User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140101234739/@comment-1600847-20140103182333

@Stuhn no one said they had way more armies (unless I missed something), only that there's no way of knowing how many troops they had left. For all we know they had about the same amount of soldiers as the Empire. Or more, or less, or none at all and they simply bluffed. The point is we don't know.