First off, I appologize if there are threads already regarding this. But there are over 2000 threads to read through and I just don't have enough time to read through 2000 threads to find what I need.

I've started the Civil War quests and have sided with the Stormcloaks. (Screw the Empire. They were going to cut off my head!)

I've done up to the point where I've done the "Battle for Whiterun". The Jarl has surrendered and the new Jarl has been put in place. After the surrender, I am told to report to Ulfric Stormcloak to let him know of the victory and at the same time, the next step of the quest "Liberating Skyrim" begins automatically.

Problem I'm having is that when I return to Ulfric, there is no option in his dialogue to report the victory. I can't move on in the quest line.

I have reloaded a save from before the first battle and redid "The Battle For Whiterun" 4 times already and each time I get the same result. No dialogue with Ulfric.

As far as I know, everything is right up until that point. Everything happens the way it is suppose to. So I don't know what else I would have to do to get Ulfric to give me my next mission.

Can anyone help me with this? At this point I am about to shelf this game as I am getting pretty tired of doing each quest 8 times to get them to finish correctly. Kind of takes the fun out of the game.

But I have over 400 hours invested into my level 54 warrior. I'd like to finish the game!

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

hint: you can "search" and try to rely on good tags or previous posts with your key words

When you're done at Whiterun you should be able to go back to Windhelm and after he addresses you, Ulfric will give you the next phase of the chain where you're really just being sent to find Galmar at another hidden camp.

Check your log to be sure that you don't already have that and it just didn't flash on your screen that he assigned it. It'll be "taking back [insert area here] if you do. You might also want to make sure you don't have anything in your log for the council at High Hrothgar from the Dragonborn chain because this will freeze the Civil War chain sometimes.

If it's just not loading for some reason I'm not sure what to tell you because I've never seen this particular glitch. I'll dig through the forums and see if I can find anything mostly because I'm pretty good at sorting through the crap for what I'm looking for.

Did you talk to both the Jarls? Balgruuf and Vignar? Accepting the surrender and then installing the new Jarl on the throne?

hmm interesting. Have you tried talking to those in Dragonsreach? Golmar, Vignar (I hate Vignar, by the way), Raloff, etc. sometimes there's hidden requirements in these quests, though it could just be a bug itself.

I've occasionally found that, during the civil war quests after the battle of whiterun, returning to Legate Rikke or Golmar in the military camps sometimes has no quest dialog options.

<sub>Sorry, My bad. I didn't realize you could do a search.

The next thing in my journal says "Liberate Skyrim" and the objective says to report to Unfric. I did that but there is nothing new in his dialogue.
As far as the Greybeards thing, I am up to the point in the Main quest where I am to meet Delfine (spelling) at Riverwood.</sub>

if you're a PC player, you can maybe fix this via console commands.

I wasn't being a schmuck about the search thing, I just did it and can't find anything useful with the keywords I'm trying. lol

The gentleman above who suggested talking to Galmar or the Jarls in Whiterun might have a point. Maybe there's a hiccup somewhere. I know I was heartbroken the first time that Balgruuf told me he was disappointed in me and he'd expected more of me. lol

I'll keep looking, I know it svcks to be stuck in a chain and not be able to go farther.

Yes, I've talked to everyone in Dragonreach after the Jarl surrenders and yes, Vignar is installed as the new Jarl. Jarl Bulgraf requests a few hours to gather his family etc. and Vignar takes a seat at the throne.

Everything seems to go the way it's suppose to all objectives are complete and I get the "Battle For Whiterun" - Completed. And then I get the "Liberate Skyrim" quest. And reporting to Ulfric is the only objective in this questline at this point. But no dialogue to procede with it.

if you can't get it to flow right,http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Battle_for_Whiterun_(Stormcloaks)for console commands if you can use them and if you're that stuck.

maybe go to Ulfric and let some time pass and just open conversation with him? as dumb as it sounds sometimes you can trigger something in the list of options by asking things that are in his list of conversation topics.

as I recall it should be "reporting for duty" or something like that.

Do you have an option/quest for "Liberate Skyrim" where it tells you to speak with Galmar-Stone fist?. If so just go straight to him and ignore Ulfric.

@ Julienne - your link doesn't really take me anywhere. It asks me to start a Wiki Page? lol

@ Cobra - Here's thehttp://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_for_Whiterun. Have you tried traveling to Galmar in Falkreath and then back to Ulfric? And yes, try to wait maybe an hour or so and then try talking to Ulfric again.

I edited it right after I posted it because it wasn't complete. It should go there as of my last edit. Let me know and I'll bomb the dumb thing if it's still not working.

Yup, it's working now!

Yeah, I've tried all of that. I've clicked on every option he has in his dialogue. The only one that changes is the "How's the war going" question. He has the white marker over his head the whole time too. I've waited days in game to see if it would help but still nothing.
And like I said, I've redid the whole battle 4 times already. Taking my time and making sure each objective completes and making sure the Stormcloaks are still following me up to Dragonreach and so forth. Everything works perfectly up until I have to return to Ulfric.

The svcky part is that I've been very careful throughout my game (over 400 hours at level 54) and have worked my way around every bug so far. Completed everything in the game except for the Main quest (I'm a 3rd of the way through), the Dark Brotherhood, and the Civil War. Companions are done, Winterhold College is done, Thieves Guild is done, Bard's College is done. And all but 2 Deadric Quests are done. My point is, I know what I'm doing and I'm aware of all the possible bugs and where they happen. So this is really ticking me off.

Here is the weirdest part of it. After Ulfric won't give me a new option, I decided to return to Whiterun again to see if it might trigger something. When I return, about half the battle damage has dissapeared (fire and rubble) but all the guards are now Stormcloak soldiers. But when I go into Dragonreach, The old Jarl Bulgraf is back sitting in his thone and his Housecarl is still standing there. And upstairs at the war table, his steward is still there along with Vignar's steward. It's all messed up. Even the children are back running around the castle. Oh, and two of the children running around are invisible.

What a mess this game is.

I waited over 24 hours. After waiting, Galmar is back at the castle. I don't think he's suppose to be there though.

I have the game guide as well. So I know I did everything right and in order.

ugh... if you can console command I'd recommend you try a new save and see what happens... but it sounds already buggy enough I'd be afraid of leaving a mess behind me even with the console.

grr... sorry I can't be more help. it's like I felt when I couldn't do the dumb oculory quest in the mage's chain... I ended up using console commands until I found a patch to my graphics that made it so I could see the beams.

wow, yea you need go to steam, right click on the Skyrim game, select options or properties and then select "verify integrity of game cache"! See if that fixes some things!

Here are the exact steps


Verify integrity of game cache

• Load Steam
  
• From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
  
• Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game cache... button.
  
• Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.
  
• Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.

Yes. The only objective I have for "Liberate Skyrim" is to report to Ulfric. Nothing else.

Sorry people, I guess I should have mentioned that I'm playing on PS3. If I could go in and fix things on my own, I would. lol

Looking at the PS3 forums (technical issues) a lot of people have issues with the civil war questline. Maybe ask around there, see if anyone found a solution? I'm playing on PC, so sorry, I really don't know much about console bugs.

Well, thanks for trying to help. I appreciate it. Hopefully I can figure out how to get it to procede. If not, then I'm done with this mess of a game.

I've been holding out on 4 other new games I got for Christmas. I try to finish one before starting another.

Yes, the ousting of Baalgruff svcks. He's probably everyone's favorite Jarl (not counting Elisif or Ulfric because of their other titles). Also, Vignar is just a whiny ass dike. Some of the main reasons I prefer the Imperial side to stormcloak.

I advise moving on to another game for now. Don't totally give up on Skyrim, I assure you fixes are coming. Most Beth games, and indeed many other games (especially MMOs or rpgs) take a few patches to work out most of the bugs, and hopefully all of the worst ones. For example, the original World of Warcraft, in its first year of life, was outrageously buggy.

Many like to blame the game devs for the bugs, but I don't think it's necessarily their fault. When a few dozen devs run through a game their making and check for bugs or inconsistencies, there's only so much they can do. When you get tens of millions of people buying the game and exploring every nook and cranny, they're bound to find the bugs the game devs never even considered searching for, or the bugs they themselves never encountered in their tests. It often takes releasing a game into the public for the devs to actually encounter bugs.

I'm not new to Bethesda games. I loved Oblivion.

And I'm almost done with Skyrim as I stated above. (over 400 hours and level 54). Just getting tired of walking on eggshells to play it. makes it hard to really get into the storyline of thae game when you're constantly worrying if you're going to glitch something. It svcks. And by the time the patch comes out it will be too late for many.