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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
I don't know I leave you guys alone for a few days and it all kicks off......play nice chaps, it's only a game.

1 The Wash, I'm still convinced this is an underplayed impediment to the Iceni manoeuvres. The higher sea level only compounds the issue of impassability. Holme Post demonstrates how quickly and dramatically these levels can change;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holme,_Cambridgeshire
The Wash population probably jumped significantly in late 61AD with Paulinus' reprisals, but this population was probably sedentary and reliant on water transport, hence I still contend that any advancing horde would probably have passed to the South of the area.

2 My bias, I'm completely open about this, Steve's work is a fantastic think piece and for Church Stowe (CS) to land at 47 out of 2700 candidates puts it in the top 2% so I see that as a distinct validation of the hypothysis that CS might be a good candidate site. My focus on CS is just a method to test the necessarliy subjective assumptions of Steves paper. This paper makes me think differently at a strategic level and the process of site justification is throwing up new observations which I think are of value. They help me test/build my case hopefully they will help the same process for other sites.

3 Distance from known position of the protagonists. This seems a factor so obvious it should be probably the key determinant of the filtering process. Any site near the known Roman route and the known Iceni postions should be weighted so massively positively to make any candidate outside this zone a rank outsider. Steves candidate list has popped up with lead candidates so far West and South that in my book they are just not credible, so I am mentally striking them out. How one accounts for this in terms of weighting I'm not sure but it seems such an obvious factor. So many of the candidates demand an unfeasibly long march in by the Iceni and such a long retreat form the enemy by Paulinus that surely they would have warrented mention in the texts, or the late arrival of Legio II.

4 Sausages, 3 diagrams illustrating the point,

4a Roman route on Watling Street and MAYBE West of London with a zone of deviation;

[attachment=11942]sausagesroman.jpg[/attachment]

4b Iceni routes out of East Anglia, northern option to attack Roman route march, Southern, Thames Valley route because that is the only way to justify distant sites;

[attachment=11943]sausagesbrit.jpg[/attachment]

4c Sausage on Sausage, the intersections should be the best candidate sites, yes the northern route seems to land on Church Stowe and the bifurcation happens to negate Dunstable, funny that, bring it on Ross you don't scare me.....

[attachment=11944]sausagescomposite.jpg[/attachment]

and here is a clear warning that an undue obsession with the West will do you no good;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5adzgP8vtE
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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
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