Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25343239-20150319182007/@comment-32014963-20180412183808

People established based on their perspective and I agree that the odds doesn't look good against the Stormcloaks.

The problem is two guys are turning extremely incomplete pieces of inforrmation with their own heavily opinionated assumptions to turn the tide in extreme favor of the Empire.

1st: Economy talk. No evidence. What is the Empire's state of economy, their military spending, their primary sources of income, how well their primary sources of income are coming... none of it is actually known. They assumed using a few pieces of insubstantial information to imply that the Empire is doing exceedingly well.

2nd: Military might, while there are some sources stating the Empire has 18 Legions in total and each one is 5000 in combat strength (90,000 regulars). There are no hint that by TESV's time, there are still 18 legions. Nor there is a clear indication of the exact combat strength of the Empire at this point, how much of it is in Skyrim, how much is the Stormcloaks' combat strength. Most importantly, there is no true hint about the actual combat strength of the Aldmeri Dominion except it is capable of mustering a force strong enough to make Empire take it seriously based according to what the NPC in Skyrim said.... but that is not an indication of their exact combat strength.

High or Low Birthrates, bigger land space = vastly superior numbers = even more vastly superior military might? No, just no. You don't know what you're talking about.

There is something called Population Density, bigger land space doesn't mean bigger population. That is a total bull that any side can absolutely be greater nor it is any indication of the army quality. Plus  Empire had a war ravaged its lands for 4 years (9 for Hammerfell)

1 Advantage of fighting a war in own lands: Home ground advantages until enemy got used fighting in the terrain

2. Disadvantages: Civilian casualties chances are exponentially greater because common sense. Take the massacre at the Imperial City for example. That is eating into the country's ability to replace the lost soldiers.

That is something the Aldmeri Dominion didn't suffer. Meaning the social structure of Cyrodiil was damaged. There is no information how much they've recovered over the span of 25 years.

Talks about military discipline and how stormcloaks are civilians playing soldiers got no discipline nor equipment? Then proceed to say that because you are more disciplined than the ill-disciplined and equipped inferior army, the said Empire army who is stronger than an army they implied to be one step above an untrained and unarmed rabble must be able or have extremely good chance to beat other army (AD) whose actual conditions you know next to nothing as THERE ARE NOTHING to tell us about its present state in the lore during and shortly after TESV Events.

Then they went on with all that bull but don't allow other people to play the same bull game.

Oh there's also that because 1 Mage from 1 Magic Organization who was more interested to obtain a magic object as a means to rise in his social standing within a Mage rank, both Magic Organizations must absolutely be able to contend with the Aldmeri Dominion battlemages who was consists of the Altmer race who are naturally more gifted than the Imperials and each have a longer lifespan to advance the said craft which requires a lot of commitment...

Yeah... very unfair to the Altmer race who has 2 key advantages in studying magic. Totally ignoring Altmers are more gifted than Imperials plus the Aldmeri Dominion has been using magic artifacts to give themselves unfair advantage since the Great War, what makes you think the Altmer won't do it in preparation for the next one? Or who is actually doing better in this aspect by TESV time? Nope, no evidence to state who has magical advantage.

Alliance, the conditions, low birthrates etc... they are issues people simply do not have enough evidence to make a conclusive guess that is over 50% accuracy.