Its all propaganda, be it for the the 'good guys' or the 'bad guys'. Us Canadians have long held that the Germans were terrified of us in WW1, each unit or regiment feeling that they were the ones who inspired this fear. The US has the same story. Of course an army or a regiment is going to invent stories that the enemy is afraid of them, and of course the enemy is going to deny it. Thats what bugged me the most about the article... "there was nothing in the German war archives to support the suggestion that Kaiser Wilhelm II's soldiers feared the Scots more than the other Allied troops" they were an army for Pete's sake, of course they're not going to go on record and say they're afraid of anyone.

No offense to the Scottish Regiments, or any other regiment, intended here.

And like Andrew Green said... I'd be afaid just to be there, nevermind who was attacking me.