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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Quote:I would be interested in the number of men and the breakdown of the Roman Army. My only other remarks concern the sheer volume that the Brythons would occupy (perhaps 50,000 for the baggage train and 180,000 for the warriors or are you going with different figures?)

The double rectangular blocks on my plan each represent a cohort formed eight deep - they're measured as 180ft wide to scale. There are ten cohorts of the Fourteenth and two of the Twentieth (the latter repesenting a 1000-man vexillation). Then four more quingenary cohorts of auxiliary infantry and four alae of cavalry or equites cohortales. I think the layout I've shown fits the numbers, although the formation could have been tighter.

As for the Britons - around 57,000 warriors, on the 4/1 estimate derived from Caesar (inexact, but what else do we have?). I'm going on the idea that untrained men will bunch much closer together for mutual protection than disciplined infantry - observe a football mob, or street rioters - and therefore occupy less ground man for man. They may spread out at times, but will swarm rather than hold a formation. Hard, therefore, to estimate how much ground a tight-packed moving mass of nearly 60,000 would occupy - any clues?


Quote:Regarding Mike Bishop's teaser about the Dorking Gap

(ahum!) ;-) - although others have mentioned it before, just not here...


Quote:Only problem is that it has a river in it

True, but the river's on the flank rather than across the field. It might work, if the Roman line was well south, at the upper end of the Denbies estate. This would give a battlefield of approx 1km square, with the northern end hemmed in by hill slopes and the curve of the river.


Quote:auxilliaries in the forts near Leith Hill

Which are they? :dizzy:
Nathan Ross
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Re: Calling all armchair generals! - by Ensifer - 03-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-18-2012, 06:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 12:02 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 02:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 05:40 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 11:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 05:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 09:42 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 10:10 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:25 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 08:36 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-27-2012, 01:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 02:24 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-07-2014, 02:18 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-08-2014, 01:50 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-11-2014, 02:03 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-18-2014, 07:54 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-20-2014, 02:37 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-25-2014, 08:29 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 11-10-2012, 02:23 AM

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