User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-5700881-20131108114507/@comment-5700881-20131201013634

Fair enough, I was wrong.

I don't know if what he did qualifies as being a wuss or just incompetent, I'll say for myself that he's incompetent, but I can more than understand that viewpoint.

I'm aware of just how big a deal Talos is to the Nords, I don't know, I just feel that the Nords as a whole could have been more mature about it.

I know we said we'll agree to disagree, but I just want to say a few final things, I hope this doesn't come across as beating a recently dead horse(not anymore than a Civil War discussion). I agree Toryyg wasn't an adequate leader and Skyrim would stand to benefit if he's deposed and someone more competent took his place, I just feel that what Ulfric did should only have been a last resort/plan B, and according to numerous witnesses what he did was his only action, he should have at least tried diplomacy, and if it worked and Skyrim seceded THEN focus on having someone take his place, and if it failed then try and impeach him, just not killing him and starting a war with casualties on both sides. There were numerous less violent actions Ulfric could have taken, but he didn't.

I know about gameplay and story segregation, but the walls of Whiterun are clearly rather short compared to the other walled cities, and I don't remember hearing or reading anything that says they are quite tall, if you have any references let me know. So they aren't a problem, as in places one could easily scale/jump over them. And I know in-lore the gates would have been locked, I wasn't being entirely serious about it, and the reasons why, but the only siege weapon I see as being useful would be the battering ram. Although, as a question, do you see it being feasible to merge Whiterun and Skyrim together just for the duration of that quest? So they could add some assets for a gate bashing sequence? Just a question, as you are a member of the glorious PC gaming master race.

Well, nothing we really disagree on when it comes to the facts and chances of attacks succeeding, possible alliances, etc. Except one thing, the Great War only happened 25 years ago, if men in the Elder Scrolls are close enough to humans in the real world, then that isn't a sufficient enough time to fully recover the losses, we recouped them faster than the Dominion don't get me wrong, but I doubt humans have fully recovered since then.

I never said Alduin wasn't a big deal, a very big one actually, I was just pointing out the danger he poses(posed, if you complete the main questline) was at least slightly exaggerated.

Nothing I disagree with here, just that IMO it would be very beneficial if they spent less energy worshipping gods who do very little under normal circumstances and more energy pursuing knowledge and the like, the closest they have to intellectuals still living are mage scholars, who as a whole aren't so bad.