Boudicca wasn't Napoleon, the British forces present weren't under a formal chain of command and were almost certainly at each others throats and largely strategically and tactically incompetent at this scale of manoeuvre. They probably gathered in a Glastonbury scale mess at a predetermined location over the course of days, I go for Hunsbury but that is completely open. They know there are a lot of Romans a few miles away, they have a party and in the morning they start moving as an undisciplined horde. Roman auxiliary cavalry engages some elements, shepherding the mass in the right direction.
Front elements (more "Intercity Firm" rival gangs than a a disciplined brigade) take the line of least resistance, the uncontested valley floor. Momentum draws everyone else behind into the killing ground at the foot of Weedon Hill. Bingo!!! A ridge top of ballistas, scorpios, slingers, kitchen sink hurlers pound the Brits in an entirely one sided mugging.
We are dealing with something way more loose than Napoleonic Armies on the British side. This was a huge, uncontrolled and barely informed mob, it's really the only way the asymmetrical results can be accounted for.
Think Green Street, not Waterloo... Apply military logic to the Romans, mob logic to the Brits.....
Front elements (more "Intercity Firm" rival gangs than a a disciplined brigade) take the line of least resistance, the uncontested valley floor. Momentum draws everyone else behind into the killing ground at the foot of Weedon Hill. Bingo!!! A ridge top of ballistas, scorpios, slingers, kitchen sink hurlers pound the Brits in an entirely one sided mugging.
We are dealing with something way more loose than Napoleonic Armies on the British side. This was a huge, uncontrolled and barely informed mob, it's really the only way the asymmetrical results can be accounted for.
Think Green Street, not Waterloo... Apply military logic to the Romans, mob logic to the Brits.....
