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[Azkanan]

When I did the civil war quests (for the Imperial Legion, naturally) I'd already done the main quest so every battle was basically "Strormcloaks, Odahviing. Odahviing, dinner." and laughing like a maniac as they got torn to pieces and burnt to crisps by my pet dragon.

Damn. I've always done it the other way around, for some reason.

Damn.

[PTTG??]

I have to give them credit for one thing; the Stormcloaks are the obvious choice- for one thing, they didn't arbitrarily decide to behead you- and they seem to have right on their side. But the rational choice, to achieve the goals of everyone involved, is to side with the empire. Otherwise both sides will be too weak to fight the Nazi Elves.

[Azkanan]

I went with Imperial on my first playthrough, just because I preferred Solitude's Playerhouse.

Finicky bastard, aren't I?

[Putnam]

I have to give them credit for one thing; the Stormcloaks are the obvious choice- for one thing, they didn't arbitrarily decide to behead you- and they seem to have right on their side. But the rational choice, to achieve the goals of everyone involved, is to side with the empire. Otherwise both sides will be too weak to fight the Nazi Elves.

Uh oh.

Let me vouch for the empire by saying that the empire aren't a bunch of racist bastards and that the arbitrary beheading was the decision of a single superior >_>

[Karnewarrior]

That's why I declared singular independence and slaughtered both armies.

I wish there was a mod that would let you actually do that. Singlehandedly become a third party and smash two armies.

[Leatra]

That's why I declared singular independence and slaughtered both armies.

I wish there was a mod that would let you actually do that. Singlehandedly become a third party and smash two armies.

Or... you know, bring a diplomatic solution to both parties maybe?

It was a boring day...

[Azkanan]

That's why I declared singular independence and slaughtered both armies.

I wish there was a mod that would let you actually do that. Singlehandedly become a third party and smash two armies.

Mount and Blade.

[Rex_Nex]

I wanted to see more Khajiit. I knew Skyrim was in short supply of them, so I'm playing as one! Only issue is that my fur is so dark that it is hard to distinguish anything on my char... she looked cute in the char selection, but somehow the lighting makes it more-then-hard to see anything.

Also, am I the only one that will forgo helmets until the really good looking ones show up? I can't say I feel it is a good trade to hide my char's head under an ugly helmet for 10 armor...

[PTTG??]

I keep meaning to find a mod that ups the difficulty and makes everyone mortal, then go about saving Skyrim from the Dragons by killing everything first.

[scriver]

I have to give them credit for one thing; the Stormcloaks are the obvious choice- for one thing, they didn't arbitrarily decide to behead you- and they seem to have right on their side. But the rational choice, to achieve the goals of everyone involved, is to side with the empire. Otherwise both sides will be too weak to fight the Nazi Elves.

Besides what Putnam said, there's also the thing where

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Mr Stormcloak is actually a Nazelf plant and cares more about being King than Skyrim's freedom.

[Micro102]

I'm hoping for an ending option to challenge Ulfric to the right to the throne, just like he challenged the old king (but not for the throne).

[MasterFancyPants]

Breaking into the High Elf embassy really changed my mind about the Stormcloaks.

[Rakonas]

I have to give them credit for one thing; the Stormcloaks are the obvious choice- for one thing, they didn't arbitrarily decide to behead you- and they seem to have right on their side. But the rational choice, to achieve the goals of everyone involved, is to side with the empire. Otherwise both sides will be too weak to fight the Nazi Elves.

Besides what Putnam said, there's also the thing where

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Mr Stormcloak is actually a Nazelf plant and cares more about being King than Skyrim's freedom.

The actual thing in game isn't really indicative of very much of what his future decisions will be, though. After all

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The Thalmor want the civil war to continue, and very much do not want to see Ulfric actually win. If Ulfric is High King, then at the very least it can be guaranteed that he will not allow the Thalmor to outlaw the worship of Talos, the stamping out of which is essential to the Thalmor's overarching goals.

[Tarran]

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I'd doubt they'd want the Imperials to actually win, either, since the Imperials are their enemies. I'd imagine that the Imperials having Skyrim would be even worse than having Ulfric winning it since there's no chance of Skyrim not joining in for the possible future war, and the Dominion couldn't declare war on Skyrim without declaring war on the entire Empire.

[MorleyDev]

Then you have the problem of Thalmor's end goal. You know, what with the wiping out all human life (Nords, Imperials, Bretons...) because they believe that will let them unmake reality and become gods...

Independent Skyrim would be most likely crushed and every living man, woman and child slowly put to the sword, at least when (not if, both sides are just using it to rest and rebuild their forces) the war started again in the next Elder Scrolls the Empire would be able to reinstate Talos worship and have Skyrim at hand. Hence why the Stormcloaks are a terrible choice.