Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

you fairly obviously haven't... tried to hack your way through mature willow scrub 

And nor have the Britons, if your suggestion that they can 'bimble along ridgetops' is correct; this scrub you mention is in the surrounding valleys, as your map makes clear. There would be no reason for them to go anywhere near it.

(have you even been to Tring?)

Of course not. This is a thread for 'armchair generals'...

exactly the case you have made against Tring in this exchange.... can you feel the light beginning to dawn on your errors?

Sadly I do not. The case remains that if the Britons were able or likely to attack across high ridges and up and down slopes then Suetonius Paulinus would not have placed his troops in a defile with high ground on each side 'as a defence'. He did, and so they were not. Case closed!