The armies used in my 'Blood Eagle' campaign are based an the DBA lists, with a period- specific modifications of my own.

MERCIA & WESSEX Early Saxon (75).

I prefer that Warband interpretation of the English Fyrd to that of 'Spears' used in the Angla-Danish list. I gave Wessex two 'Blades' elements marked as the personal hearth-troops of Aethalred (not, incidentally, that Aethelred commonly recalled as 'The Unready') and Alfred, his adolescent brother later known as 'the Great'.

GWYNNEDD Welsh (92).

The early northern variant sans longbows.

ALBAN Pre-Feudal Scots (111).

I replaced the three "Blades' units with extra Spears as I suspect that the Scots thegnhood etc - the well-armed blokes with swords and mail was more likely to serve as front ranks for the notoriously under-equipped spearmen of the old Pictish lowlands. This option allows for lots of impressive, 2-element deep shiltrons, which flatten my opponents.

RAGNARSSOMS Vikings (106)

With three Blade units, marked respectively "Ivarr", "Ubbe" and "Halfdan", for the sons of Ragnar Hairy- Breaches himself.

DUBLINS Norse-Irish (112)

With a heavier emphasis on Ostman and other Vikings than the list "as is". At this point, the Kingdom of Dublin was primarily Norwegian with Irish auxiliaries.

THS ISLES

Basically an early version of list 128, Scots Isles & Highlands, with Viking heavies backed with Picts and Scots to make up the numbers.

STRATHCLYDE

Sub-Room Briton (82) without the Arthurian Knights.

As owner of, er, lots of Dark Age figures, I have revised the DBA organisation to create a better visual effect. I use 15mm figures on 25mm sized bases (more or less) with 25mm movement rates. The close order infantry elements comprise 10-12 figures in two ranks, while auxilia have 8, cavalry 6. and light horse or Psiloi, 4 each. This works well without changing any rules. I assume that a figure equals around 50 men, meaning that whole mass adds up to 5-7000 apiece, which would be the absolute top and of early medieval armies in Britain -- leaving aside, of course. the possibility that these armies only had a few hundred men at most, a theory that gained currency in the 1970s and 80s.