The Great Sulla

Solo was unanimously chosen to head up the army's headed east. Marius decided that rather than go out quietly, he would order his hardcore partisans to do everything in their power to reverse the decision and place Marius himself back in charge. But though he briefly held on to power, Marius's desperate, selfish grab triggered a wholly unprecedented response from Sulla who did not take his eviction well. Pretty soon, word reached Marius and his partisans that the aggrieved consul was on his way back, at the head of a full consular army. Sulla, it seemed, was marching on Rome.