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Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.
(09-07-2016, 07:07 PM)John1 Wrote: if he'd gone up Icknield he'd just have made such reinforcement harder to achieve

Ah yes, sorry - I didn't mean that he would actually follow the Iknield, just remain around the junctions of it and one of his routes of reinforcement (Watling or Akeman). If he remained close to the Britons - within a single day's march of them - he could watch their movements, harry their foragers, threaten their flanks and use the manoeuvrability of his small mobile force to gain an advantageous position once they advanced in his direction.

He could not do this if he went further north - he would be out of contact with them and heading in the wrong direction. If he knew there was a large body of reinforcements only a day or two away then he might have done this, but only to regroup before leading his augmented force south again. If you're proposing that he stayed in the Midlands, we're back to thinking of reasons why the Britons would go and find him there.

I still don't go with the idea of Paulinus sort of challenging the Britons to a showdown at a distant site of his choosing. This seems to leave too much to chance, and we know that he was 'skillful' in his strategic thinking.



(09-07-2016, 07:07 PM)John1 Wrote: you are making this way too easy for me.

I'm glad you think so! [Image: tongue.png]


(09-07-2016, 07:07 PM)John1 Wrote: The 10k is still under suspicion as an understatement...

Is it? I would say it was one of the more reliable army-estimates in Roman literature! One legion plus a vexillation, plus a 50/50 auxiliary support, would make around 10K. It's the numbers of the Britons that I'd find hard to believe...



(09-07-2016, 07:07 PM)John1 Wrote: Partying with Mrs Getafix

fnarr! [Image: wink.png]
Nathan Ross
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Re: Calling all armchair generals! - by Ensifer - 03-11-2010, 03:13 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-18-2012, 06:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 12:02 AM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 02:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 05:40 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 02-19-2012, 11:26 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 05:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 09:42 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-24-2012, 10:10 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:11 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 03:25 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-25-2012, 08:36 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-26-2012, 02:57 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 04-27-2012, 01:50 PM
Re: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by Steve Kaye - 08-05-2012, 02:24 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-07-2014, 02:18 PM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-08-2014, 01:50 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-11-2014, 02:03 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-18-2014, 07:54 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-20-2014, 02:37 AM
Calling all armchair generals! Boudica\'s Last Stand. - by antiochus - 11-25-2014, 08:29 AM
RE: Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand. - by Nathan Ross - 09-07-2016, 08:10 PM

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