Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20161103125247/@comment-993964-20161109054312

YinyangElementofduality wrote: This is really going nowhere...

You guys want to compare who is better as in who can do better managing Skyrim against the Aldmeri Dominion.

Even though I will never choose either side to join in heart.

I use statistics to give an unbiased judgement already.

1.An Unprepared Empire lost to the Aldmeri Dominion during the Great War. Unprepared Empire includes, High Rock, Hammerfell, SKYRIM and Cyrodiil.

Prepared Empire wanted to keep what they have; High Rock, Skyrim and Cyrodiil to fight the Aldmeri Dominion.

In terms of size alone, the Empire is still much larger than the Aldmeri Dominion. It is basically a 2.5X bigger version of the present Aldmeri Dominion and has growth potential to greatly over take Aldmeri Dominion. A simple gauge shows in 3 generations or 60 years after the Great War.

With that, Empire has size, numbers and resources advantage. Empire is better than Stormcloaks.

2.Next, the most important thing in war. Tactics. Ulfric and Galmar has proven to be inferior tactician to Tullius due to Ulfric losing and getting caught by an ambush setup by Tullius. Without Dragonborn's interference, Tullius was not known to be able to replicate the same feat again. Hence it is not a huge gap, the Empire having a General of such capabilities puts its tactics at an advantage.

With that, Empire has slight tactical advantage over Stormcloaks. Empire is better than Stormcloaks.

Two primary attributes, the Empire beats the Stormcloaks hands down. 1. Except the Empire is still unprepared even if they do win the Skyrim Civil War. They were roped into signing a treaty where they Thalmor get to incriminate the Empire's citizens and use it as an excuse to sabotage the Empire at their leisure. The White Gold Concordant allows the Thalmor to infiltrate imperial lands, spread propaganda and turn the an already populace against an already unpopular empire, recruit other assets, and just let the Empire spend its resources on quelling unrest and other Thalmor agents. If the Empire couldn't get its shit together before the Civil War, it's not going to get it's shit together after having exhausting it's resources on an uprising and with the Thalmor having more of an excuse to breathe down their necks.

2. One cherry picked battle where fortune just happens to shine on the Empire isn't a formula to determine the fate of a war. The Great War was filled with battles that were won and lost and were the head generals had close brushes with death. But war has many variables. To Tullius credit, he does seem like a problem fixer, a 4 star general badass. But so is Ulfric. Ulfric took out the Forsworn uprising with just his militia. I say that also earned him his stars and stripes. Difference is, Ulfric is a man in his prime, a warrior with the Thuum, and a 4 star general badass and doesn't stop fighting until the blood in heart stops pumping. Tullius is an old man, maybe a strategist, but an old man all the same, that despaired when things looked bleak. Saying the Empire is better military seems like it's skewed projection of your bias.