Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-3539474-20130916205233

Pink Slim wrote: Northwatch keep is not strong enough to defeat skyrim, no matter who wins the civil war, without backup; they are right next to solitude an extremely well geared point of interest, they can either ignore it and have Solitude attack them from the rear, or they can try to take them from the two entrances to the city, and without a doubt Solitude has more soldiers than northwatch, and Northwatch has no backup.

And that's even if they weren't massacred by the LDB during missing in action.

And if the Stormcloaks win, their is no doubt that they'd either tell the Thalmor in Northwatch to leave, or they'd just massacre them.

Divide and conquer is a valid military strategy because divided resources and decentralized leadership is generally a bad thing in any war. The Thalmor doing that to you no matter which side you picked.

Skyrim is isolated from the Ad territories far up north. They have to go through the Imperials or Argons to get to them, and I doubt the Argons care for the Thalmor much. The AD couldn't go by sea effectively since they would have to go around Hammerfall and could easily provoke the Redguards and they don't want that due to Sentinel army's shore batteries/cannons.