Nope found him ON deviant art. Just wanted to showchase some nice Necron art- stuff Its not rare but theres long inbetween the Really great. and the Superemly good.
Most if not all of what you have said is true. Though it's convenient that, while you are suggesting that the Nords, and other hostile factions, would make things difficult for Aldmeri Dominion offensively, you neglect to mention what would happen if the war eventually made it to Summerset Isle. You can't win a war entirely on the defensive. You'll run out of morale and supplies before the enemy runs out of soldiers. Especially against magic users. If you keep that up, pitched batttles and guerilla tactics wouldn't matter. The Thalmor would burn your crops, poison your water supplies, kill your cattle, destroy your forges. That's how you win wars. Note that I said wars, not battles. Whilst, yeah, the cost in body count might've been high for the Aldmeri Dominion, they lost nothing in terms of infrastructure, AKA what you need to wage a war. Just because you can throw around fireballs and you're using swords and bows rather than missiles and boolets doesn't mean logistics isn't important. And even if you overcome that, you'd need to invade Summerset itself to really win, and no one has done that since... when? I don't even know. Even the Oblivion Crisis didn't hurt the Altmer as much as it did most others, however. Take that however you wish.
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While yes to truly defeat the Thalmor their enemies would have to invade, but I don't find your presumption that you can't win a war defensively to not be accurate. Taking directly from historical northern barbarians, the Rus, the Gemans, the Scots, each one was outmatched logistically and as a disciplined army, but each one defeated a larger Empire through constant resistance. The Rus show how that it would work in favor of the locals(or at least less destructively) if the Altmer burn the crops and poison the water supply (in fact if the Nords lose a city they would almost certainly do that themselves to deny the elves those resources) because the Nords are the ones that know the land. They know the game trails, where the springs are, what flora is edible and what isn't, while the Altmer would have to import all their supplies through hostile territory. And though the Thalmor have better equipment and intact infrastructure, they still favor light armor, and at range an arrow through the throat is going to work about as well as a fireball, and seeing that the Thalmor are on the offensive they'll have to be the ones trying to route out the Nords from mountain strongholds and hideouts, which means plenty of opportunities for the Nords to ambush them from the highground. In a defensive war, it's not about defeating your foe entirely, it's about weakening them to the point that they can no longer maintain the invasion, their supply lines, and hold their own territory, so it in fact favors the defenders. Now a war on the Altmer would be difficult mostly due to two factors, they are an island nation so it requires both a sizable fleet along with the army, and since the Altmer are an island race they presumably have a formidable navy, so the likelihood they could stop an invasion before it touches their soil is quite high. Additionally, the fact that they have a high percentage of magic users, which is even more concerning due to the need for an overseas invasion because of magical fireballs and they can probally do some sort of storm summoning to defend their Island. The only way for the first stage of the invasion to succeed then would be to have magic users of your own, so chances are the Nords can't do this themselves unless they start valuing the College.
You forgot Finland D: they held out against the Russians, and one of my favorite men in history, The White Death, whose name I can't spell
What's his specialty you may ask? Dual wield Axe and Fire. That's right, this heavy armored bastard is a mage warsorcerer.
