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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
(12-05-2018, 04:36 PM)John1 Wrote: the Tring site... only works if the Brits arrive en masse from a single direction. Multiple units coming from a wider geography would ruin the choreography of the battle.

To be fair, we should mention that there are (at least) two different sitesĀ around Tring. My favoured site is over to the east at Newground, at the head of the Bulborne valley. Deryk's site is south-west of the town, in a far more constricted valley that could indeed address enemies coming from the north or east.

The whole point of Paulinus's choice of terrain, I thought, was to compel the enemy to attack him on a narrow front and from only one direction. The Newground site isĀ intended to confront an enemy advancing up the Bulborne from St Albans.

The Romans would only have to concern themselves with multiple attacks coming from different directions if they had failed to choose a battle site that took account of the position and movement of the enemy.

Your site at Church Stowe, while topographically dramatic, looks fatally easy to outflank. You have one army of Iceni advancing (or 'parading') for 80 miles from their homeland along the Nene valley - a journey of 8-10 days continuous travel. Another army approaches from the south, after 'parading' up Watling Street for 46 miles from St Albans (and there's no way you can escape the issue of wagons with this one, as they've just sacked London and St Albans, so they take 4-5 days too).

The army coming from the east, just by continuing along the low-lying Nene valley, can easily circle around behind the Roman position. Similarly, your Watling Street army can move west along the lateral valley towards Farthingstone and do the same.

   

The Romans are therefore trapped, surrounded by an army that outnumbers them considerably. They could try to break out of the encirclement - but that is not the battle described in our sources. The only way that this battle could happen is if the combined forces of Britons, after marching stolidly for over a week to get there, obligingly entered the Roman trap... would they really be that inept?


(12-05-2018, 04:36 PM)John1 Wrote: So with Tringalings now eschewing the Paradistas we have to knock Trings likelihood down a few notches.

I have no idea what you mean by that! [Image: sad.png]
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 - 12-05-2018, 10:37 PM

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