Quote Originally Posted by YellowMelon
Scotland is my favourite faction, though they can be easily beaten by a skirmish based army. They have cheap pikes that perform way better than their stats, very fast border horse, and mailed/feudal knights to combat the opponents strong cav. Also, they have highland noble archers that have reasonable melee stats as well as an axe secondary effective against armor, so when the battle is looking close you can send them in and it can save the day.
Yeh, pretty much what i would have said...but i have always had a soft spot for the scottish armies. In VI i would mostly always play with Scotland or the Picts.