17th Century mod for Empire Total War including new models, textures, rulers and historical events.
Highland archers (Scotland)
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In next release.
How strong will they be? Against for eksample a line infantry unit?
About as good as any other bow unit against line infantry
A little early for kilts, as they didn't start using them for another 40 years or more.
My source are images from the civil wars. However Wikipedia says they originated in the 16th century.
They are an ENGLESH invention from the 17th century (the funny thing is that englesh people never used thed exept for the army), before that, scotts used some type of tartan towels arround their legs. The problem is that a lot of people also call them "kilts" (i'm not saying they are wrong) and then you see a modern kilt in films such bravehard (terrible historical accurad film, but nice movie ;) ). But as I see the image, they look more or less as they should, like a towel arround legs.
Theres some evidence of tartan-like patterns among the Celts of Gaul and Scotland (Caledonia) in ancient sources.
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Hi!In the XVII century, more units were armed with bows, but the Empire is doing very poorly with support for fighting troops armed with bows and adjustment to the effectiveness of armor soldiers.
With bows were shot while trying to escape, and other maneuvers on horseback.
I hope that you will deal with it, good luck!
(sorry, google translator)