User blog comment:IGotsAName/Empire vs Stormcloaks... Gray & Grey Morality? Really?/@comment-108.236.56.194-20130918185457/@comment-108.236.56.194-20130918203153

Same person that wrote this I would like to add that I chose the stormcloaks for a few reasons: 1. The only reason I liked the empire in the first place was due to it ensuring the continuation and protection of the Septim line i.e. the ONLY line of defense against daedric invasion of unimaginable proportions and the ensuing end of the world as we know it. 2. That the current shell of an empire handpicking a high king to play puppet is kinda questionable. 3. That if hammerfell managed to SINGLEHANDEDLY hold off thalmor military's undivided attention, i doubt that the empire continuing the war would not have yielded more successful results. 4. I doubt that the empire will be able to construct/train/breed enough units (i.e. Infantry, equipment, naval unit, mounts, provisions, etc.) to replenish their war engine to viable levels within a reasonable amount of when the thalmer have forcibly shoved themselves so far up the empire's ass that they have permission to stroll into towns and abduct/murder people no questions asked and have spies in their military bases living comfortably. I believe that an independent skyrim actively hunting for thalmor agents and rousing up forces under this new "cloud of war"+forming an alliance with hammerfell and taking advantage of both their lands hostile climates using the gorilla warfare tactics the redguards seem so fond of =a union of two of the fiercest warrior people of all of tamriel who out of all of the races hold the highest lust for revenge for the thalmor (and maybe the empire) after being forced to make the most sacrifices for the sake of an unfair treaty they didn't want. this alliance would be able to build a force capable of taking on the thalmor much faster than a crumbling empire restricted by an oppressive treaty and thoroughly patrolled by spies. The empire has had 30 years to keep true to their promise to reengage the thalmor and from the looks of things its not happening any time soon. It's time someone else had a turn.