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7/23/2025, 7:41:03 PM
>>3810758
Weird schizo-babble.
>If you accept any notion of strategy
My notion of strategy is that you shouldn't let your entire elite be defenseless and surrounded by Thalmor soldiers whenever asked, your leaders shouldn't all be utterly compromised and openly collaborating gleefully with the enemy, your military shouldn't have Thalmor agents breathing down their necks every step to make sure they don't do anything the Thalmor don't want, and you shouldn't butcher your own army and allies and cripple yourself for the next 20 years when confronted with the choice.
Tell me how an Empire that is ruined, has no spy network like the Blades before, can't protect its main cities from common bandits, only lost territories and never won any in the last 200 years, has an entirely corrupt elite willingly collaborating, is ubiquitously spied on by Thalmors to the point making any sort of plan without their knowledge is impossible, has sent a clearly clueless and incapable of diplomacy general who almost caused mutinies because of his sheer arrogance, and has done nothing but capitulate for the last 25 years, is going to do anything?
The minute the Empire seriously tries to do anything, half its elite will be put to the sword, the plan will be found out, and the remaining elites will all either cower in fear or say "serves them right" about those who tried to resist and continue enjoying Thalmor money.
The Empire's only chance was collaborating with Ulfric, and they categorically refused. They'd rather destroy their own forces and allies than go against any Thalmor wishes. Genuinely all the Empire had to do was to let Skyrim become independent with an official oopsie, and make secret deals with Ulfric, that's all they needed to eventually win, but they relinquished that and chose to fight for the Thalmor, against humanity.
Weird schizo-babble.
>If you accept any notion of strategy
My notion of strategy is that you shouldn't let your entire elite be defenseless and surrounded by Thalmor soldiers whenever asked, your leaders shouldn't all be utterly compromised and openly collaborating gleefully with the enemy, your military shouldn't have Thalmor agents breathing down their necks every step to make sure they don't do anything the Thalmor don't want, and you shouldn't butcher your own army and allies and cripple yourself for the next 20 years when confronted with the choice.
Tell me how an Empire that is ruined, has no spy network like the Blades before, can't protect its main cities from common bandits, only lost territories and never won any in the last 200 years, has an entirely corrupt elite willingly collaborating, is ubiquitously spied on by Thalmors to the point making any sort of plan without their knowledge is impossible, has sent a clearly clueless and incapable of diplomacy general who almost caused mutinies because of his sheer arrogance, and has done nothing but capitulate for the last 25 years, is going to do anything?
The minute the Empire seriously tries to do anything, half its elite will be put to the sword, the plan will be found out, and the remaining elites will all either cower in fear or say "serves them right" about those who tried to resist and continue enjoying Thalmor money.
The Empire's only chance was collaborating with Ulfric, and they categorically refused. They'd rather destroy their own forces and allies than go against any Thalmor wishes. Genuinely all the Empire had to do was to let Skyrim become independent with an official oopsie, and make secret deals with Ulfric, that's all they needed to eventually win, but they relinquished that and chose to fight for the Thalmor, against humanity.
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