^Why thank you. The Pict campaign ended ignominiously - around 945 AD, I was in debt about 35k IIRC, one province, barely any military left and the game hit some kind of bug that would lock up the game totally, each time I tried to play through the turn :/
Bummer -- both regarding your Pictish kingdom's abrupt collapse, and that some dumb technical glitch prevented you from doing anything to recover from it (or at least go out in a blaze of glory

).
Oh well. I'm surprised I enjoyed this old game as much as I did too. Very much looking forward to a larger campaign of XL, starting in the late period...around 1320AD (I think?)...maybe as Kiev 
Ha, that would be awesome. I can't really offer much in the way of advice for a Kiev campaign, though, other than perhaps try and take out the Cumans ASAP.
And without actually googling it (or firing up the game), yes, 1320 does sound about right for when the Late period starts, give or take. I can only ever remember that the High period begins in 1205 for some reason.