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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Quote:Renatus stated:

I am not sure where we are. This looks like a different site from that previously discussed. A North point might help.

...This site is very large and the previous battle area that we discussed is on the south western side of the plateau... this battle site is on the north eastern side of the plateau facing Tring and Akeman Street....

It seems you've gone back to the location you originally suggested in this post. A good thing - it's a lot more credible as a site, I think.

From what I can see on your very small images, you're placing your Roman line wnw-ese across the valley between Coombe Hill and the long ridge of Hastoe Hill, centred more or less on Hanghill. The 'open plain' and the Britons would be over towards modern Tring. Here's the OS, taken from one of your earlier posts, Deryk:

[attachment=7913]tringmap.jpg[/attachment]

I'm not actually sure what you mean by the two valleys and the two access points - I looks like quite a straighforward enclosed defile with woods behind. Are you overcomplicating your battle plan? If so, why?

Two problems I can see with this. Firstly, it's possibly too enclosed. A cavalry or light force placed up on the hill to the west ('Buckland Hoo') would be okay, but the long ridge of Hastoe Hill to the east, covered by Pavis, Grove and Stubbings Wood, is too steep to allow troops to charge down it into the valley or the plain. In effect, any troops placed on the heights up here would be out of the battle. They would be okay as a blocking force, preventing the position from being outflanked from the east perhaps, but unless they made a side sweep north-east through Tring Park and around, they'd be tactically useless.

Second problem - where's the camp? In your previous version of this plan (see above) you put a camp in the valley somewhere. The more recent version has various camps up on the hills. But I don't see a lot of level ground - it's all slopes and steeps until you get the hill crests, where water would be a problem. Also the issue of being besieged up there... I'd say your Roman force would need an easier fallback route to their camping ground.

But it's an interesting site nevertheless...


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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 Nathan Ross - 09-05-2013, 09:47 AM
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
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