Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

It's a significant diversion.....

Both sites are only 10-12 miles from St Albans, so not much of a diversion.

I'm sure anyone looking at your plan will see that Boudica's route home - whether in a direct line or via the Iknield Way, which runs approximately parallel to your arrow but on the far side of the Chilterns - would be threatened by a Roman force of 10K men half a day's march in their rear. Especially as he could be reinforced along either Watling or Akeman Street, or both.

Suetonius Paulinus's plan was to lure the Britons into attacking him on ground which favoured his forces. By positioning himself at Tring or Dunstable he could do just that. No unusual long-distance movements are required by either side.

approaching along the Chiltern ridge.... or bringing in a right hook from any direction from Luton..... 

Once again, this depends on our ideas of the tactical and strategic capabilities, and movement speed, of Boudica's army. I would think that any large and mostly untrained force moving with wheeled transport (carrying their families and loot, that they would not want to leave unprotected) would be unlikely to start making right hooks or traversing ridges. And if they tried to do so, Paulinus could easily have moved to oppose them.