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Zjuggernaut

Zjuggernaut

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Who would you be? I'm assuming you'd choose someone 'big' (Khan or Stalin for example). I had this conversation with a friend and it was difficult to choose.

I'd probably settle for Alexander the Great.
 
Cleopatra, Queen Victoria and a number of classic film actresses: Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn.

But if I had to pick one, it would be Boudica. That chick was hard as nails.
 
Al Di Meola.

He's my favourite guitarist at the moment, and he's still alive, so I don't know if he counts as being "from history", but **** YOU IT'S MY CHOICE.
 
Hitler, and I'd do it better.
 
Kurt Vonnegut.
Needs no explanation.
 
hmmmm, Captain Morgan.
 
Richard III, I'd make better preparations for the battle of Bosworth (Maybe hire a few thousand German mercs) and send Henry Tudor on a one way trip to kingdom come. I'd then make sure that any Tudor propaganda built up during the war of the roses was turn down and burnt saving my now tarnished and falsely tainted reputation. Long live the Plantagenets, down with the Tudor pretenders!


Being a Roman Emperor is pretty damn tempting too, I'd try to be one of the decent ones rather than the debauched, amoral crackpots I've grown so used to hearing about. Don't get me wrong I'd still be a force to reckoned with, my foreign policy would be pretty aggressive (has to be when your building an Empire,) but once I conquer a land the citizens there can consider themselves full Roman's each with the right to rise into positions of power within the senate and army just like any born Roman, as long as they support Imperial policy of course.
 
SelfAppointedGunslinger said:
but once I conquer a land the citizens there can consider themselves full Roman's each with the right to rise into positions of power within the senate and army just like any born Roman, as long as they support Imperial policy of course.
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You'd be assassinated within weeks if you did that by members of the Senate. Augustus gave everybody in the Empire citizenship, but letting them become part of the senate, or become senior officers? Even actual Romans couldn't do that if they weren't part of an established upper-class family.

For me, it would be Archimedes. I just have to make sure that Roman Soldier dosen't kill me.
 
Casanova!!

As portrayed in the 2005 TV series when played by David Tennant.
 
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the second great unifier.

Not only did he unify Japan, but he was also the first ruler of all Japan after the unification. A badass warrior who led a legion of samurai that ended the Sengoku period, not to mention he had an exceptionally fine harem selection.
 
Beowulf.

He was a Geat. I am a Geat.
 
The White Knight said:
You'd be assassinated within weeks if you did that by members of the Senate. Augustus gave everybody in the Empire citizenship, but letting them become part of the senate, or become senior officers? Even actual Romans couldn't do that if they weren't part of an established upper-class family.

For me, it would be Archimedes. I just have to make sure that Roman Soldier dosen't kill me.
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Yeah, I suppose you're right but still, I'd have one hell of a legacy for doing something so outragious yet benefital (benefical for some at least.) Ah yes: "Today class we're going to learn about the super dupper generous Emperor Lucius the nice guy." Even if I got wasted for it, it would be nice to be remembered as the Roman emperor who wasn't a jerk. Plus the citizens of rome would probably start a riot and round up the ones who did me in (that has been known to happen in ancient rome, so I'd be in my grave laughing.)
 
SelfAppointedGunslinger said:
Plus the citizens of rome would probably start a riot and round up the ones who did me in (that has been known to happen in ancient rome, so I'd be in my grave laughing.)
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You'd think so. But when Julius Caesar was killed, Brutus and the other assassins convinced the crowd that what they had done was right, and then Mark Antony convinced them otherwise shortly afterward. Shakespeare makes fun of them in the play. They changed their minds an awful lot, and even when people who tried to give them more power were killed, they didn't care, at least not for long. (The Graachus Twins are good examples of this)
 
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