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Royal Scots Greys
Category:	Cavalry
Class:	Heavy Cavalry
Men:	15 / 30 / 45 / 60
Range:	80
Accuracy:	45
Reloading skill:	35
Ammunition:	10
Melee attack:	14
Charge bonus:	20
Defence:	15
Morale:	10
Unit limit:	1
Turns to train:	2
Recruitment cost:	710
Upkeep cost:	310

The Scots Greys are a heavy dragoon unit that can also be used as effective shock cavalry.

The men of the Greys are each armed with a flintlock carbine and the standard British heavy cavalry sword, a man-killing butcher’s blade of a sword when used from horseback in close combat. Like all Scotsmen, they are sure they are the best soldiers in the world and can fight like the Devil. This may be true, but more disciplined and less impetuous cavalry can beat them.

More properly called the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys were one of the oldest dragoon regiments in British service. The term “North Britain” was preferred in official circles to “Scotland” after the Act of Union between England and Scotland, and abortive Jacobite rebellions, but the name Scots Greys was used anyway. Distinguished by their all-grey mounts, the 2nd RNBD achieved immortality as part of the Union Brigade in Uxbridge’s magnificent and successful heavy cavalry charge against the French centre at Waterloo. Sergeant Charles Ewart of the 2nd RNBD captured an Eagle in the action, but the whole of the British heavy cavalry were not kept in-hand, and were “blown” for the rest of the battle. Lady Elizabeth Butler’s painting “Scotland Forever” depicts their charge in all its glory, and remains one of the finest examples of patriotic art ever created.

Abilities

Can dismount

Impetuous

Technological abilities

Wedge formation

Diamond formation

Available for:

Note

This unit is part of the Imperial Eagle Pack DLC. It was originally a pre-order incentive for Steam.

External links

• Royal Scots Greys at Wikipedia