12-02-2018, 10:22 PM
(12-02-2018, 04:43 PM)Renatus Wrote: How do you see them moving about? In a series of smaller, inter-connected groups, perhaps?
Yes, that sounds right. A nucleus around Boudica and the other leaders, with smaller subgroups branching off to plunder and forage, scouting ahead sometimes, rejoining the main group at intervals. More a swarm than a column. The same way that large rebel groups in the pre-modern era generally formed up and moved about.
They would need to maintain some sort of unity for mutual protection, as they would have known that the Roman army was out there somewhere and their strength lay in numbers. But they comprised people from several different tribes, with presumably several different leaders - whoever was in overall control (Boudica, perhaps) would have wanted to keep them together, and avoid factions splitting off and doing their own thing if at all possible.
Nathan Ross