User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part 1)/@comment-11532953-20131210060926/@comment-11532953-20131212232027

You assume that because the Thalmor army was large, the elves must have given everything they had. This is baseless assumption. Other assumptions which I am becoming suspicious of are your claims that Elves reproduce slower than humans. Most elves will give birth to 2 decendents before they die. They also will give birth at very young ages. In human years, the typical elf will bear child at age 10. This is because elves mate young (20-40 years of age) and die old. You can imagine that because of this elven populations would be very high. Much higher than the human populations. Far from mating slower, a new elven generation would exist in nearly the exact cycle of a human generation. Simply add the fact that the older generation doesn't die off in the time a human would, and given that they are still able-bodied, humanity would always be outnumbered by the elves.

After I gave my argument as to why the elven invasion force was not the majority of the elven army, you seem to have simply dismissed it and repeated your assertion. I believe it to be completely false.

The other point of contention about who the Stormcloaks recruit is clearly a no-brainer. Galmer-stone fist tells you that the rebellion is looking for good soldiers, but he has a disagreement with Ulfric Stormcloak. Ulfric plans to recruit the masses, but Galmer wants only the best. Ulfric completely ignores Galmer's proposition and proceedes with his plan. In response, Galmer says: "I still think you should take them all out like you did with Dead King Torygg." Your grounds for believing that the Stormcloaks only want the best is based on this misinformation. I have already pointed out that the official canonical storyline has common farmers flocking to join the rebellion and Ulfric stormcloak accepting pretty much anyone who can weild something sharp.

As for Galmer being biased, my bad, it was inconceivable of me to think that the second in command of the Stormcloaks was neutral on the issue of the civil war.