Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Renatus]

 I think it may be a 2 year event as you can’t get the crops and campaign to align in a single year, nor do I see an easy way to establish a timeline for a single campaign period.

I don't see this as a problem.  Nathan has made a case for the revolt starting after the harvest in AD61 and for the campaign being a short one.  I have made a crude calculation of the time it would take the rebel army with ox-drawn wagons to travel from Thetford to Tring, via Colchester, London and St. Albans.  This is approximately 144 miles and, at eight miles a day, would take 18 days.  If you want to go as far north as Church Stowe (too far, as I've said before, but we'll let that pass), the figures become 178 miles and 22 days.  Obviously, this does not take account of the time spent in sacking Colchester, London and St. Albans (at least two days in the case of Colchester) and other delays but it gives an idea of the sort of time-scale we are talking about.

On that basis, the beginning of the uprising to the final battle could easily be accomplished within one year.  However, that is not the whole story and Suetonius' campaign of reprisals could easily have extended into the following year.  This brings me to the famine.  Tacitus does not actually tell us when this took place and, as I have argued before, it need not have been during the winter of AD61-62.  If the harvest had been got in but no new crops planted, the famine could have occurred in the winter of AD62-63 and even beyond that, if they had had to eat the seed corn.  This results in a lengthy period of misery, beginning with the reprisals and extending into a famine of possibly many months' duration.