User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140101234739/@comment-6044976-20140103072953

I have no idea where Zipper gets this idea that the Thalmor " lost everything in that war" I just read The Great War book (in-game) And there is no evidence to support Zippertrains theory. All it says (which by the way is its exact words) is "In the end, the main Aldmeri army in Cyrodiil was completely destroyed." This sentence is found in the chapter about the Battle of the Red Ring, which in case anyone has forgotten is about the battle in which Titus Mede II along with Nord and Redguard armies reclaimed the Imperial City from the Aldmeri Dominion. So when the book says "the main Aldmeri army in Cyrodiil was completely destroyed" It means that Aldmeri forces which were garrisoned in the Imperial City aka "the main army in Cyrodiil" was completely destroyed. This however does not to apply the Aldmeri forces that were involved in the invasion of Hammerfell, it also does not apply to all the Aldmeri forces that were not in the Imperial City. Thus, plenty of Aldmeri soldiers would have retreated and have been able to regroup. Furthermore the initial objective of the invasion was to take Hammerfell, the armies in Cyrodiil were only intended to distract the Imperial Legions and as a result the main army in Cyrodiil may not have even made up the majority of Aldmeri forces. So to say that the Dominion has nothing left would be outright wrong.

Btw the book uses the term Aldmeri forces, not Altmer forces, which provides evidence towards other races in the Aldmeri Dominion being involved in the war and goes against Zippertrains claim " It's extremely unlikely that the Dominion have any Khajiit or Bosmer fighting for them."

And just as a reminder: I just read (not for the first time) The Great War book (in-game) before typing this comment.