Can Pompey solve this clusterfuck?

When word reaches Rome of Crassus defeat at charhae pompeys is given procounsular authority to take vengeance against the Parthians. A week later word reaches Rome of Caesar fall against the Gauls and rumors of a possible Gallic invasion of Roman territory. This prompts the senate to give Pompey dictatorial authority to deal with both crises. Julia, Caesars daughter, is still alive and has given Pompey a son, pleads with her husband to avenge his father in law personally. His supporters beg him to go east to protect against the Parthians. What does Pompey do in this scenario? And can he solve both crises? If he can what happens? If he can't what happens?
 
He goes to Gaul as it's closer and easier to beat. When he arrives the Gauls are likely fighting amongst themselves and Pompey can split some tribes off as he's no longer trying to conquer them. With the Gauls beaten, he turns east to fight the Parthians, though he will have sent another army led by a trusted ally ahead of him.
Long story short, this is easily recoverable from Rome, as both defeats are far from its core and neither foe has any real capacity to conquer or seriously threaten Italia. A stalemate in Gaul is the worst plausible outcome for Rome, while Parthia isn't getting at Italia unless it spends a lot of resources building a fleet in Palestine, which Rome can counter, or marches through Europe, which would be a nightmare hundreds of kilometers long, filled with local resistance, logical difficulties, and the occasional Roman army sent their way.
 
He goes to Gaul as it's closer and easier to beat. When he arrives the Gauls are likely fighting amongst themselves and Pompey can split some tribes off as he's no longer trying to conquer them. With the Gauls beaten, he turns east to fight the Parthians, though he will have sent another army led by a trusted ally ahead of him.
Long story short, this is easily recoverable from Rome, as both defeats are far from its core and neither foe has any real capacity to conquer or seriously threaten Italia. A stalemate in Gaul is the worst plausible outcome for Rome, while Parthia isn't getting at Italia unless it spends a lot of resources building a fleet in Palestine, which Rome can counter, or marches through Europe, which would be a nightmare hundreds of kilometers long, filled with local resistance, logical difficulties, and the occasional Roman army sent their way.
So he going to keep preconquest boarders in Gaul huh? No trying to save Caesar conquest? Also what vengeance does he take on the Parthians? Also what happens post clusterfuck?
 
So he going to keep preconquest boarders in Gaul huh? No trying to save Caesar conquest? Also what vengeance does he take on the Parthians? Also what happens post clusterfuck?

Seeing as how Pompey disliked Caesar, he wouldn't keep them out of loyalty, but rather out of selfishness as Gaul can be used as a power base outside of Italia. How much he keeps depends on how badly the Gauls are beaten.
In Parthia, it'd probably amount to reclaiming legion standards and Crassus' body initially. Beyond that also depends on how badly the Parthians do.
 
Wait, where are you getting that Pompey disliked Caesar?

From him being a political rival, though I may be remembering from the wrong time in Caesar's life. Nevertheless, he'd still avoid the excesses of Caesar to keep from alienating the Senate (the Ides of March didn't come out of thin air) and being mindful of what happened to Caesar (likely hacked to pieces and desecrated by the Gauls).
 
From him being a political rival, though I may be remembering from the wrong time in Caesar's life. Nevertheless, he'd still avoid the excesses of Caesar to keep from alienating the Senate (the Ides of March didn't come out of thin air) and being mindful of what happened to Caesar (likely hacked to pieces and desecrated by the Gauls).
On a personal level, Pompey and Caesar got along quite well, and considered each other friends (Pompey rejecting another marriage offer from Caesar aside. That was a purely political decision to allow him to shop for more political alliances through marriage). It was one of the reasons why Caesar spent so much effort trying to get Pompey to agree to meet him in person during the political crisis before he crossed the Rubicon. And it's why Caesar's enemies spent so much effort making sure Pompey stayed in Rome and didn't meet with Caesar. If they had met, they would have reached an agreement. Any political rivalry between the two only showed up shortly before the crisis.
 
On a personal level, Pompey and Caesar got along quite well, and considered each other friends (Pompey rejecting another marriage offer from Caesar aside. That was a purely political decision to allow him to shop for more political alliances through marriage). It was one of the reasons why Caesar spent so much effort trying to get Pompey to agree to meet him in person during the political crisis before he crossed the Rubicon. And it's why Caesar's enemies spent so much effort making sure Pompey stayed in Rome and didn't meet with Caesar. If they had met, they would have reached an agreement. Any political rivalry between the two only showed up shortly before the crisis.

So I was remembering the wrong time in their lives?
 
So I was remembering the wrong time in their lives?
Basically, Pompey only saw Caesar as a rival after Caesar's immense success in Gaul. And even then, there were political uses to having him as an ally. Im not sure there's any evidence they ever had any antipathy on a personal level. At least from Caesar's side, he always seems to have kept a fondness for Pompey on a personal level even during the civil war. Now that I think about it, that's a recurring trait with Caesar. He did the same thing with Cicero, despite Cicero never really thinking highly of Caesar.
 
Seeing as how Pompey disliked Caesar, he wouldn't keep them out of loyalty, but rather out of selfishness as Gaul can be used as a power base outside of Italia. How much he keeps depends on how badly the Gauls are beaten.
In Parthia, it'd probably amount to reclaiming legion standards and Crassus' body initially. Beyond that also depends on how badly the Parthians do.
Well he loves his wife Caesars daughter who crying out for vengeance so does that affect anything? Also after beating the Romans the Gauls are divied again.
 
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