Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

New way to calculate route options... Deva, 8.8 days by sea 5.1 days by road.

Aha, another introduction for the repeatedly-introduced Orbis!

(They have rejigged it a bit recently, to be fair, and funnily enough you're the second person I've seen mentioning it today...)

As we discussed before, 10-20 days would be more likely for a sea voyage from Mona to London. Ancient ships cannot sail at a steady speed 24 hours a day. The risks involved would make it an insanely bad idea for anyone in Paulinus's position.

Their 'rapid military march' is a grinding 36 miles a day. I'd say their standard 30km/18 mpd scale is more likely - 10 days Deva to Londinium. Mona strait would add another 3 days to that - all very much in line with the estimates we've been using so far. Up the pace to 20 miles a day and they could do it in 11.5 days.

a new theory with proper "neck on the block" prose (in shoutie caps)

I confess I couldn't get to the end of that one - the shouty caps were giving me a tension headache... But I agree with Michael about the mistakes and assumptions - principal among the latter being that Paulinus could only have heard about the revolt after Colchester had already fallen.