User blog comment:Ulfric nord/the stormcloak rebilion/@comment-4113369-20130322143609/@comment-80.216.216.52-20130323192829

They weren't on the brink of collapse, they had wiped out all Dominion forces in Cyrodiil.

Bunkering down and preparing defences would have been the thing to do after that, it wouldn't have been risking anything.

But instead they went " we won our first major victory in a while oh well let's accept the most unfavorable of terms for no apparent or logical reasons."