Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26213507-20150715194939/@comment-24075086-20150808182700

Shigeru Thalmor Slayer wrote: Phantasys wrote: Well Hammerfell ALONE got a better treaty...pretty sure even a street drunk could've gotten a better deal with the whole of the empire at his back. Man, I said this several times and I will repeat. I hear a lot of people saying "The Empire is full of cowards! They surrendered to the Dominion, even when they had the upper hand!". Yes, the Empire surrendered while the Dominion was on the run. But did they really have the upper hand? Think about it. The Empire had the manpower to invade and take Summerset Isles, but did they have the supplies? No, they didn't. Cyrodill was cut off from the other provinces during the Great War, severely limiting their supplies. Even after they managed to retake the Imperial city, they still didn't have enough supplies for an immediate assault. They would have had to march thousands of exhausted soldiers through the sea, sailed through an undamaged Aldmeri fleet, and take the Summerset Isles. Good luck with that. And no, they didn't surrender, it was a peace treaty. Both faction had no condition to continue the war. So the Empire chose to live to fight another day instead to lick the floor the Thalmor step on to live another day. All they had to do was KEEP THE THALMOR FROM LANDING! Nobody said anything about invading, the only thing they had to do to get a far better deal was to keep dominion troops from getting into Cyrodil and invading the imperial city...that's it. It's literally the simplest thing ever in their situation! The empire didn't have to WIN then...only to keep a stalemate long enough to negotiate a treaty that wasn't a kick to the balls for the whole empire! I understand the need for a peace treaty...I really do...but the point is with the position they were in they were under no circumstance to accept such an outrage and betrayal of a treaty.