Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-24261859-20140401015808

Smoking.Chimp wrote: "all available forces.", eh? I think that would refer to the forces deployed across the entire campaign.

However, I wonder if Titus mede II could have guessed that? What do we see when we look back across the Napoleonic wars and two world wars? It would seem all too obvious that, when tyrants seek to expand their borders, they commit everything they have and often overlook temporal issues like seasonal changes. So, I wonder, could Titus Mede II have drawn on his Emperor's education to look back and see, though the mirror of history, that the Aldmeri Dominion had committed all of its forces? I don't know how much he knew about the Dominion's grand strategy. I imagine that he only thought "Alright, they've got X number of troops here, so how can I use what I have to beat that many?"

From what I hear, the forces under Lady Arannelya were still in Hammerfell while Lord Naarfin did battle in the Imperial city, and Mede's scouts would surely have made him aware of this. I don't think that it was the entire Dominion army that he fought, and he probably knew at least this much.