Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-206.74.175.104-20151018163917/@comment-9062114-20160223162912

Ottoman Hold wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote:

Ottoman Hold wrote:

The Stormcloaks don't have enough mages, multiple people say this themselves in game. For the most part, Nords rarely use magic in general. This puts The Dominion on top no matter what. In addition, although the Nords have shouts, not many are able to take the pilgrimage (aka not many shouters), and it takes years to train. Overall yeah, The Stormcloaks are heavily out gunned (figuratively speaking). Where did this idea the Stormcloaks have no soldiers or supplies come from? Where is any proof for this anywhere? It seems as if they control a huge portion of Skyrim now, and have more joining them everyday (confirmed by Legate Rikke)

That's easy. The Civil War happened. Supplies of a nation go to the military to fight in the war, and since it was a civil war fought in their own providence, more supplies are being used. Citizens of Skyrim killed each other for "independence", so they have less population than before (obviously), and less supplies. During a war, there's collateral damage. As you've been saying, game play does not equal lore, so a lot of farms and plantations would have been destroyed. In addition, I never said they had next to none. I said they didn't have as much as they would need (or at least hinted that). So that, my friend, is why I said what I said. I'm sorry, this doesn't hold up to historical analyzation. First of all, the Empire's soldiers are ones usually fighting for the Imperial Legion, sure some Nords are, but it's not as if they're the only ones fighting the Civil War. Hell, Tullius the head of the Imperial Legion is from Cyrodiil, and that's in lore.

Second of all, Hammerfell was in the midst of a horrible Civil War and still held their ground in their own wars (I know, Hammerfell is different than Skyrim, I get it, but still). We don't know how destructive the Civil War was, or what supplies the Stormcloaks will or will not have, you assumed that off of completely nothing.

In a nutshell, we ultimately don't know what the aftermath of the war is, so assuming it must be bad is baseless, as baseless as assuming they were barely effected by it ;P