User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why The Imperials Are Wrong/@comment-3025184-20130808145935/@comment-3025184-20130809223800

First and foremost, I just want to say I am really enjoying this debate. It's a lot of fun :D Ok let's talk actual warfare and not politics. The Vietnam war analogy is not that good. The Americans were crushing the Vietnamese in every battle. I believe the ratio was 10 dead Vietnamese for every American. The skyforge does make superb steel, but that is one smith and one forge. It could not produce the thousands of swords, axes, spears, and other weapons necessary to epuip and army. I would imagine only officers and generals would have Skyforge steel. Sure, the elves took a big hit after the first Great War but so did the Nords. Not to mention they had a civil war. Most of Skyrim's farms would have been burned from battles and Ulfric would have lost many of his best troops. Not to mention that Skyrim isn't exactly a fertile land, so Nordic armies could never be to large due to there being a small amount of supplies. The Dominion has the armies of Elsweyr and Valenwood on their side. Not to mention the Thalmor are much better mages than Nords could ever be.