Claywood Ambush

The Claywood ambush was a major military defeat inflicted upon the Roman legion by the Selgovae tribe. A trio of pictish warriors had been firing arrows at the roman castrum for an hour before the legion finally mobilised in force and decided to track them down and kill them. 
However they were falling into a trap. The trio retreated across the great bridge that marked Roman and Selgovae territory apart and the roman cohort followed them deep into the wood near a large clay deposit often fought over. The Selgovae poured out of the forest on either side, slaughtering the entire Roman force and even claiming the signum. This defeat prompted the Romans to mobilise a greater force than they'd ever deployed before against the Selgovae. 
This retaliation would be known as the Salt_the_earth campaign 
---OOC---
This was a PvP battle that has a lot of controversy surrounding it as the picts used teamspeak to co ordinate their ambush on the Romans. The Roman players complained that the ability to communicate in real time and without real RP gave the picts a distinct advantage over the Romans who had to type orders to one another. It ended with regulations being added about using TS in PvP.