Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-3573184-20130817190349

80.216.214.210 wrote: But you are saying that the AD could have easily and effortlessly taken Cyrodiil right then and there which was the point of the whole war in the first place.

For them to go "yeah, no we're not doing that and instead we're giving the empire a breather to gather it's strength" I mean wow they'd have to be stupid to an unknown degree even for elves to do that.

They did fail, since they did set out to hold Hammerfell and in the end couldn't thereby showing all of Tamriel what a bunch of weaklings they truly are. .........No im not, seriously, where did you get such a crazed idea?

All I have said is that, in a drawn out war of attrition, the AD would have won becuase they are better supplied, whereas most of Cyordiil was destroyed, and The Empire would have to spend most of its remaning, and few, troops on rebuilding in order to even begin to make cyrodiil able to hold out against the AD. Whereas the AD could use all of its troops, which was equally as few as the Empires, to attack the Empire, since they wouldn't have to divert thier troops onto rebuilding projects.

Except they stopped caring about Hammerfell half way through the war, and turned thier attention to The Empire. You seem to think that changing goals mid-game is impossible.