Royal Scots Greys are a type of Mounted Infantry in Napoleon: Total War, available to Great Britain with the Imperial Eagle Pack DLC, which was available for free with the standard boxed edition of the game. They could have also been obtained by pre-ordering Napoleon: Total War on Steam.
Description[]
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.
General Information[]
The Royal Scots Greys are some of the most formidable mounted infantry in Napoleon: Total War, with superb stats across the board. They are nearly unmatched as heavy cavalry in the British roster, and even have above average stats when dismounted and compared to other mounted infantry fighting on foot, although they are still far inferior to most dedicated infantry due to their still below-average accuracy and reloading, as well as their smaller regiment size.