Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

too easily written off as a "Cavalry Dash".

Yeah, not that easily, as people are still supporting it 60 years after Dudley & Webster invented it!

Alan's plan seems pretty good otherwise, but even with the addition of light infantry I don't see a famously cautious commander like Suetonius Paulinus heading off hundreds of miles through hostile territory on a recce mission. No chance he would risk making himself a 'High Value Target'! And, as I've said several times before, he would not have considered fighting a battle in London if he only had a small force of cavalry and light troops with him.

But we know Roman troops could cover ground fast when required, and P 'saved the province with rapid movement' - so surely there's no problem adding a few thousand legionary infantry to his force...?

It does often feel like we haven't really moved anywhere in this debate since 2010 though.