Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

I dont need to imagine, we have T* telling us how they went ashore under P and later under Agricola

Obviously i was asking how he got to Anglesey from Wroxeter, since we were discussing roads. As I am sure you know.

your wrong to say so and wrong to say i say so and wrong to say Pliny and Varro say so

I literally quoted these authors, with exact references, saying that crops were sown in the autumn.

You have provided no quotes, only vague references which do not say what you think they say. Your idea about the 'four month fallow period', for example, apparently comes from Pliny's discussion about planting spring beans.

Orbis at the theoretical 250 courier speed comes out at 42 or 44 depending if its fastest or shortest route.

Orbis gives 9.9 days for a courier London to Rome, 8 days Rome to Cologne, 18.5 days march Cologne to London. 36.4 days total.

At this point I have no idea what you are going on about - whether anyone else has or not, I expect we will only bore everyone further by continuing this discussion.

No you have done away with the mules and had them cross country for 60 miles to get to a road

Did you not notice the mule I mentioned in the paragraph you quoted?

Not at all, its your timeline that he goes to london... Since none of that is anything to do with your timeline and logistics i leave that alone

Ha, no - it's not so easy I'm afraid.

Tacitus (not my timeline) tells us that Suetonius Paulinus marched to London. He describes what he did when he got to London, and that he was considering fighting a battle there, then he tells us how and why he left.

Any notion of logistics that makes it impossible for Paulinus to reach London from Anglesey must therefore be ruled out of our considerations. And this, you see, is why I keep asking you to try and work it out for yourself. If you do, and realise the impossibility of what you are proposing, you will swiftly see that your logistical calculations are giving you the wrong answers.

have you visited the site and looked at the topography and Is there a defile??... Vespasian's camps before, he was big in the Chilterns ?

I haven't - just found it on Google Maps. It is close to something that could fall into the all-too-elastic definition of a 'defile' though

I hadn't heard of any known camps in the Chilterns. Which ones were you thinking of?