AH challenge: Western Roman Empire survives, Eastern Roman Empire falls

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the western half of the Roman Empire survive while the East falls (so you have to switch their fates).
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the western half of the Roman Empire survive while the East falls (so you have to switch their fates).

Hmm...well...this is going to be quite hard.
Perhaps if Constantine focuses on Rome and the west rather than New Rome(Byzantium) and the east? If Constantine were to establish a dynasty in the vein of OTL Byzantine Empire in the west, it *may* be able to hang on. Money is DEFINATELY going to be a major pain in the collective Roman ass though(Perhaps the west focuses on trade after the east falls?). This is, however, a weak position.
 
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You could have the White Huns defeat Persia (Sassanids) and then move on to the ERE. They manage to conquer most of the ERE's Asian parts but dissapear like most nomad empire's do. Then the Huns (under Atilla) invade. Pushing the Goths to Constantinople, the Goths are defeated in the siege of Constantinople and accept Foederatii status. They are transported to the others side of the Bosphorus and have the Imperial order to seize back the provinces of Pontus and Cappacocia. Then the Huns cross the Danube river sacking the Balkans and conquering Constantinople after the gates are opened after 2 years of sieging.

With this the ERE is gone, and with a competent Emperor (if youre lucky) in the West the WRE can survive in Spain,Italy,North Africa and some parts of gaul while most Germanic tribes are at war with eachother or trying to get a piece of the ERE pie.
 

Germaniac

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Well with an early enough POD get rid of the Third Century Crisis. You have a stronger west and alot of the problems stemming from it are Gone. Then The Huns and Goths find that the East is the easier target. All following Barbarians go to the real roman capital of constantinople. Rome survives, the WRE is able to hold on.
 
There was a TL posted here awhile back where the Goths took Constantinople and all the Germans went into Asia Minor and even Egypt (!).
 
Might happen as late as ~394AD. Have the Fridigus [sp] go the other way with the eastern roman army under Theodosius heavily defeated rather than Arbogast and the western army. The west maintains a powerful army and doesn't have the still probably majority of the pagen population disafected by persecution. Instead its the east that suffers at least limited occupation and conflict. This possibly means the Germans and Huns are able to break more decisively into the Balkans and possibly Anatolia while the Sassanids attack in the east again. Defeated and divided the east goes down, reducing the pressure on the west which uses the breather to putll itself together.

Steve
 
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