Quote Originally Posted by B_Ray
Thanks for the French longbow info, econ21.
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.
La gard Ecossaise isn't an mercenary unit, it's only the personnal bodyguard of the French King, la garde Ecossaise was created by Charles VII in 1445 to honor the Scots were came in France during the 100 years war to fignt against English and even Louis XI had more confidence on his Scot Guard than his family.
They are the elite of the elite who are trained and equiped by the Royal house of France.