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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
@ Ren - A vividly incoherent picture. 

How about if 90% went homeward, 10% went raiding and burning. An 80/20 or 75/25 split would still work for me.

The homeboys secured their loot, gathered more friends and relatives, mustered in Thetford then headed up the Nene in the hopes of getting behind the Roman force. That will solve your navigational worries, all together and following a blue line on the ground. The 10% can harry Paulinus' column back to the Nene. Meeting the 90% at Hunsbury then heading off together on foot and horseback with 100 or so waggons carrying extra ammo they pitch up at Church Stowe. Thanks for the pointers....I think you cracked it.

"I can see no other sensible reading of this!"
try hmmm.....open boggy plain, no walls, lets find somewhere better whatever happens to be over the hill in Essex, or maybe Suffolk, but most likely Norfolk by now......if we're quick we can get up north so they can't get between us and our new garrisons and territory up to Mona.

"He wants to strike at them, but instead waits around and then they strike at him?"
He wants them to strike at him on his chosen/prepared ground but if they don't he wants an option to go to their manor and sort them out.

 "I think you're letting your imagination run away with itself!"
Better than letting someone elses sketchy latin history dictate to me...... you wouldn't want a commander with the imagination to think up a counter attack position, or pose a threat to the enemy territory would you..... nooo that would be asking for trouble all that thinking ahead nonsense takes your eye off the ball.

"Even longer if they all went home first, of course..."
Not a significant impact if you go no further south than Colchester and nip straight over to Watling Street along the Nene.

"Not sure if I understand what you're saying here. Of course, if Paulinus is blocking or threatening the route of their march, they don't have much choice about it..."
that's ok I'm finding most of my posts are coming back with some less than accurate interpretations plastered onto them. What was their destination if he blocked them (or at least loitered in the vicinity of them) at Tring?

"We can pay half a cow"
Half a Cow, I get bitched at for a packed lunch and you're offering up half a cow !!!!!!! Some double standards there Mr Ross.....is it a big cow?
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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
RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by John1 - 01-10-2016, 08:58 PM

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