User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-72.12.193.150-20140103035941/@comment-1822253-20140105003535

Zippertrain85, the Empire lost the war. If they actually won it like you claimed, they wouldn't have signed the Concordat. The fact was to win the war, they had to sacrifice an entire legion, and recall the rest of their legions, all of whom recieved heavy losses. They might have won, but their victory was phyrric at best. That, and we still don't know how the loss of dominion forces affected internally.

Then you also have the fact the war was fought entirely on Imperial ground, with almost all of Cyrodiil being devestated and who knows how many Imperial citizens who were massacred. We also don't know the extent of damages that Hammerfell suffered.

The Empire lost the war.