Dragonborn: I've been in Solstheim for only TWO weeks, and already you broke out into war?

This is probably the closest we will get to the actual 2nd great war, since in ES6 they will probably skip it entirely. Really enjoyed the video!

I don't agree with this prediction. Considering the Aldmeri Dominion was able to surprise an unprepared Empire in the first Great War and only won at best a minor victory after extensive planning and resources were invested into the war. Just shows how strong the Empire still is. And considering most Imperial citizens want revenge against the elves, I'd say it's not unlikely that another war is being planned by the Empire to regain the right to worship Talos and more. Now if the Aldmeri Dominion only won a minor victory against the Empire with full surprise and planning, Imagine how it would go if the Empire prepared for a war against the Aldmeri Dominion? Now of course it's easier to defend. But the Empire never really defended well against the Aldmeri Dominion as they bypassed most of the defences watching Valenwood. And in open battle, they either drew or won. None of the Aldmeri Dominions advantages, particularly in Cyrodil were held for very long. So in terms of better ability to fight and win, I'd hand it to the Empire. Only reason they didn't continue, was because their resources were stretched thin from pushing the elves back, and decided to cut their losses and keep as much as possible in order to fight the elves again in the future when they are better prepared. Now you have to ask about the inter-war period. Which race has the ability to recover faster? The answer is the Empire hands down. Humans reproduce far faster than elves. And whilst they might not be as proficient as elves as elves can spend a lifetime of a human learning to fight, within that lifetime several generations of humans would have been born, died and been trained to an acceptable level. I highly doubt 1 elven warrior could take on 10 legionaries at once. You also have to consider how costly the war was for each side. For the Empire it resulted in a loss of manpower, resources and the sacking of the Imperial city, manpower which can of course be replaced quickly as well as the replacement of resources and the rebuilding of the Imperial city due to more manpower. For the Aldmeri Dominion the war cost manpower and resources. Manpower for the elves is far more precious compared to that of the Empire, and without extensive manpower, you can't dedicate many to replenishing resources. Inevitably unless the elves nuke Cyrodil or something, in a protracted war the Empire will win.

I dont think that the armies would be evently matched, as humans breed faster and their armies are bigger

honestly if Titus Mede II just has a high speech skill he can persuade the Dominion to surrender and there won't be bloodshed

16:08 If I was an Aldmiri commander I would be extremely worried about my supply lines. In this scenario Black Marsh is a shaky ally at best and even then getting supplies in adequate amounts through all those swamps wouldn't be an easy task

Elven trousers shall be shat once the Empire brings its artillery to bear

I would say that it takes way longer to capture a walled city like Cheydinhal than just 2-3 days. Maybe if the walls are breached fast enough but then still a full attack from Aldmeri forces with still just defending city-guards would cost too much lossees on the Aldmeri side that it would be worth it. If the Aldmeris still would have done it, It would make that army crippled + having to garrison a fortified city would really stretch out a already crippled army.

The Schlieffen Plan was from WW1, not WW2. You probably got confused because those major fortifications on the French border were indeed due to a previous war. It's just that was the Franco-Prussian war if I remember right.

Also massively depends on the Argonians willingness to help the Dominion as well as the fact that if they do, the Empire would gain the the support of at least some of Morrowind as Morrowind lost territory to the Argonians when they invaded.

I think The Aldmeri Dominion has a better Naval Force but The Empire has a better Army. When it comes to Magical Power the Aldmeri Dominion has the upper hand but The Empire may have better footsoldiers with the likes of The Orsimer being in The Legion as mentioned in Skyrim.

You gotta remember that in the infernal city (canon btw) attrebus mentioned that it would take about 20 days to get from rimmen to morrowind. Tamriel is way bigger than gameplay

Also i belive that since the Empire is largely inspired/based upon the Roman empire, looking at roman military tactics would be useful in videos like this. :)

Correction: the schlieffen plan was the WW1 plan for an invasion through belgium. In ww2, they invaded not only belgium, but luxembourg and the netherlands as well. Unlike ww1, The french had indeed fortified their northern border in ww2 so they broke the less fortified ardennes forest.

If we get to fight in the Second Great War in Elder Scrolls 6, I hope we get to see (and possibly get to be a part of) a Shield Wall.

I have to think it's unlikely that the Aldmeri would deploy so much of their forces to launch an attack from that direction. They would have their own borders at risk of an Imperial invasion as soon as the Imperial generals understand the situation. Imagine the logistics too, the invading force would have practically no supply route until the way has been cleared through lower Nibenay. A smaller force could use this approach to cut the Yellow road and potentially hold three rivers between Leyawiin and reinforcements, which would be useful if the Aldmeri attacked in the south.

Corrections so far: - Distances: Using TES Arena we actually have a more accurate measure of time. One should take about 2x my current distances. [Correction by Razak Loremaster] - First Great War: At the end of Red Ring the main Aldmeri army in Cyrodiil was defeated. We dont have records of what happened to the rest, probably destroyed with the main army, but we dont have sources saying this [Correction by Grandmaster Jauffre] - The Imperial army could burn just the bridges and then the speculation could no longer be true, since that would significantly slow an Aldmeri advance. This speculation is completely dependent on a swift attack [Correction by Pietro Griffindio]

In the first 'great war' The Elves relied on a Daedric artifact, their whole campaign depended on it, So I think that if they tried for a second time, they would probably have some other magical item to help them in their campaign.However, going through Argonian territory is also very plausible.

Hey guys! Let me know what you think of the new animations of the troops! I personally like the new touch to map videos. Should I remake my old map videos to be more like this one?

I personally subscribe to the North American size for Tamrael. The game of Dagger fall took place in an area the size of the U.K. All of High Rock wasn't used or explored in the game.

The empire has a dragonborn again. Enough said.

I think The Empire might try to hire The Argonian's or The Redguard's as Mercanaries but it would depend if Skyrim is independant. If Skyrim is Independant then there could be a chance of A Nord-Redguard Team up.

If bethesda will not release TESVI 2nd great war will start

that bit about the merchant ships was pretty clever. I can tell you really put some thought and detail in this.

An invasion through Blackmarsh would never work. The other races of Tamriel can baerly survive on the outskirts, yet your talking about marching tens of thosounds of troops through. Never mind the fact that the Dominion would some how ahve to equip, suply and feed that army without any viable land route... It would be a logistical nightmare the likes of which has never been seen. Nevermind the fact rapid strikes that is the basis of your plan requires nice, easy to march through territory, not boggy, marshy wasteland that would do as much damage to your army throug attrtion then an enemy assault would, and would massively slow down the armys ability to speed march to quickly aqquire territory to defend before the EMpire coul react. Furhtermore by pulling sufficent numbers of troops into attacking what is essentially the useless wasteland of Cyrodil, you would be weakening the defences around the only two assets the Dominion has in Tamriel, Valenwood and Elsywr, allow for an Imperial incursion. Having laods of forts is useless if they can simply be surrounded by and starved out due to sufficent numbers of their troops having been moved an entire province away... And finally... There is no way possible the Dominion coudl surpise attack the Empire through Blackmarsh. Like I previously said the only parts the Dominion troops could even surive in is the coast line, meaning you would have tens of thsoounds of people musterd quite visibly along the coast. Nevermidn the fact that to supply and feed that army you would need to transport thosounds of tons of food for several years, espeically if you went ahead with the isnane plan of using merchant ships to ferry troops, which would take a signficant amount of time because you could only garry a couple lof dozen every trip or it would be obivous what is happening. Furthermore the only viable area of coastline the Dominion could land on that would allow for tranport into Cyrodil is Blackmarshes Western Coast... Which means going into sea routes controlled by the Empire, and likely with spot searches commited by the Imperial Navy to ensure things like this does not happen, probably under the guise of 'Searching for Controband'. I like the idea you have tried to do. But it seems that you are not qwuite fully consideirng the full scope of your plans in conjunction with both the realities of warfare - like the abusrd amount of food or water an army of just ten thosound would consume every week even with severe rationing, or the full nature of the sitaution in Tamriel - both polictcally, militarily or geographucally, and how taht would effect any possible campaign. Nope, sorry mate, but I got to the 3/4 through this video and was just laughing my head off at how little you consider. Are you really telling me that the in your mind the Dominion, having already weakend its army by splliting 70% of it off to Blackmarsh to Invade Cyrodil, is going to try and breakthrough the Imperial defensiive lines - which are still better fortified because they hve more troops than the Aldmeri do along the border, with only like 70% of there own defensive army going to counter attack th Thalmor... I mean you said the Imperial Army is larger than the DOminion, so not only would that tiny Dominion force me attacking a nnumerically superior force, but it would also be assulting what is, according to you, a very powerful line of defensive forteffactions? The IMperials have numbericalk supeortiy, Defensive foritfactions. And they are the defenders... And yet there apparently are easily swept away? And then they dont counter attack, and basicly comeptlly take Valenwood nad Elsweyr fron the Dominion because apprently the DOminion has comeptlly drained all its garrisons into this one, ditched suciidal assault on the imperial defensive line in the East? I liek you, but if you ever want to make a video like this again, you Need to learn far more about warfare, create a better and more logical script to check for errors, consistency issues or just things that make no sense, and generally just get a better strategic mind that truly understands the istuation you have set yourself. BEcause to be brutally honest? The content of this video just seems stupid.

I think we might see the Empire fund the war in Hammerfell or fund an uprising in Elsweyr. It would be sensible to fight a proxy war in which your enemy expends troops and you don’t. Just like the Dominion did in Skyrim. IF, and that’s a big if, Titus II had himself assassinated a new emperor would have more to offer a rebellion than Titus did. Freeing up the Redguard troops was a pretty cunning plan and elves take longer to replenish their armies than humans do and Khajiits breed like cats so if they lose Elsweyr the dominion will be on the defensive.

Amazing video :) Personally, I think that the Altmer will infiltrate the Empire, inserting a gigolo close to the Emperor who will convert him to the High Elve's cause.

The Thalmor have absolutely no intentions of starting a war, they will only fight once they’ve already won, They will do this by balkanising all of their opposition until it is like shattered glass, with city vs city, village vs village and family against family. Then they will roll in their army that will be like a brush sweeping aside the shattered and bickering humans. The only thing that can save Tamriel is if the Thalmor are FORCED to attack. But despite this, Good video man, wished you do more. :)

I know it'd be difficult, but the Imperials should seriously make an effort to reach out to the Maomer to try and coordinate an attack. Even just to point out how vulnerable the Altmer would be when they're fully engaged with the Imperials and the Maomer should use the opportunity to attack their territories.

So the best the Aldmeri dominion could do is a stalemate and only if they are very, very lucky. Also don't forget the impact of the knightly orders of Cyrodiil could have on the war; the Knights of the Nine are a rather large order close to where the fighting is and though they said that they will not participate in the secular wars of men, I would technically count this as a race war to defend humanity from elven-kind, which is part of the knightly order's dogma. Their history is not mentioned after Oblivion but I would think that they wouldn't be bothered so much as they aren't a part of the imperial army and therefore not able to be touched by the White-Gold concordat except through the Talos-worship aspect, which they weren't entirely solid about in the first place. Furthermore, attacking Cheydinhal would have the Knights of the Thorn join in the defense, not sure how much good they'd do but every sword would make a difference. And finally just throw the knights of the white stallion in there just for lols.

everything is way smaller in the games daggerfall: am i a joke to you?

Thank you for creating this video and that you didn't give up on it.

Hey man, I want to compliment you. You're doing a great job, in general. Illustration, script, content, all of it. I hope you dont give up and continue, even if it takes you months for a single video. The rational, grounded way in which you present your thoughts transforms these videos over a fictional universe almost into some kind of interesting lecture. While looking through your videos, it is really noticable how you're improving. May it be in speech, english articulation, animation, sound quality and pretty much every aspect of your videos. Your justifications and/or explanations in the beginnings of the video; trying to clear out all possible conflict in advance; really make you seem like a humble person. I hope you can continue with this kind of videos or similarly illustrated lore-focused content and make some bucks off it in the future. Keep up the good work; I subbed and Im looking forward to see more videos!

I thought I might add a little about if the Dominion tried to invade Chedinhal. (Forgive me if I spelled it wrong.) But it is known for having good alteration spell users as well. A tactic that was used in the war against the Ayleids was getting above and on top of house to attack troops on the ground at night and breathing under water in the river then come up and attack troops at night as well. Though this didn’t stop the invasion. It did take long to about three days to find out what was happening to the troops and put a stop to it. Just an idea but I understand if it didn’t matter in this speculation.

The An Xileel and the Dominion? Nice speculation and thanks for the video :p

Amazing video man, keep up the good work!

I wonder if the Dragonborn will be involved in the war

I think that if the Empire win the skyrim civil war, they have a huge advantage against the AD. Any long war will see the populations of skyrim and High rock happily mobalised against elven forces and the inevitable defeat of the AD in a war of attrition.

Great video! Definitely will be subscribing

Great video! I am preparing to run an extensive TES role play campaign and this gave me plenty of ideas of what might be happening int the world while my players roam Tamriel. Thank you so much!

Awesome prediction vid! Your work is really impressive. In my opinion, I think you are right. Blackmarsh will have an important role in a case of a second great war.

Let's not forget that whoever won the Skyrim civil war will join the empire in attacking the Dominion. Even if the Stormcloaks win, Ulfric isn't stupid, he'd know that the Dominion cannot win a second war and so he'd send as many Nords as he could to help the empire as an ally. If the Empire won the civil war, then general Tullius now has a sizeable army of battle-hardened veterans to reinforce the southern Imperial armies. In either case, the Nords would enlist en masse to defeat the Dominion and end the ban on Talos worship. Once the civil war has ended, the Thalmor either need to attack very quickly or face a far stronger Empire.

This video is really well made compared to your older ones. Good job I like the better quality

awesome video man

1.Befriend the Maomer 2.Have them troll Summer Set as per past time 3.??? 4.Profit

I'm a fan of the Khajiit so of course I'd support the taking of Bravil and Leyawiin. I'm not really a fan of the Dominion though so it's a double-edged sword.

Great video!

Love this channel so much

I really want Balgruuf to be High King. I want, as well, the Stormcloaks and Imperials to team up against the Thalmor.

Could you do an alternate version of a 2nd Great War with the Stormcloak’s victory? After-Civil War Skyrim and allies vs Aldmeri Dominion and allies

Excellent job on the video. I really enjoyed it and appreciate the time you put in to making it. It was entertaining and in-depth. Like you said its fun to speculate lol. Anyway good job and keep up the good work friend.

Great video and interesting speculation. Also those animated maps are very good!

Litterely my Skyrim character could beat the entire almeri army by itself and the help of his 2 dragons sworn to fight with him and his lydia who is ready at every moment to carry some burdens

15:51 I don't know, I feel like once the Empire realizes most of the Aldmeri army is east of the Niben, they might try to gamble and attack with all their border forces into Valenwood and Elsweyr, to try and smash through the weakened defense and quickly take over both provinces, thereby cutting off the army in Cyrodiil and forcing an Aldmeri Dominion surrender.

This took months to make? That's amazing! I can't believe you don't have more subscribers!

dude this is awesome!

Wouldn't they also call on the Bosmer and Khajiit as Client states to also attack and seperate Imperial forces? I would think the Dominion would also offer to help the An-Xileel take revenge on the Dunmer and help suppress them as well. The Thalmor would try disrupting their forces before attacking right?

I personally believe that the Civil War in Skyrim May still be going on when we get the next game. Because in the main story of Skyrim we see the war stop for a second but it continues. The war Quest are not Canon. I believe that as soon as the war breaks out that the Aldmeri Dominion is attacking again. Immediately Ulfric will Sign a truce and go fight The Dominion as soon as possible. You also didn’t give much to say about HammerFell. I felt that if the Dominion began another war now. HammerFell, Rebel Skyrim, and The Empire would all Unify again and Crush the Dominion. That’s just my opinion, feel free to Reply what you think of what I’ve said here anyone.

Interesting, nice job, I like how you take comparisons thinking in realistic way, I appreciate it due I'm writing a TES fanfic lore, some stuff I want to add my story is about realism, another is war and conflicts. Please keep making more stuff about TES, you do a really good work!, and congratz for it

Interesting, love this video

The dominion wouldn't attack as the situation stands though, they're playing the long game. They're actively trying to undermine the empire so it cracks before any invasion occurs, which is working. I think the result of the civil war in Skyrim ends, it also changes their plans. If the stormcloaks win, they will almost certainly NOT help the empire, since they just had a war against them and resentment piles up, and it would cut Highrock from Cyrodiil. It would be Cyrodiil vs the dominion, so the dominion would easily win. Remember that the real reason why the imperials managed to stop the dominion in the first war was because of nords and redguards. Now they have neither. If the empire wins the civil war, the dominion will keep breaking the empire apart little by little, since they're theoretically partners, they do have the empire on their hand with the concordat.

imagine if the DragonBorn was there in the War....

Great work !

I wish you had more subscribers. Marvelous video!

I just assassinated the emperor ... oops sorry

Why does the Empire have control over small sections of Morrowind? I don't think House Redoran would let the empire occupy Dunmer Land.

Wow, your speaking has really improved since you talked about the first great war. Great job man, love your videos.

Good video thanks!

I love the idea of a second Great War. However, I think that if Hammerfell was invaded to hit the Empire would not work at all. Hammerfell defeated the Dominion on their own terms after the White-Gold Concordat was signed. I think that if Hammerfell was invaded, the Empire would quickly send aid to help and the province would be reunited with the Empire. As for Black Marsh, I completely agree that the Dominion would get crushed trying to invade the province. However, I don't think the Dominion would be able to make a treaty with them. I think the Argonian-Elf tensions are far too high because of the Dumner slavers. Overall, I love the ideas and speculations behind this video. Great video!

I'm guessing for this, you're assuming the stormcloaks lost? Before I launch into a full tirade, everything you did cover seem logical enough, the split imperial fleets, size of Tamreil the time it takes to move armies, great graphics, citing ww2 strategies etc... But it seems like you are complexly discounting grand spells, that can do things like hiding whole armies, and that armies can and have, even in ancient times just built their own bridges in short periods of time, instead of only using preexisting ones. Lastly I know the Aldmeri dominion is on the offensive here, but not even Imperial counter offensives?

I think it would be cool to have ES6 in Hammerfell and have you participate in the war. Have the option to pick either side but have it as a pyrrhic victory for either choice. The Empire and Aldmeri Dominion both fall apart leaving the chance for someone else to rise up. The time of man is over the time of the orc is about to begin

Great video

Wouldn't Dominion merchant ships be trading FOR Argonian Ale rather than transporting it to Black Marsh?

Hey that's pretty good.

Excellent video also i think you have the best intro on KZfaq

I must say i really enjoyed this speculation video. But I generally doubt there will be a second great war. As you pointed out the armies probably have the same strenght. This would just lead to a cold war, where noone starts with his first strike. So as in your speculation the only chance for an actual war is a surprise attack. But i doubt the Argonians would ever side with anyone. Neither can the Dominion start an attack against Hamerfell or any other province because it would lead to a weakened border to Cyrodiil and the Empire would use the chance to attack Valenvood/Elsweyr. Even if the Dominion manages to conquer a part of the continent they would lose in the long run. By conquering all of Valenvood and Elsweyr the Empire would remove a lot of Aldmeri influence from the continent and Aldmeri reinforcements would have a lot of problems to arrive. Considering all of this the Dominion has to attack Cyrodiil directly. But this is really difficult due to the fortification. And even if a suprise attack like in your video would, work the Empire could just go for a scorched earth policy to slow down and eventually stop the attack. To sum up: I dont think the Aldmeri Dominion has any chance of starting and winning a second great war.

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I love your vids

I don’t like how the Hammerfell/Skyrim border is not really blocked by mountains. A straight shot into Skyrim through Falkreath Hold. That’s if the Redguards can’t hold back the Thalmor, Nords will have to plug that entrance.

I think the aldmeri population decrease by 30% They also are not fertile as humans.

I really want to know your opinion the only thing that is keeping me from wanting to help the empire is they allow the enemy, the Dominion to go into Skyrim and hunt down people that worship Talos which I think is unfair. Second the Empire got Ulfric Stormcloak arrested (Markarth incident) they betrayed him and hammerfell.

Well done for making this video because are the best lore KZfaqr on elder scrolls

I am asuming that since you have SKYRIM coulerd red on the map this speculation is with an Empire victory in the civil war. If so then how long after the the war is this invasion? If it happend soon after, maybe a month later. Then the empieral regime of skyrim may not have been in a position to aid cyrodil very much. But if this war starts a few months at least later then a few legions out of skyrim could cross the jerral mountians and (maybe) join with/draft a token force of the Bruma city guard and liberate Cheydinhal if it was taken our under a pending siege. But if skyrim was under STORMCLOAK rule do you think they would even try to help the empire?

The second war will never happen because Bethesda will never Release TES 6.

Im late as hell but you do good work bro.

I can't imagine The Dominion blitzing from Blackmarsh through a Bottleneck between a river and a mountain region and push across 3 rivers, rivers are natural barriers that a defense force can easily dig into. Even if The Dominion was met with minimum resistance, they still have to move a large amount of troops and their caravans across these rivers. You have to secure your flanks and your six to ensure your supply chain doesn't get cut off and you can provide reinforcements, you also need to leave garrisons behind to secure logistics routes. They would have to lockdown the entire southwest region before making a push like that or they risk decimation

Pretty good video. I love when people speculate military strategy and This is one of the better plans I've seen for a 2nd great war. Seems to me like the Empire might win this though if they get Hammerfell and maybe Morrowind (somehow) to fight with them.

I think the Empire would likely have access to the Dragonborn so I think while this could be the first half of the war, I think the rest of the war would be the Empire pushing back the Aldemeri with the help of the Dragonborn, maybe even sailing to the Summerset Isles

Hey cool videos dude

You deserve more subs

Nice video

Why doesn't the Aldmeri just take the army that took over Bravil and Leyawin and surround the imperial army at the bridge? You would essentially break the stalemate, wipe out the imperial main army and secure your supply lines in one fell swoop.

Personally I don't really see how the empire can lose. The Aldmeri forces relied on the orb of Vaermina to progress and once they lost that they faltered at every step. They suffered heavy casulties that compared to a human population will take much longer to replenish, humans breed way faster than altmer. The moment the empire managed to shake off the enemies element of surprise they won at every turn, now they are prepared they don't even have that. It is also theorised that the situation in valenwood and elsweyr isn't great politically. A possible rebellion in valenwood would hamper any war.

This is an interesting scenario. My head canon is that the Dragonborn reunified Skyrim under the Empire, defeated Alduin, ended the Volkihar vampire threat, destroyed Miraak and wiped out the Dark Brotherhood for good measure. After news of these exploits spread throughout Tamriel, and given his dragon blood he is immensely popular with the citizens of the Empire, Skyrim especially. He rides into the Imperial City cheered on by the common people, the guards dare not stop him. In exchange for his own life and that of his family, Titus Meade II an extremely unpopular ruler relinquishes his throne to the Dragonborn. Hammerfell is approached without the Dominion's knowledge, to rejoin the Empire, to avenge the dead of the Great War. Next the Emperor sends four legions to reclaim Morrowind's ancestral border with Black Marsh in exchange for their discreet loyalty. A non-aggression pact is signed with the Argonians, their current government is extremely isolationist. The Khajiit in Northern Elsweyr wish to be reunited with the south, the Emperor backs a popular coup of a pro-Imperial government and it succeeds after a year of brutal fighting. The Dominion has lost a valuable client state. Valenwood is full of Wood Elves that resent their treatment under the Thalmor. The Dragonborn Emperor convinces the royal family to sabotage Dominion supply lines in the event of a mainland invasion. And join the war in earnest once Dominion forces are purged from Valenwood. The Empire is now stronger than it's been in centuries, only now is the Emperor ready to reinstate the worship of Talos. The 2nd Great War begins and The Empire (consisting of High Rock, Cyrodil, a unified Skyrim and now Hammerfell, Morrowind and Elsweyr) launches a series of blitzkrieg campaigns against Dominion forces garrisoned throughout the mainland. The heads of every Thalmor spy are sent back to Alinor as a token of thanks for the gift given to the Emperor in 4E 171. The combined forces of the new Imperial Navy decisively destroys the Dominion navy and a blockade of the Summerset Isles is now in effect.

I have some notes to take from this video. Because it just gave me an idea for some future battles in an Elder Scrolls crossover fanfic I’m writing.

Took me a bit to get to this video but very well done man

new sub, came from the vid on the first great war and i just wanted to comment on the strategies for either side in the second; Skyrim would be a focus of either side, the altmeri wants the imperials to waste a lot of troops up there, if they can somehow twist skyrim away from the imperials (as they are likely to win the war in the first place, great vid on that btw) or just cause enough troops to be tied up there to not have to face them on the battlefield, this is where a lot of diplomacy and espionage are going to be critical for both sides, the altmeri definitely would want to have skyrim on their side but that is exceedingly unlikely to have happen thanks to the thalmor and the concord so the best they can hope for is for an independent skyrim that is more or less antagonistic toward the imperials... unlikely to happen as it is... For the Imperials Skyrim has to be secured or neutered in one way or another, if they cannot win the civil war, granting independence is one way to remove a dangerous situation for a while, while they focus on the altmeri, that means they have a triumph card there with granting independence at the cost on the long time outlook... Morrowind is also very important, even if the altmeri can only count on part of the families there, any troops the imperials are forced to divert there are again troops that are not used against the altmeri, diplomacy would be the prefered route to gaining an ally there and if they can be secured by alliance with the majority there they can open a front alongside the blackmarch one, again an uncertainty if that can be secured by the altmeri but they are both elves and a common front could be made through a dislike against humans, again any troops or even resources diverted there are taken from the frontline and even if it never comes to a fight they are still not available at the outset of the war but could be brought in. the perfect scenario for the Altmeri would be to get Morrowind to join them in creating an elven empire or conclave of sorts. for the imperials, a lot is going to be dependent on what happens here directly and since it is not a direct frontline with the altmeri, diplomacy and espionage to secure just enough allies there is probably "sufficient" to not divert more attention and forces there to weaken the frontlines, they can also be able to secure at least some forces from there as well to weaken the altmeri-blackmarsh blitz so again critical to the outcome if either side can bring the majority of morrowind in on their side. Blackmarsh, as i agree with your vid there, blackmarsh is the obvious culprit to go through to outflank the imperials, the Altmeri want them to come in on their side to join, support and supply the "blitz" there, anything the Altmeri can do there to make that happen is going to be very very critical to the outcome in the long run, the downside of siding with the agonians is that it can be seen as a provocation by the various factions in morrowind and possibly lead to another front for the agonians and the altmeri, so morrowind is going to be the deciding factor for how much support the argonians can supply directly. where the argonians will be critical is the swamplands, i do not see the Altmeri getting far into the river without neutralizing forts on both sides as that can seriously impair the altmeri fleet and be a serious bottleneck if the imperial fleet isnt defeated too badly before it can withdraw up into the river and use the narrowness to their advantage, which i do not think you really mentioned or put much thought into and it might be the very critical advantage the imperials can have against the altmeri to their favour, so a lot of effort has to be put in there as well, neutralize the forts, fleet and imperial forces, diplomacy will get the support of the argonians, espionage critical to the blitz and we would likely see a majority of the effort here as it is THE breakpoint. for the imperials, they have to put effort into a lot of places, blackmarsh being one of the critical here for this strategy but they can trade land for border security and mostly neutralize the Altmeri strategy here, they can withdraw their fleet into the river to do a salamis where the numerically superior Altmeri fleets numbers can be neutralized completely if they make the stand where there is a point narrow enough to block the river and have forts on both sides to make their fleet anchored. the problem also exist on the other side where the imperial fleets can withdraw up a river and neutralize the numerical superiority at the cost of allowing free access to the coastlands to the Altmeri... then comes hammerfell, hammerfell is very unlikely to join the altmeri but they are no longer an imperial state so a lot will be focussed there in terms of diplomacy, espionage and subterfuge, so the longer the altmeri can keep hammerfell out of the war the stronger the altmeri stands in the long run, the altmeri could invade and do some dividing and conquering if the empire is forced to stand by and deal with other matters... this is very unlikely as hammerfell could probably call on the empire at the cost of rejoining which i do not see as unlikely at all... for the empire, having "lost" hammerfell is a problem, if they can in any way get them to rejoin before hostilities they hold a massive trump card with battle-hardened warriors and former imperials rejoining the ranks so massive efforts are going to be the strategy here which would likely cause the blackmarsh to be secondary and open that up to the altmeri as they cannot put equal effort in everywhere and everytime. and if we presume the lands of the wood elves and khajits are secure, they are probably very likely to be the recipient of a lot of attention from both the empire and the almeri, i am unfortunately not very well versed in the lore of either even though the khajit are one of my favorites to play and where i want a game to be based in before i die =) then comes one of the places where es6 is likely based in, High Rock, birthplace of the Bretons, the Altmeri would be extremely favoured if they can in any way bring the imperials to divert more resources there than the Altmeri would use to cause any problems for the empire here, given just how volatile the breton politics can be, even a small spark could lead to a storm without equal for the empire and the future of tamriel, with both hammerfell and skyrim in a lot of problems after the wars, the imperial fortune is going to be set here, with high rock in flames the empire has very few places left to retreat to for support and could fall apart there and it could be why they could/have set it there to be played out with politics, diplomacy, espionage and a lot of subterfuge... hopefully we will see a lot of it here in the next es and hopefully we will be able to set the spark of rebellion or a fire to cleanse the lands of the Altmeri. as for strategies for both sides, neither can use might directly or lose support of the people and neither can afford to ignore this place and neither may see this directly but a general such a tullius could be the one to be set to deal with the situation if skyrim has been dealt with... so this is where i see the first blood spilt for either side, the Altmeri fleet could possibly squash the imperial in the west and do hit and run using both khajit and wood elf tactics to the extreme if they have learnt form the first war, then even small contingents can neutralize large imperial assets, force a lot of troops and forces to be garrisoned to counter this, which if blackmarsh have joined the altmeri they can possibly lean on their troops to do the majority of the fighting in the east and with a neutral or friendly morrowind their eastern front is going to be a nightmare militarily speaking, even on the diplomatic without even a drop of blood being shed in war... for the imperials, they have been able to count on the support of the high rock kingdoms for a long time and they cannot be seen as abandoning them in a time of need and they will need to put out any flames there before it gets as bad as in skyrim so again, a critical and very vital issue, not only are the bretons the most magically inclined of the human races and one of the best to counter the superior magic powers of the altmeri... and should the heartlands of the empire fall, the imperials could fall back on high rock for a protracted war while the empire regroups and recovers from the first wave of attacks in the war so i think we can sum this up with; the war will be won or lost in high rock, what strategy will be used is going to be up to a lot of different situations but since the orb of vaemina is in imperial hands the altmeri are going to be using subterfuge first and their armies last.

Well done on the video! Another option is to invade through my favorite place high rock. Although, they should know that my Breton brothers are made to take down high elves! Slainte’

No, nothing wrong. You’re about the right only one who did a video on this. Thanks a bunch!

Great video, but I have a few alterations that I would make. Firstly, given that TES VI is confirmed to not be set in black marsh (likely hammerfell given the convincing azra's crossing theory), I feel like a second great war would probably be a naval invasion of hamerfell so we can see it in game. I realise that it must have been annoying for that info to come out just a month after you release this video though. Personally I think the empire would be quite weak though. Since the great war they've had to deal with the civil war and return of the dragons in skyrim, the independance of hammerfell and the assasination of Titus Mede. The fact that the thalmor had such a strong presence even as far north as skyrim indicates to me that they are in the superior position. Also I feel like the Aldmeri Dominion would not enter a second great war without some major advantage. In skyrim we saw that they unsuccessfully tried to steal the eye of magnus, but they could also ally with the Pyandonean maormer, exploit some civil unrest in hammerfell or something else.