Ok, still waiting for help disabling Papyrus Logging, and also apparently the WEAPONS are fine now, but the ARMOR stats are borked. Fucking hell. IA armors are now useless because less then half as protective as equivalent vanilla stuff. Fuck.
Ulfric was deemed as a potential Thamor asset and had gone under the equivalent of brainwashing. Not the best guy to lead an army against them. Plus, his anger at the elves could cost him the ability to utilize any dissenters from Valenwood. It may once have been a strong powerbase for the Thalmor at the beginning, but their purges would undoubtedly cause dissent. Empire would use that.
He was deemed that in a Thalmor report...a report by people with LEGENDARY skills in misdirection and subterfuge, it wouldn't be surprising if they predicted that would be seen and assumed to be true. And said report says nothing about brainwashing, only that they essentially lied to him to make him start the war.
Oh, and the High-King only went along with the Treaty because if he didn't, Skyrim'd be fucked.
So Skyrim is fucked.
Empire side, however, brings them back to the EMPIRE. So if the NAZI ELVES do attack, they're not a third party who will be wrecked by both sides.
So yeah! Empire is intelligent, has decent power, can have dragons on their side, and aren't there for power.
Empire side brings them back to a broken and outdated "Empire" that is still reeling from the LAST time it went up against the elves. And for what happens when third parties resist the Thalmor, see HAMMERFELL BITCHES
Empire WAS intelligent, HAD decent power and are on their last legs regardless of what you do in game. Oh and of course they are being watched every second from within by the elves. They are DOOMED.
nazi elves
they ain't that
this is word of god here, Michael Kirkbride created the Thalmor, they ain't nazis
He can call them whatever he wants, they walk like Nazis, they talk like Nazis, they exterminate anyone they don't see as part of their superior lineage like Nazis.
I call em Nazis.