User blog comment:AveryWood/Reasons Why Going With the Empire is Better/@comment-1967485-20120818180540/@comment-5423369-20120820081022

"one fight on like a bonehead and get obliterated" well they had four provinces to back them up if they were pushed to the brink or already losing all I would understand but they had a certain advantage they didn't use they could have used some of these forces to hold the border to garrison troops from other provinces in Cyrodill to invade and actually conquer some land you know like how a Empire is supposed to act in a war but I guess I can let this lack of offensive tactics slide they haven't gone into a conquest for over two eras and also always on the defensive so right of the bat they are already inexperienced with conquesting.

"or two negotiate peace have Talos worship banned short-term" well maybe the Empire should have learned or at least basically know why certain provinces joined the Empire in the first place the whole reason Skyrim joined was because of Tiber Septim ( Talos) they only had one thing they had to maintain to ensure that Skyrim is still in the Empire and they disregarded it.

"care of the Dominion once you've regrouped" well its been thirty years and they lost more troops than producing more I mean they lost a province and had a civil war causing loss in both sides because they didn't acknowledge the concerns for other provinces this wasn't a good idea for the Empire at all because they didn't analyze the consequences at all.

"once you've regrouped and then make Talos worship legal once again because now there's no one to enforce the arbitrary law" I didn't quite get this because if your saying that they can allow people to worship Talos (Tiber Septim) because there is no emperor then they wont allow it in fact I think they would force it even more I mean now they have to get on the good side of the Thalmor to ensure they wont attack untill they get an Emperor and the Thalmor would just see this as an opportunity and do that Titus Mede the first did to defeat the Empire if this was a war of attrition then it isn't hard to guess who is wining regardless of the occupation of Skyrim.