having to choose between either following the overdecadent senate oligarchs or the charismatic and talented caesar, the choice is simple. all hail imperator caesar. it has been stated alrdy but the republican was - if not dead alrdy - rotting away rapidly since the time before marian. remaining an empire but retaining the institutes of a city-state simply didn't work.

if i was to be a plebejan it would be simple anyway but even as patrician i would have still followed caesar. the republic needed to be reformed and caesar was the right man to do so. to bad he got killed.

in the aftermath choosing for octavian seems sensible to me. marc anthony never appealed much to me as a leader, talented as he was! - i'm by any means NOT stating he was incapable, for he was in his own way.


this is my personal opinion on 'what i would've done if i was there'