Different wars for the West

What I’m asking here is what would have happened if the Romans followed a different approach during the vandalic and gothic war. Basically a brief gothic war and a long and devastating vandalic war. What I am aiming for is a productive Italy (and if you want you can add Pannonia and arelate), with Rome as the greatest city of the West ( with its consequences on the Roman senate and the italic elites) while Africa is left ravaged with the city of Carthage following the same destiny of Rome OTL. If you need to change something before the reign of Justinian you re allowed to do so but I would like to see most of the events of his reign unchanged (plague, war with Persia ecc) at least until his death. How this changes would affect the empire and especially the western part of it?
 
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What I’m asking here is what would have happened if the Romans followed a different approach during the vandalic and gothic war. Basically a brief gothic war and a long and devastating vandalic war. What I am aiming for is a productive Italy (and if you want you can add Pannonia and arelate), with Rome as the greatest city of the West ( with its consequences on the Roman senate and the italic elites) while Africa is left ravaged with the city of Carthage following the same destiny of Rome OTL. If you need to change something before the reign of Justinian you re allowed to do so but I would like to see most of the events of his reign unchanged (plague, war with Persia ecc) at least until his death. How this changes would affect the empire and especially the western part of it?
I don't think that the Vandals would be able to resist the Byzantine onslaught. The Vandals had a lower population that they could rely upon, more unrest and were losing control to Berber tribes.
 
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That’s why I said you are allowed to change something prior the POD. However I’m more interested in a devastating war rather than a long one (if this is not possible),just make sure that Africa is in the same conditions as OTL Italy after the war
 
That’s why I said you are allowed to change something prior the POD. However I’m more interested in a devastating war rather than a long one (if this is not possible),just make sure that Africa is in the same conditions as OTL Italy after the war
What about a devastating Vandal aswell as Gothic war?
 
What about a devastating Vandal aswell as Gothic war?
I would like to see the effects of the two wars applied to the opposite front. So it’ s ok to screw Roman efforts in Africa (for a while) but the point of this thread is to see the opposite effects in Italy and see how this will change the western half of the empire
 
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