Saves the Empire from Sassanids

>Saves the Empire from Sassanids
>gets assassinated

>general saves the empire from Hunnic invasion
>imperial office sues for peace with Huns anyway giving them time to recover
>emperor literally murders the general responsible for the crushing victory with his own hand

fuck rome to be quite honest

>Saves the Empire from the Huns
>gets assassinated

The emperor didn't want to be victim of a coup. A capable general that was well-liked by the plebs was a threat.

Aetiusmind

he only guaranteed his death, and the death of rome

>Saves the Empire from assassins
>gets Sassanided

the same goes for shapur ater carrhae

Could be worse.

Qutuz saved his empire from the Mongols of all people. And was assassinated.

The absolute irony that Aetius was the only thing keeping Valentinian afloat never ceases to get me. 5th Century West is just one bad decision after another.

>Unites the Roman Empire and saves it from multiple barbarian invasion against all odds.

>Assasinated by Praetorians

>Praetorians
NOT FOR LONG

>competent emperor
>his troops murder him
>competent general
>his emperor murders him
how the fuck did Rome even survive at all Jesus fuck

out of all the shitty emperors commudus deserved the worst

Crisis of third century onwards Romans were full blown stupid.

Legit no clue how a great emperor like Marcus Aurelius could produce such an idiot manchild as Commodus.

>blessing by the sun god

I wish Cato could have witnessed the end of Rome.

if I pulled that mask off would your empire fall?

>participates in many glad matches involving subhuman barbs and lions
>participates in batttles
>father was benevolent af
shame he would have been a warrior emperor just like gratian or basil ii etc

it would be abolutely overruned by northern subhumans

>Stays loyal despite Western Emperor being a mouth-breathing retard and stops Goths from invading Rome
>Emperor orders to execute him anyway
>Rome gets sacked soon after

For (you)

He would've killed himself by the time he reached the crisis of the 3rd century

He didn't inherit the good genes from Aurelius, I guess.
And maybe his father was distant.

>proclaims sol invictus
have we started the fire?

While Dad was off fighting Marcommani and Quadi invasions, Commodus spent his time whoring and partying. By the time it was becoming too big of a problem for even Marcus himself to ignore, he had Commodus shipped off to the front lines in order to toughen him up.

All that did was make Commodus fucking hate military life, and almost as soon as his father died he brokered a peace treaty with the Germanics even as his armies were on the verge of permanently pacifying them, and fled back to Rome to wallow in whores, parties, and starring in rigged gladiator matches to show everyone what a chad he was, which got so far out of hand that he was murdered by his own wrestling coach while taking a bath for being a megalomaniac becoming more unhinged as time went on

Also, he spent the first part of his reign fighting off conspiracies from Marcus' 13 other children. That by all accounts had a terrible effect on his psyche.

>from Marcus' 13 other children.

Heard most of them had died, and Commodus was the only male left?

As a rome-aboo I dont feel any loss/sadness at the fall of the West,

Honestly, it had it coming

>not killing Ricimer
>he converts Empire into corrupted shithole where Emperors are used as toilet paper