User blog comment:Sgt. S.S./Why I support the Empire/@comment-2172565-20120321182901/@comment-2172565-20120322033613

I think people are way over estimating the power of the Thalmor. honestly. its one Province which forcibly took the Wood Elf homeland as well. Its Altmer and some Wood Elves versus the WORLD... Seriously the only reason they managed to conquer the Imperial city was a combo of a pre-emptive attack and the Leadership on the Empire side made crippling mistakes. They work by using Espionage which is apparently rampant in every province but is the least concentrated in Skyrim which has just recently started talking to Skyrim. Yes, they got fairly far in the land until the good ole Dragonborn kills many of them and some very high ranking ones in the area. The Thalmor can't stand up to even the Empire without Skyrim in a straight fight.

If the High King had decided to decline Ulfric's offer then the only recourse left to Ulfric would be open warfare with a country with a leader that people loved. Yes the king would be a coward but he would not have given Ulfric the fuel to start is rebellion.

The funny thing about the Empire in game is that you don't see that many Nord's in their army despite most Nords not supporting that.

Both sides have their pros and cons (seriously they both have serious issues and serious good things too) but as a whole the false empire is simply gonna buckle. Hell the EMPIRE if it can be called that is being forced to give up their religion by one nation! WTF seriously I'd tell them to screw off too if someone was like nope no religion for you because your nation is a pussy.

You guys are assuming far to much about the Stormcloaks whereas Empires rise and fall in real life exactly like the Empire is doing now. Rome anyone? beaten in by a Germanic Horde.