Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-80.216.214.210-20130817015615

SajuukKhar wrote: 80.216.214.210 wrote: Yes, winning was out of the equation but the thing is stalemate was not.

They could have fortified Cyrodiil and simply waited for the Dominion to come knocking for peace. Except Cyrodiil was in shambles, pretty much every city except Bruma and Cheydenhall was sacked, and supply lines and crops were destroyed. There was simply nothing to fortify, and the AD had none of those problems.

Furthermore, you cant win against the AD simply by sitting and waiting. The AD is a force who, most likely, wants to purge mankind from existance itself. They are like Hitler but worse, and you cant win against Hitler simply by hunkering down and waiting for him to attack you or give up. You have to be able to push them back to thier capitol and burn THEM out of existance, before they do it to you, and Mede knew he couldnt do it.

Just trying to "forify and wait" is one of the most god-awful and foolish stratiges anyone could ever do against the AD, and given the Empire's lack of supplies, and the AD's abundance of them, doing that would have easily resulted in a loss for the Empire. It would be a war of attrition that the AD would win because they had the ability to supply thier troops, and The Empire didn't. And the AD's military forces were in no better condition.

The empire couldn't win, but it didn't have to accept the surrender terms of the WGC.

Fortify and wait would only be temporary 'til they have gathered their strength and can request terms that aren't basically asking for unconditional surrender like the concord.

The Dominion did not have an abundance of resources as evidenced by the fact that they DID NOT press on, if they if supposed that they could win they would have kept on with the war.

The fact that the Aldmeri Dominion accepted peace proves irrefutebly that they were in no better condion than the empire and could not have pressed on and taken Cyrodiil.

And the spetecular failure in Hammerfell only serves tho cement that fact.