"it can be rolled over from one end to the other" Owain.
I'm not expecting them to be using the camps as strong points. At the time of contact I would expect the Romans to be deployed in the open field along a section of a the ridge top with well anchored flanks. Camps are camps and function as camps, camps for a field army that engages in the open ground assisted by terrain advantage selected by Paulinus .
Equally I don't think forested ridgetops are a meaningful defence. I think the only British woodland typology that provides a meaningful defence against light infantry is boggy valley bottoms choked with willow and alder scrub/carr, these are the "backed by woods" Tacitus refers to and they surround 3 sides of the CS site compelling a British approach from the East.Ask yourself why
"ask yourself why...." Owain.
I did out loud, twice, it sounded just as silly. They are camps not strongholds and they are within spitting distance of each other with sensibly scaled perimeters.....
"Sorry John. I don't think he would have got through the Atlas mountains fighting like this.... " Owain
condescending much? As your description is clearly a misinterpretation of my position it's a pointless apology but thank you anyway....(retires from the thread in despair again - bye)
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I'm not expecting them to be using the camps as strong points. At the time of contact I would expect the Romans to be deployed in the open field along a section of a the ridge top with well anchored flanks. Camps are camps and function as camps, camps for a field army that engages in the open ground assisted by terrain advantage selected by Paulinus .
Equally I don't think forested ridgetops are a meaningful defence. I think the only British woodland typology that provides a meaningful defence against light infantry is boggy valley bottoms choked with willow and alder scrub/carr, these are the "backed by woods" Tacitus refers to and they surround 3 sides of the CS site compelling a British approach from the East.Ask yourself why
"ask yourself why...." Owain.
I did out loud, twice, it sounded just as silly. They are camps not strongholds and they are within spitting distance of each other with sensibly scaled perimeters.....
"Sorry John. I don't think he would have got through the Atlas mountains fighting like this.... " Owain
condescending much? As your description is clearly a misinterpretation of my position it's a pointless apology but thank you anyway....(retires from the thread in despair again - bye)
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