Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

The standard Roman response when attacked was to get behind a secure wall.

That would be the standard response when defeated. Paulinus had yet to be attacked.

the Thames offered a line that could be easily secured by a very small number of troops.

There were multiple fords of the Thames in the vicinity of London, from Cliffe in Kent up to Lambeth and Brentford, and all were well known to the Britons. Holding the river as a defensive line would have required a large army broken up into many small detachments.

no sane General abandons their supply line

Indeed he does not. And as many of us have said, Paulinus's supply lines led north and west, towards his legion fortresses at Usk and Exeter, his campaign base at Wroxeter and the rest of his army in north Wales.

That secure base is the SE of England.

There were no Roman fortresses in south east England. There were very few troops either. Unless Paulinus was intending to evacuate his army and flee to Gaul the only effect of going that way would be to surrender the province to the enemy and lose all contact with his main army and supplies.

he is in a perfect sandwich between the Welsh Iceni and Belgae... IT IS TOTAL MADNESS!

The Welsh who?

And weren't the Belgae Roman allies a minute ago?

any sane general knows that Boudica will almost be expecting that and almost certainly be waiting in Ambush. That is totally dumb!!!

But the sane general also has scouts to determine the position and movements of the enemy, who he knows are moving slower than he is, and who he also knows cannot leap fifty miles across country to fall unexpectedly upon his line of march!