User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-5190667-20120618185101

The ad knew that they wanted to take over tamriel since the oblivion crisis. They had so much time to plan their attack, and time to get spies and sympitizers into other provences. They took elswyer with nearly no fight. Valenwood also put up little struggle. Cyrodiil was weak and the elves just walked in and took over the place. the ad cant win in a fair fight, as proved in the latter parts of the great war. One man took out an entire base in skyrim, for talos's sake! If skyrim and the empire get the support of hammerfell, the ad cant win.