Selgovae

The Selgovae was a Pictish tribe featured on Romecraft: Aetas Antonine. The tribe was infamous for its military prowess and unlike their more pacifist brethren, the Novantae, they managed to defeat the Hibernii tribe as the latter tried to raze the Selgovae capital. 
== History ==
=== Background ===
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=== Claywood Ambush ===
The Selgovae tribe, annoyed by the Romans' arrogance, planned an attack upon the invading forces. A trio of Pictish warriors were instructed to fire arrows at the Roman castrum until the legion would mobilize and follow them in pursuit. The legion did not mobilize until the ambush had been underway for well over an hour, however, when the forces was ready they were ordered to track down their adversaries and kill them. However, the Selgovae had expected their adversaries to follow the archers and before the Romans could react, the Pictish tribes poured out of the forest, slaughtering the entire Roman force and claiming the signum as their own. This defeat, perhaps the biggest military defeat inflicted upon the Roman legion by the Selgovae tribe, prompted the Romans to mobilise a greater force than they has ever deployed against the Selgovae.
=== Salt the Earth and the Roman Retreat ===
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== Trivia ==
* The tribe eventually achieved its goal of driving the Romans back from the area but only after numerous villages and settlements to were ravaged by Praefectus Castorum.
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