Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-29729442-20161212012142/@comment-26893431-20170424110605

76.127.37.224 wrote: To add to my above comment, technically Skyrim does get a medieval war right, as does mount and blade.Trade didn't stop just because there was a war. People didn't just kill eachother at random, technically life went on as normal, with a few exceptions. This is true even now. If I were to send you to a nation that was at war, unless you were in combat you'd probably not even think there was a war. Your concept of what war "feels like" probably comes from movies and the way it's depicted in those is always wrong. Total War games get the concept of a "war" extremely well, only on the frontlines are you truly affected, aside from possible port blockations.

But the war in Skyrim is not real in the slightest, you don't defend a capital Hold with some 20 soldiers at the frontlines, nor do you attack with waves of 20 soldiers at a time.