Ouch, I'm playing as Russia right now and they have no units that give points for a swordsmith's guild. Turkey seems to have it bad, too, with Hashishims the only unit they have that gives points. It also took me forever to get any with Venice, as I found the Venetian heavy infantry way better than the dismounted feudal knights and only built the knights when I was facing the Mongols and didn't have enough Venetian heavy in queue.

Guess I will now start to use an inland province to make my priests and spies and will put quite a few on a certain province. I'd like my coastal cities to have merchant's.