Total War: Attila

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Well, no. The Manager was Stilicho, the Late Roman Empire of the West worked around a Child-Emperor and Manager partnership. Just like Valentinian II and Arbogast, Constantius III and Honorius, Valentinian III and Theodosius II, and Valentinian III and Aetius.

Stilicho died because he, IMO, utterly failed to focus on the immediate issues besetting the Western Empire and instead tried to take control of Arcadius in the East as well, and that's what got him killed.

By comparison, Aetius died because Valentinian III suddenly decided he wanted to become an active emperor, which the rest of the Empire didn't like so they killed him hoping to put a new child-emperor on the throne.

This isn't a wide-spread perspective yet because the book on it only came out last year.