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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
Thanks for that, John - a very detailed scenario, and it's interesting to see the way your ideas have developed!


(12-01-2018, 01:28 PM)John1 Wrote: I do question... the timeline that is applied to the campaign

What is it you particularly question about the timeline? As I wrote somewhere up the thread, if we stick with Tacitus's summary of events then there is very little spare time for the two sides to move about - a month or two at best.


(12-01-2018, 01:28 PM)John1 Wrote: I don't see how the campaign would happen without distinct mustering points ... each candidate battlefield advocate should surely have this on the required "to define" list.

Although you only need 'mustering points' if you are moving the campaign up into the Midlands, and assuming that the Britons are roaming about in diverse groups over long distances.

Otherwise, Tacitus supplies all the points we need - first Colchester, then London, then St Albans, then the battle. None of them are that far from the others, and moving between one and next presents no great logistical difficult, I would say.


(12-01-2018, 01:28 PM)John1 Wrote: fast moving war bands out looting, self sustaining and highly motivated - it's how asymmetrical warfare has worked forever.

Certainly, although that is not what was going on in the campaign that our sources describe, which features large field battles, massed groups gathered in one place, and the destruction of cities.

If guerilla warfare was so effective, we might ask why the Britons didn't remain in their homeland after sacking various places and wait for the Romans to invade - that would be 'asymmetrical warfare'. Going out en masse in a great procession with wives and wagons to confront the enemy in their 'fortified position' certainly would not.


(12-01-2018, 01:28 PM)John1 Wrote: a reasoned base for the Romans, a reasoned base for the Iceni, a reasoned route for the combatants pre and post battle, I have yet to see this from other candidates.

I think most the various candidate sites put forward on this thread have suggested all of the above!
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
RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 12-01-2018, 07:59 PM

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