Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Nathan Ross]

that's a bit different

Not too different - whether he lures them to fight or forces them to fight, the outcome is the same. Only the level of compulsion differs.

[edit - to be fair I should add that this is all conjecture. Tacitus just says that Suetonius 'gave up delay and prepared to fight a battle' (omittere cunctationem et congredi acie parat), and Dio that he 'was compelled, contrary to his judgment, to engage them'. The first sounds like Suetonius was making the decision, the second like the Britons were making it. Either way, we can't know really.]

At Ivinghoe he is on a ridge

I would probably not choose Ivinghoe itself as a site, but if I had to I would put the Romans in a hollow to one side of the ridge, as I did here.

He isn't a challenge other than mopping up a rear guard... just bimble northeastwards....

Presumably the Britons would not want to have their rearguard mopped up, all the same! Especially as it probably comprised all those carts and families mentioned above...

Any northeastward cross-country 'bimbling' the Britons cared to do would be very hazardous with a Roman army on their tail - especially if Suetonius kept his force on the Iknield, and could march parallel to their route and strike them wherever he chose.

As I suggested above, we don't know that much about the strategic capabilities of Boudica and the Britons, but I think we must assume they were not totally incompetent, or suicidal!

this exercise is making me less positively disposed towards the Chiltern sites than I was earlier.

A shame! Out of interest, though, what was making you postively disposed towards these sites before, and what's changed?