Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.255.98.169-20130504143516/@comment-24081142-20131112202204

My oh my, where to start...

1.  Yes, town guards are hard on high difficulty levels. So are Falmer. Difficulty level affects every creature so it makes no sense to use that as an argument.

2.  The Empire, quite obviously, has no troops to spare - if it did, the Stormcloaks would have already been defeated. So they won'r be sending reinforcements, for fear of weakening their defences elsewhere. And the Thalmor, I would think, would just sit back and laugh if the Falmer invaded. If Skyrim was conquered by Falmer (or, for that matter, anybody), the Stormcloaks will be defeated completely, and the Empire will lose what control they currently have and therefore be weakened. So in fact, the Thalmor are the only power group who stand to lose nothing if Skyrim is invaded by Falmer, and hence they have no reason to fight them.

3.  As you say, Nords survived under the rule of Dragons. In other words, they were defeated and conquered, and the Dragons chose to let them live. Even when the Nords learned the Thu'um, they still couldn't truly defeat the dragons, they just put them to sleep and told Alduin 'come back later'. And saying that 'Nords are the best warriors' is meaningless, because the vast majority of Nords are merchants and farmers with no particular skill in battle. It is possible that Nords have the potential to be the best warriors, but that doesn't mean that they can all fight.

4.  I haven't noticed Chaurus-based armour having any special vulnerability to fire, and lighting one of them on fire, strangely enough, doesn't spontaneously kill all the others for no reason. Sorry...

5.  You did manage to get one part of one sentence right, Forsworn probably won't be pleased to see the Falmer. But to be honest, they don't have the numbers, mobility, or individual strength to oppose them. They won't 'fight each other to extinction', they will fight until the Forsworn are all dead.

6.  'Blind idiots' who have survived for many, many centuries in ruins which are filled with traps and murderous robots, and caves where the only other life-form are Chaurus. And the Falmer hunt them, blindly, and still manage to kill enough to make everything they own.

Oh, and knowing how to swing an axe doesn't make you a 'military genius'...