Quote Originally Posted by druid91 View Post
The issue being that neither were the Dominion forces. They had a weakened army left in Hammerfell, and that was it as far as forces they could deploy abroad.

The whole thing simply assumes that the Dominion had the means to continue the war. And they simply didn't. Even if the legions didn't actually do any fighting and just tried to rebuild there's nothing the Aldmeri could have done about it. And it would have enabled the Empire to support Hammerfell in other ways.
That's certainly one possible interpretation, but so is "what the Dominion could scrape together would have beaten what the Empire could scrape together" or "neither side would've won decisively and it would've turned into a drawn-out meat-grinder" or some other alternative. We don't know the numbers on either side and we don't know for sure who was the most ready to keep fighting (or "least unready" as the case might've been).