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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
TRING BATTLE PART 3

1. Brythons attack up the first valley and are repulsed with a volley of javelins and then the Roman line (5 deep) charge the Brythons and the battle begins

2. Keeping to the defile and pivoting on the left hand side the Roman army extends its line in close order across the valley as it slowly advances up the right hand side of the valley.

3. The Brythonic advance has been halted and is being slowly beaten back in valley 1 so the Brythons launch a second attack up valley two in order to outflank the Roman army, believing it to be empty but in reality another division is waiting over the ridge on the plateau.

4. SP launches this Division onto the unsuspecting Brythons engaging them in a similar way to the First Division slowly beating the Brythons back down the second valley

5. There are now tens of thousands of Brythons in the two valleys fighting over an extended line of some 3000 meters with 7,500 Romans committed.

6. On the plateau there are a further 1000 Legionaries guarding the “access point 3” (but out of sight) with 1000 mounted Batavian Auxiliaries patrolling Grims Ditch “access point 4” with scorpions and bowman also along the defensive lines and 1000 cavalry supporting the Legionaries.

7. Boudica and her Leaders now launch another encircling attack move up the steep slopes at Wiggington only to be confronted by the Legionaries holding the line with scorpions and bowman.

8. By now both armies were engaged over a front that covered around 3 miles and the Brythons were either slowly retreating or being held by the three Roman Divisions.

9. The Brythons could extend their line again by attacking from the other side of Grims Ditch but this would thin out their line against Division 3 at Wiggington

10. It is my contention that once the Brythons were attacking Grims Ditch and were committed, that SP signalled the Legionaries at Wiggington to charge and by so doing release the 1000 cavalry down the hill, followed by the 1,000 mounted Batavians.

11. This charge takes the Brythons by surprise and the Romans are amongst the Wagons and Camps of the Brythons and atttacking the flank of the Brythons fighting Division 2 causing them to retreat and allowing Division 2 to charge and push the Brythons into the wagons.

12. This in turn causes problems for the Brythons fighting Division 1 and they also break allowing the Legion in Division 1 to follow up and slaughter the fleeing Brythons .

13. The Brythons flee as best they can on all fronts being slaughtered by the Romans and Tacitus reckons perhaps 80,000 to the point that the Romans just couldn’t kill any more.

This is a huge defeat for the Brythons, not complete annihilation by any means but it is the turning point of the war and the Brythons never combine in such numbers again in the South but continue to fight sporadically and stay under arms until a new Governor replaced Seutonius Paulinus.

There was of course massive depredation and also major famine because so many had been killed and could not plant the winter wheat.....

Kind Regards - Deryk
Deryk
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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 Deryk - 09-04-2013, 09:24 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

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