02-15-2018, 11:28 PM
(02-15-2018, 06:32 PM)Theoderic Wrote: 10. SP Heads West down the Lower Icknield Way for the quickest way to Silchester and to avoid any Brythons from the at North, from the East down the Icknield but then decides that he has no option but to fight and chooses to fight at West Wycombe with the whole of the Brythonic army opposed to him.
I'm afraid that this does not work for me. If Paulinus moved south (as he would be doing, if he ended up at West Wycombe), he would not only be moving away from his main source of reinforcements, the legions coming down from North Wales, but would be allowing the Britons to get behind him and cut him off from them. If he really felt that the potential battle sites in the Tring area did not give him the protection he needed, he would have little alternative but to go west and meet his reinforcements on or near the Fosse Way at Cirencester.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
