Thank you for the feedback.
Little post-battle cheer, if vikings win, would be nice touch indeed and I do like the idea of making viking deaths more impactful, both good ideas.
I was considering Warcraft 1 like skeletons at some point that slowly break down and fade away, but due to lack of my design ability and very limited space on the grid it got way too messy for players to easily make out what was going on.