I accidentally walked into caesars tent while cleaning out the fort and somehow survived the ordeal.
Shortly after I left the Tops and had all of my "evil" deeds against the legion wiped out, I headed over to meet the guy by the boats at cottonwood cove (which I wiped out days earlier in a fit of anti-legion drunkeness)
While I stood at the overlook, staring down at the lonely guy on the dock in the middle of the ravaged camp I decided that I was really done with diplomacy after the 30th time some legion raiding parties had attacked me unprovoked, forcing me to hurt my rep by blowing their heads off.
I sniped his head clean off and had to go for a swim to search his body, then I took the boat and Boone and proceeded to cross over to the fort, and kill everyone in sight other than the legion kids and slaves.
Boone was fairly untouchable in ranger armor using the antimaterial rifle and pushy. I wore combat armor mk2 and a ranger helmet and ate a cocktail of med-x, psycho, slasher and steady every minute or so while we breezed thru most everyone in camp but the little building full of praetorians where you can put the chip in the console.
After 1 reload from a hard save and wiping them across the floor, I started poking around for the rest of the enemy, not realizing I'd walked right past caesars tent earlier. I ended up doubling back, going to check the tent that I thought was empty for loot, and unexpectedly being face to face with his crazy gaurds while I got slapped around the tent with ballistic fists.
About a minute later, I'd eaten 25 stimpaks, 2 super stims, fired a good 300 rounds of 10mm into everyone's faces at point blank range and even resorted to close range sniping a couple of guys with .JSP.
I think the stream of bullets I was pestering them with kept them off of Boone and chasing me just long enough that he survived the fight. Somewhere in there he switched out to the Chainsaw as well, making the whole scene kind of impressive in a cinematic sense.
all told, it was a pretty tough fight inside that tiny tent and even more fun because I walked into it blindly.