i - it can never be truly impenetrable, so I would assume this was as close to impenetrable as it could be. the point was to have no meaningful route through and Beech/Oak woods are the opposite of this.
ii - ranging all over the map searching for the perfect location. that's more like it an entirely unreasonable and offensive statement on the thread, good to have you back. It was a known position, it was already recce'd next to the road and it's garrison alerted as it had been prepared in part as a central depot in the preceding years. No ranging required, no map required just "see you at the depot near Weedon, just south of the Watford Gap". You are assuming a tabular rasa of a campaign ground, the Romans had 17 years since the CS depot was set up and garrisoned when;
"the Roman 'line of advance' in the Claudian period appears to have stopped at the Nene for a few years (perhaps 1-2?) and then moved ever north and westward." _ a bloke at the pub.
iii - "Silva" would do it for me. Ever been trapped in that stuff..... it's a shocker.
iv - "all of us are to some extent creatively interpreting" - that's the strength of this method, CS gets a strong plus but the same issue applied to Tring gives that site a minus. Find some points that Tring outguns CS on, I haven't found any yet but then again I'm not looking.
v - Railway saddle, that's on clay. I assume the forest speculation is based on pollen but it would be hard to define the character and density of the wood in a particular year from that data.
vi - dense coppice is easy to move through.
vii - your facing the XIV with Pila and Scorpios, is hawthorn such a challenge from your armchair?
viii _ I think if you are occupying high ground on chalk your should apply a loose version of the Kaye test, is there a credible source of water? there is at CS with the ironstone spring line.
thanks for sharing your thoughts though, sharing's good; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcblRaWJPDM
ii - ranging all over the map searching for the perfect location. that's more like it an entirely unreasonable and offensive statement on the thread, good to have you back. It was a known position, it was already recce'd next to the road and it's garrison alerted as it had been prepared in part as a central depot in the preceding years. No ranging required, no map required just "see you at the depot near Weedon, just south of the Watford Gap". You are assuming a tabular rasa of a campaign ground, the Romans had 17 years since the CS depot was set up and garrisoned when;
"the Roman 'line of advance' in the Claudian period appears to have stopped at the Nene for a few years (perhaps 1-2?) and then moved ever north and westward." _ a bloke at the pub.
iii - "Silva" would do it for me. Ever been trapped in that stuff..... it's a shocker.
iv - "all of us are to some extent creatively interpreting" - that's the strength of this method, CS gets a strong plus but the same issue applied to Tring gives that site a minus. Find some points that Tring outguns CS on, I haven't found any yet but then again I'm not looking.
v - Railway saddle, that's on clay. I assume the forest speculation is based on pollen but it would be hard to define the character and density of the wood in a particular year from that data.
vi - dense coppice is easy to move through.
vii - your facing the XIV with Pila and Scorpios, is hawthorn such a challenge from your armchair?
viii _ I think if you are occupying high ground on chalk your should apply a loose version of the Kaye test, is there a credible source of water? there is at CS with the ironstone spring line.
thanks for sharing your thoughts though, sharing's good; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcblRaWJPDM