiers from a French city's population). I assume that Scottish immigrants were not a regular minority among the continental French population, so any Scottish troops in the French army should be mercenaries, the way I see it. Maybe I'm getting too technical with things. I know in RTW, Carthage could produce Iberian infantry anywhere, but that always kind of bothered me. I prefered RTR's more realistic recruitment system.

So it just seems to me that if the French faction can "produce" Scottish units, they should come from some other source than their own population. If they are only available as mercenaries, then that would be a good way to keep their numbers in check, which is a concern a couple others have expressed.