Hi everyone, welcome to another ancient warfare answers. I'm Murray Dam and Yaspah Ortajah is with me as well.

We are going to answer some of your questions on ancient warfare. First up is a question about whether

Budica stood a chance in her rebellion in England, or Britain, Britannia. And if you were to add all the force multipliers, some form of alliance, what if they used

every force multiplier in the book?

Could Budica have won?

Yes, but.

I, well, so what if?

So, you know, we're going to have to put all kinds of if, buts, maybes, and

all those things in front of everything we say. But, you know, could Budica have won the Battle

of Watling Street under other circumstances? Possibly. I mean, it's certainly not impossible for a Roman

Legion to be defeated. The question is, really, could Budica have won in the long term?

And that you can probably only answer by trying to define what would have been, you know,

do we know what Budica's long-term goals were?

I don't think so.

It seems she's presented just as a tribal leader who goes on a rampage to, you know, take revenge of what has happened to her and her family, the abuses of the Roman tax collectors,

and the, you know, the violation of her daughters and herself. So, you know, we'd have to

define something. Is that tribal independence or is that you know clear the Romans off of

Britain entirely um i i don't know but i would say that probably the answer is no um and and that

is because if you look at the Romans in general, their behavior, how they deal with

any kind of enemy, really, over their entire history, is that they fight the war until

it's over, until the enemy is on its knees and has no fight left anymore.

So that means that she might have had defeated the Romans and there's certainly more wars that begin that way. By a series of defeats

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