Where to put your Saxons?

[Arturus Uriconium]

Yes, the Saxons do seem to be the late comers. This is what makes me think that if the first Germanic federates (or whatever) were used to protect Britannia from an external threat, it could well (ironically) have been the Saxons and possibly Franks - or even other Angles and Jutes - and there must have been a fair number of federates to have an uprising on the scale that's reported... if, indeed, the famouse gemitus Britannorum to Flavius Aëtius wasn't grossly exaggerated! Unless, as I've said before, the threat in Vortigern's mind was an Imperial one from Gaul, which, again ironically, could have been from Flavius Aëtius? If the perceived threat was from the Aurelianus family in Amorica, then they were in the wrong place. Although, I suppose, they could have patrolled further west.