AHC: Western Roman Empire survival

The challenge is to feasibly change historical events so that the Western Roman Empire is able to survive past 476 AD, with a POD of 376 AD.
Would it be possible for the Western Roman Empire to survive up to the late 6th Century or even later?
EDIT: Furthermore, avoid unifying it with the Eastern Roman Empire at any point, even briefly.
 
What counts as a surviving WRE? Would it fulfill the AHC for a barbarian kingdom to assume the WRE title and hold most of the WRE's territory (for example, if Alaric killed or captured Honorius and crowned himself Emperor), or do you require that something like the governing institutions of the Dominate survive?
 
What counts as a surviving WRE? Would it fulfill the AHC for a barbarian kingdom to assume the WRE title and hold most of the WRE's territory (for example, if Alaric killed or captured Honorius and crowned himself Emperor), or do you require that something like the governing institutions of the Dominate survive?

The governing institutions survive. The WRE being conquered by a barbarian kingdom with the leader crowning himself as Emperor/King doesn't count. Any succession must be directly Roman.
If you literally just mean that Honorius is perhaps captured in battle and passes the position of Emperor to Alaric, then that could potentially work so long as the WRE retains its Roman cultural, economical and political systems; though that would not be preferable.
Imagine if for example Mehmed II captured Constantine XI and forced him to declare him Byzantine Emperor. You could interpret it as a continuation of the Byzantine Empire officially, however it would hardly be the same entity, just a Turkish Empire with a Greek name.
 
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I think you would need major economic reform and an end to corruption.

Abolishing corruption in a pre-modern state is ASB: the Roman state would have been entirely unable to function without what we class as "corruption".

As to the OP: the WRE needs a little more luck, to be able to deal with its enemies piecemeal. By far the best late-ish PoD is to have Constantius III survive for another 5-10 years in the 420s: a capable soldier Emperor on the throne who is married into the Theodosian dynasty and focused on expelling the remaining barbarians. With a bit of luck, a surviving Constantius can mop up the remnants of the Vandal-Alans in Iberia, and prevent the Visigoths in Aquitaine from getting too uppity. The WRE thus has cash flowing in from its Iberian and African provinces in the 430s and 440s if and when the Huns hit.

Butterflies mean the Huns are unlikely to collapse as quickly as they did IOTL (if they even rise to superpower status at all) which is a blessing in disguise for the WRE, sparing it from having to deal with so many barbarian groups fleeing Hunpocalypse at the same time. An optimum scenario here would have the Huns firstly failing to gain as much power as they did IOTL, and then unravelling at a more sedate pace thereafter.

So, that gets the WRE into the sixth century, assuming a modicum of good luck. Good luck won't go on for ever, of course, and there's nothing to prevent the Western Roman state going under thereafter: there are still presumably going to be large and organised Germanic groups in this scenario who aren't yet on Roman soil, notably the Franks, Alamanni and Langobards. So, there will be challenges in future, but nothing that necessarily spells the doom of the WRE.
 
Take back North Africa from the Vandals. With a successful landing of the joint ERE and WRE fleets, that should go a long way in assuring the future of the Western Roman Empire.
 
Take back North Africa from the Vandals. With a successful landing of the joint ERE and WRE fleets, that should go a long way in assuring the future of the Western Roman Empire.

Even if this roman admiral would not have acted exceptionally stupid, is THIS the kind of roman empire you would really like to see survive? Seriously? Why?
 
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