Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20161103125247/@comment-30317136-20161108202632

Terawolf119 wrote: Dont play dumb with me you know what I meant, better overall, and we already know where you stand, so either pick a side, watch, or leave. I already state my side very clearly. The neutral one and it is not just any neutral. It is the neutral side that will win no matter who comes out on top of the civil war. I don't get why you people are so easily triggered and become inferior slaves to your useless emotions.

Since you are blind to the possibility of such a side just like a certain Blades' leader of the Septim Empire wannabe... I will talk about what you can see.

Stormcloaks vs Imperials who is better as in having a better chance in the coming second Great War against the Aldmeri Dominion

Stormcloaks Goals

1.Independence from Empire

2.Religious Freedom

3. Immediate action (war) against the Aldmeri Dominion.

4. Make Skyrim strong presumably stronger than the Empire.

Options and assets of Stormcloaks.

1. A weakened Skyrim's resources.

2. Possible alliance with Hammerfell.

3. Possible alliance of convenience with Empire.

Requirements to fulfil the Stormcloaks' goals.

Defeating the Imperial Legion in Skyirm.

A navy to reach Summerset Isles

Time to recover from Civil War and to build a navy to launch a naval assault.

Empire's Goals

1. Kill Ulfric and regain control of Skyrim

2. Unify and consolidate what the empire had left from the Great War.

3. Defeat the Aldmeri Dominion-Thalmor

4. Protect the Mede Dynasty's interest within the Empire.

Requirements to fulfil Imperial's Goals.

1. Destruction of the Aldmeri Dominion.

2. Destruction of the Stormcloaks.

Empire's assets and options.

1. A weakened Skyrim, Cyrodiil and High Rock's resources.

2. Possible alliance with Hammerfell.

In the end the Empire's side seems much more favorable as there are less chances of having mistakes as less steps are needed to acquire the resources of Skyrim, High Rock, Cyrodiil and Hammerfell than Stormcloaks' path.

Assuming both the Empire and Stormcloaks knows what they're doing, Empire winning will result in a larger more unified coalition against the Aldmeri Dominion.

The Dominion nearly wiped the Empire out the last time when they were not prepared. Here's the chance for the Mede Dynasty to prove itself now that it has more than 25 years to prepare.

The Stormcloaks thinks they can do better than the Empire, if they can beat the Empire without the Last Dragonborn's interference, they earn their right to challenge the Aldmeri Dominion. If they can't, meaning the reports Galmar gave to Ulfric that the Stormcloaks were getting slaughtered left and right by the Empire during the game continues until they lose, Ulfric and his little army merely proved to be a good training dummy for the Empire. Likewise if the Empire cannot beat Ulfric with what they had in Skyrim, they just prove that they're going to be a training dummy for Stormcloaks and possibly the Aldmeri Dominion in the upcoming Great War.