Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-17114085-20130921152603

Let me put a few more holes into your High Rock plan.

If the Bretons see the invasion force in the Sea they can use their capatults and other siege equipment to smash the AD's boats to peaces, this could be avoided if altmer were aboard and used magic for protection. But since there isn't then the invasion force is screwed.

High Rock has a High King, if it is invaded then all the kingdoms would ban together to defeat the enemy. Also they can hire the orcs and other mercenaries if they need the man power or as they are really good diplomats they can probably just convince the orcs/mercenaries to help them.

Bretons as we all know are expert mages, their best school is conjuration. This means that basicly every breton can summon a minion, this doubles the defending force.

Also the breton mages can some very usefull spells: invisibility, muffle,-making it harder to see them in the forest when they go tracking the rest of the invasion force; detect life-(boom) gone is the days of not finding khajiit/bosmer in the forest because with this spell they are found; Many conjuration spells-like i said this is their best school, they can double their army(for a short time, but they can just cast the spell again later); various mage armor spells(not counting their natural ability dragonskin)-armor with no stamina consequence; Various illusion spells- usefull to trick the invasion force into fighting each other. healing spells-to heal.

Obviously not all bretons are mages, but as most of their preset skills are magic skills then i can asume that atleast 1/3 of the population are trained mages.

Sorry to pop your bobble, but with spells like detect life your guerrila stategy is gone, can't hide from that. So looks like the Bretons won't really need help from Hammerfell/Skyrim/Cyrodiil as  they can take care of themselfs. Help would only be needed if a much much bigger invasion was to happen, though with that many troops guerrila warefare goes out the window.