Quote Originally Posted by Caravel
I didn't say they were fantasy units, i said they were obscure, that is uncommon and quite unique, yet in M2TW there will doubtless be whole armies full of them, which isn't realistic.
What makes you think the French will field armies of nothing but Scots Guard, Caravel? CA has already stated that with the way "recruiting pools" work, you'll be able to recruit only a handful of elite troops (such as knights), with medium to lower-grade units available in greater numbers. The Scots Guard description indicates they're an elite unit, and thus their availability in recruiting pools will likely be very limited.

I, like you, am skeptical about a lot of aspects of Medieval 2. I think this is one case where you may be fretting unnecessarily, however. If (and I concede it's a fairly big "if") the recruiting pools work like CA says they will, about the only way one could have an entire army of nothing but Scots Guard (or other elite units) would be to horde them over a period of many turns and then combine them into a single stack--and by that point, you could've built an army that consists of 10 times as many regular troops.