Originally Posted by
Keltest
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.