Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Robert Vermaat]

But we perhaps shouldn't discount the idea that the eastern Britons might have had closer cultural and even ethnic links with the peoples on the far side of the North Sea - Menapii, Batavians, Tungri perhaps - than the Britons of the far west and north. Britain at this date was surely not a sealed environment populated by an entirely homogenous people.

I would think that would be more the case for the tribes along the south coast? I could not say that the Iceni were not any different from their neighbours, but if so that would be far more the case of the Cantiaci, the Artrebates, Regni and Durotriges?

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I considered this a while back.  My suggestion was that Paulinus' original intention was to go along Watling Street to Lutterworth, divert along the Via Devana to Godmanchester and link up with Cerialis and the Ninth Legion there.  The combined force would then advance to the relief of Colchester.  If he learned of the fall of Colchester and the defeat of Cerialis when he was between Lutterworth and Godmanchester, he could carry on to Godmanchester and then take Ermine Street down to London.  

Has there ben any research about the extent of the defeat of Legio VIIII, as well as the place of the ambush?
And how would the succesful ambush of Cerialis have been a factor in the mind of the british as to the approach of Paulinus?