Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
The Empire, at that point, has no intelligence on the Dominion at all. Holding out in a state of active conflict is strictly worse for them. The Dominion just sends saboteur teams in to assassinate people, destroy crops, and otherwise start a war of attrition that they can't do anything about because they have nobody available to do counter-operations. The whole point of stopping the warfare is to let them catch their breath, rebuild, resupply, and prepare for the inevitable second round. We are literally told this is the plan. At this point, arguing that the Empire could have kept fighting the Dominion to their gain is just ignoring what the game tells us. Its the worst kind of armchair generaling.
What, you mean exactly like the Thalmor is doing now but in the case that the war continued you'd be legally allowed to kill them and their reach would be significantly shortened by not having any legal excuse to be there policing the people of the empire?

No, it's listening to what the game tells us. It is the plan for Titus and the Legions, but it was a plan forced upon him by Cyrodiil being weak. Hence why he can't move legions from the Aldmeri borders. Because if Cyrodiil is attacked again the powers that be will cave again.

It's the desperate, obviously failing plan of an Empire that is out of workable options because their leadership is too weak to actually do what needs doing.