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Mortem et Gloriam - The Battle of Dik's Mount, Later Picts vs Norse Irish and allies - Early Medieval bash

 Dik and I arranged a game at Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club , so I gave Dik the choice of what to use and fight (it can be fun) and he plumped for my Later Picts vs his Anglo-Irish Vikings. My Later Picts, or any of my Picts, don't see action as much as they should, having been superceeded by my Early Scots, so it was nice to build a list for them again and get over 1000 10mm figures on table! I would post a picture of the list, but it's too big for snipping tool to make a clear copy of! Basically, it's 9 TuGs of Tribal, flexible, 8 bases, 3 protected, 5 not (shudder) all Devastating Charge, nothing else. Great on teh charge, but berittle, especially one it takes losses. An 8 of Attacoti who are Tribal loose unprotected superior dev charge (yes, they basically count as superior dev charge, but then normal blokes in combat), a unit of formed loose protected, short spear, melee expert cavalry, and then 6 6s of unprotected aerage skirmishing archers and 2 6s of javelin a...