Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20161103125247/@comment-30317136-20161109134958

Sports72Xtrm wrote: You keep saying that the empire was "slaughtering" the stormcloaks, but before player engagement the only battle we believed them to be engaged in was an ambush against presumably after ulfric killed torygg, before ulfric rallied his allies and drew his battleplans. Its not the prepared stormcloaks tullius was facing so the context is important. Ulfrics combat ability has been proven as he is considered a legend in skyrim, he has defeated armies before. AFter the player joins his side he can even defeat the imperial legions, that proves under the roght conditions anyone can beat the empire. So the stormvloaks can be stronger than the legion if the player chooses. The stormcl9aks are just as strong as the legion. Imo they are able to be stronger in fighting the Thalmor since they dont legitimize their ops and influence and seek to expel them from skyrim. You must have missed this conversation with Tullius, then the conversation between Galmar and Ulfric. Before you join either side. This means no intervention from the Dragonborn as with our help one side gain the strength equivalent to at least 1 million elite special ops level of soldiers.

Ulfric telling Galmar to calm down, Galmar replying "Our men were getting slaughtered out there! Damn Imperials!"

Ulfric's men were getting slaughtered and he thinks that by winning sympathy of the people, gaining more people for the Stormcloaks can turn this war around. It is one thing to gain more soldiers but another to rely solely on numbers to defeat your enemy.