User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part 1)/@comment-1822253-20140102005008/@comment-1822253-20140102044053

One sided? I have to disagree, you've presented a rather one sided argument about the Stormcloaks. As well, the ones who suffered the most from the war was ultimately the Empire. They weren't capable of moving into Dominion lands following their victory because they had to use almost their entire remaining legions, including the ones that are supposed to be defending Hammerfell, High Rock and Skyrim. And they were barely able to squeek by a victory.

And I've already pointed out that the book was written by a Legate in the Imperial Legion. The Empire has a long history of embellishing it's victories to make it appear so much better. Also... where does it say it was the "largest army in Elven history"? No where is that mentioned in the book The Great War,

While you have a point, they might have had fighting experience, this is at most, speculation again. As most Nords follow in their parents footsteps, or at least that is how it is presented in game when you talk to people like Onmund who parents wanted him to also be farmers like them, or at least a hunter. The most fight experience a normal Skyrim citizen has before the Great War, would probably be defending themselves from the occassional wild animal attacks and a bar brawl, at worst bandits.

And yet you support the hastening of the demise of Nirn, odd isn't it? The Empire is the only nation capable of standing up to the Thalmor beyond their own region, that is of course as long as they aren't embroiled in a long and dividing civil war that is costing a lot of manpower and resources. Skyrim will take several decades before an all Nord army is capable of doing anything more then defending itself, and that's if the Thalmor don't decide to take action before hand.