Fear is a powerful weapon, if you make your general out to be this giant, bloodthirsty killing machine with thousands of bodies in his wake... who would want to fight him in their right mind?

When it comes down to brutal pragamism the Lanius is better but only because he isn't emotionally invested in the conflict. New Vegas is Caeser's Rome not his. Lanius' real goal would be California as he basically states at the end of the Legion campaign. He isn't a smart as Caeser and I doubt that he'd be able to keep control of the whole of the Legion after the horrific loss of the Mojave Campaign. The death of the top members of the Legion can't be overstated and since the whole Dam operation was basically Centurations he'd be screwed. I do respect him since he knows when to stop but that's only in the face of defeat, facing the Courier. If he was true leader after Caeser's death he'd relize the Mojave was a death trap and retreat. It's not his campaign, nor his battle to fight, it's Caeser's from the grave.

I can understand gambling to take the Mojvae but after the desturction of Searchlight, Nipton and Nelson. The armed defense of Freeside, Westside, and Novac in which many die. And of course the massarces of Bitter Springs, Red Rock, The Strip, and Old Mormon Fort, who the hell is going to be part of there damn army anyway? The gecko's? In the end like Lanius said the Legion barely survived a situation like this in Denver which had few tribes and that he sees the same in the Mojave. Only this time the time field commanders are dead, the leader and founder is dead, many generals back east have there own goals for power and the largest nation on the planet is going to be back for revenge....not even the Legion could withstand.

No, Caesar's plan is to use alternate entries, Lanius's plan is pretty much Olivers 'THROW EM AT IT!' plan.

Even Vulpes says that Lanius does not care about casualties, only victory. Even going so far as to say 'though unsubtle, he is not dim'. People are chalking up more to Lanius than he has.

Lanius doesn't care about his men, and he's willing to gamble them over the Mojave but he's not [censored] as you're trying to make him. He has logistical and tactcial experience that's unmatched, especially for an uneducated murderer, and the very fact he's willing to listen to reason is a maginal point up over Caeser.

Lanius expresses dislike of Vulpe's subtle spy-ish tactics. The ONLY reason he listens to the Courier is because as Lanius personifies the might of the East, the Courier personifies the might of the West. Lanius respects only strength, not subtlety, not tactics. He respects the lives of his men only as much as losing them means losing their strength- hence the decimations of the losers. After all, if they were strong, they wouldn't have lost.