Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-3539474-20130910213054/@comment-14359537-20130919142714

U do know when I said the empire, I meant all the humans and orcs right -.-? Well, I guess I didn't make it clear enough. But anyways, I accept your challenge.

So this time, it is 1000 vs 1750.... so basically, for the AD to win, they need to get an insane 2:1 average kill death ratio, which includes the Altmer.

Alright, in that case, the Thalmor will need to seriously put everything to the war effort if they're going to win. I remember the Psyjiic order taking the Eye of Magnus; will the altmer possibly use it? If they are, the staff of magnus is in Dragonborn's hands, not the nords. Even if they were to use it, can we guarentee the eye's effect can be countered by the staff? say, they distributed the Eye's power to the invading troops. They could use the staff on each and every thalmor soldier, but at the same time, they risk giving the posession of the staff to the thalmor. Combined with the eye, the staff will be exponentially more devestating. But of course, that is just a theory.

Also, if AD will have to fight such an overwhelmingly powerful foe, I propose a new strategy: The destruction of each individual province, one by one. Say we send a thalmor force of 600 troops, to fight with the 300 in High Rock. Because 600 is twice the size of 300, humanity will theoretically have half the time to deal casualties to the enemy, compared to an enemy force the size of 300, because 600 will destroy them twice as quickly. in other words, if the thalmor are fast and the nords fail to make it in time, humanity lost 300, while thalmor lost only 150. 2:1 ratio :D, so now, its 850 thalmor vs 1450 humans.

Next, the imperials might decide to attack elsweyr with a formidable force of 1000 troops. there are only 400 defending thalmor, but since they're khajiit and bosmer, i think we can make them use guerilla warfare. This way, these 400 troops are worth 1200. the imperials would theoretically have five sixths the time to deal damage, if the battle is fought to the end, so to find the AD's remaining troops, we multiply five sixths by 1000, subtract 1200 by that, and divide the answer by three. The final answer is around 56, that means about 344 soldiers died killing 1000. 1:3 ratio :D. now its 506 Thalmor vs 500 nords :D

Of course, this is extremely theoretical, and will be successful realistically, but not to such an extent. However, this further shows how moving about is extremely advantageous: it is better to pick them off 1 by 1, rather than the whole army at once. To do this, as I said, manouevering is essential. A general sending all his troops to 1 huge, continuous invasion is a sign of incompetence. In contrast, many great strategic geniuses, like napoleon, mobilizes his troops in such a way, that his army suffered very little casualties for such huge campaigns, either by picking them off 1 by 1, or by feigning an attack, and then destroy the weakened main force.

And of course, this is if there was 1750 troops going against AD. I dont think they are that heavily outnumbered, right?