Ach the Scots!

**Sheogorath** · 11-12-2006, 19:26

Anybody else here love the Scots? For some reason theyre the only faction Ive been able to really get into, I play others but they just dont seem as much fun. Maybe its the awsome spectacle of a thosand hairy guys in skirts waving axes and hacking that damned spear militia into tiny, tiny pieces.
Ive hated those guys ever since I tried Venice and found that everybody was capable of building better spear-militia-types than me.
I just wish that the guys with claymores didnt come so late, I was looking forward to recreating epic Braveheart levels of killing on the English prior to my kicking them off the islands.

Oh, and is it just me, or is the AI a little cheaty? During my war with England, I was about to take London (which had a single unit of some kind in it) and the Pope informs me that I have ten turns of peace now, and that if I attack I'll get excommunicated.
Well, after I hit the end turn button on the 10th turn, I get attacked by England.
The Pope then sends me a message saying that hes glad we didnt fight and that he hopes 'this new peace' will last.
Anyway, I Highland Charged' those English bastards off my islands. Im looking at Caen now, but I cant seem to build up a large enough navy to avoid getting chased off/sunk by pirates, who seem to be increadibly strong.

**Dave1984** · 11-12-2006, 19:27

Ah, by Scots I presume you mean the Braveheart-themed Garden Gnomes.

**alpaca** · 11-12-2006, 19:38

Originally Posted by D Wilson

Ah, by Scots I presume you mean the Braveheart-themed Garden Gnomes.

Ach, dinnae gimme any o' that blethers, mudlin that ye are. Scotch kings will rule t'lands!

**Sheogorath** · 11-12-2006, 19:39

Originally Posted by D Wilson

Ah, by Scots I presume you mean the Braveheart-themed Garden Gnomes.

Not really gnomes...they appear to be about twice the mass of most other soldiers :P

**Somebody Else** · 11-12-2006, 20:52

But they smell... I should know, I've been wearing tartan today - and that doesnnae like the rain...

**econ21** · 11-12-2006, 21:11

A little off-topic, but one small thing that impressed me about M2TW was the battlefield terrain for some battles in Scotland - it is kind of windswept, grassland, IIRC with heather. It's quite evocative and beautiful.

**Shaun** · 11-12-2006, 23:23

Why is the highland rabble unit WORSE than every other unit? Historically the scots were the last tribal fighters in Europe and the different 'clans' would often fight each other, so the basic scottish peasant, the highland rabble unit, should be better than the other peasants who just farmed all day.