11-22-2015, 11:53 PM
Nathan Ross wrote:
The more I think about this, the more it seems that the three objectives you're discussing here - meeting up with western reinforcements, falling back on friendly natives and taking the refugees to safety - would be better served by pulling back west from London (again!). There's also this tricky business of the 'hostile population' in the Midlands to worry about...
Apart from Virginia Water there are no realistic sites going west until the Kennet Valley and then there are a number of possible sites as we have discussed earlier.
Would the tribes have followed this far and leave their own lands unprotected? Possibly not.
Also the majority of troops were in "Wales" (Part of Second Legion) and on the Welsh borders (20th Legion) and Brigantian borders (Part of 9th Legion) which are closer to the Akeman Street route than the route to Silchester.
Deryk
The more I think about this, the more it seems that the three objectives you're discussing here - meeting up with western reinforcements, falling back on friendly natives and taking the refugees to safety - would be better served by pulling back west from London (again!). There's also this tricky business of the 'hostile population' in the Midlands to worry about...
Apart from Virginia Water there are no realistic sites going west until the Kennet Valley and then there are a number of possible sites as we have discussed earlier.
Would the tribes have followed this far and leave their own lands unprotected? Possibly not.
Also the majority of troops were in "Wales" (Part of Second Legion) and on the Welsh borders (20th Legion) and Brigantian borders (Part of 9th Legion) which are closer to the Akeman Street route than the route to Silchester.
Deryk
Deryk
