This would be an awesome expansion, similar to Tribunal/Bloodmoon/Shivering Isles. But Bethesda said they're releasing a handful of smaller DLC's and no expansion, stuff like the Pitt and Broken Steel, right?

Hopefully they do like three smaller DLC's, then an expansion before setting Skyrim aside.

If you guys would read the Lore, the are no more Thalomor/Dominion forces in Hammerfell!

lol

I hope so. In fact I'm surprised they didn't start with a thalmor DLC.

I'm not saying there are, I know there aren't. But they are still enemies of the Dominion and the Dominion still wants the southern half of Hammerfell, and the Redguars know that, so they will want to have allies for then the time comes. We know Ulfric already had plans for an alleigance with them, and I'm sure Tullius wants to mend over the feeling that Hammerfell has on the Empire, or atleast the Legion itself.

And Thalmor could easily snoop in from Skyrim behind you, and maybe it's Elenwin, the only Thalmor that you can't kill. The Thalmor are techniacally the equivalent of the Blades, they have worked in espionage before. Maybe the DLC requires the MQ and Civil War to be complete, much like Broken Steel.

the empire fully supported Hammerfell's actions behind the scenes but couldn't formally sanction them, because they'd just made peace and going ACTUALLY NAH [censored] YOU doesn't really help improve political relations. the legionnaires they left behind in Hammerfell played a massive role in helping drive the Dominion out.

ed wait i think i got my timeline wrong???

the Aldmeri Dominion is far too important an enemy to throw away in a DLC. TES6 set in Summerset is much more likely, though in all honesty i think i'd rather have Elsweyr, going by how fantastic the khajiit were in Skyrim.

Regardless of what Tullius wants, the Empire has already kicked Hammerfell from the Empire, and the Redguards are happy to be free of it. I don't think Hammerfell will be rejoining the Empire anytime soon, though I do see an alliance with Skyrim coming...

You assumed I though that there were still Thalmor in Hammerfell. Well I know that they aren't, but that doens't mean they can't come back.

I know. I don't think Tulluis will do anything oficially, but he knows the influence you can have as the Dragonborn. Maybe he will tell you to go there and try to bring reason to the Redguard leaders that they should atleast agree to work with the Empire as an ALLy, not join it, and prepare plans to stop the Dominion for when it inevetably hits the fan. Tullius wants nothing else for the non-Dominion provinces to atleast stand together as allies because he knows that the Thalmor are the true enemy.

Merged

Nah. I don't think that Hammerfell wants to get back in the Empire. According to the lore, they're much happier being free of the Empire than they were in it. They kicked out the Imperial troops there and fought off the Thalmor solo, so they've proven their military might. I think that aside from allying with a freed Skyrim, Hammerfell will have nothing to do with the Empire.

IMPO of course.

New area to adventure and stripped of all equipment.

Force the player to use skill to survive, not to rely on high armor rating and 200 damage weapons. Make potions scarce, healing spells weakened and a constant damage health effect (like the cloud in dead money). Some actual stimulating puzzles that require thought would be nice too.

I'm basically asking for a challenge, I don't play the game with 567 armor and 200 damage weapons, yet the enemies are too predictable and I have little problems on master.

Give me some high damaging, high speed enemies that scale up with the player (think sabre cats at low levels), in a challenging environment. Theres so many areas they could explore, realms of oblivion for example. Enemies equivalent to deathclaws of fallout, they were challenging at any level.

What do people think?

I'm not a challenge monkey, so I can't say I'm 100% with you.

Barely.

I think THAT DLC was the most horrific fail, in the FO series. You can easily simulate that by stripping yourself of everything before entering every dungeon and make it out on what you find along the way.

No one ver seems to see the word ALLY in my coments. They fought off an already weakend portion of the Domnion army. I know they don't want to rejoin, but maybe a frigging agreement to wrok together in order to stop the Domnion.

When people talk about Hammerfell they say that they destroyed every friggin Domnion soldier ever when really they only fended off one of the three armies AFTER they had a lot of help from the Legion in order to weaken that ONE army.

An Arena. 800 mp or $10. Would also include other side quests and some new armor and weapons.

No, I saw it. But Hammerfell has made it very clear that they want nothing to do with the Empire. Why is that so hard to understand?

I haven't been paying much attention to the recent lore because Bethesda's been very liberal when it comes to throwing away the old lore.

And I simply figured Thalmor have pockets of forces everywhere, trying to take over the world. Pretty easy to say "look, the Thalmore are now pushing into Hammerfell" then we get to go there.

Exactly, that's the point of my DLC idea, to try and convince Hammerfell to help the Empire (if you sided eith them)

I think Bethesda should make PC mods available as dlc for the console and while the community is busy enjoying that make a full fledged expansion that's like adding a whole new game.
On a sad note this is the bad thing about dlc or expansions. Eventually they'll run out of ideas for dlc and expansion because there whole series is based around tameriel. I feel sad because is going to hit a dead point like call of duty if they make large expansions or semi large dlc.

I just don't see the benefit of it.

They've kicked out the remnants of the Empire after kicking the Dominion out of Hammerfell, and they're half a breath from banning Imperial Ambassadors from their territories. I don't see why Hammerfell would even entertain the idea of an alliance with the Empire, not to mention the thought of rejoining it.

Now going to the Isles to take on the very weak Dominion at its core... that intrigues me.

oh, i looked at the lore didnt see anything about the argonians leaving.
i thought i said that just in a sumarized form.
like i said they were forced into the dominion and hate them for it.
i know that. the thalmor are not high elves in general they are the goverment.

indeed.

I couldn't agree more with this

i love the idea of possibly being kidnapped or tricked and thrown into an area completely new and oblivious to the player and basically given no items or equipment and forced to fight to the death for escape using only wit and technique would give skyrim that extra pizaz it needs!

I mostly just clarified your thoughts.

I know how they feel now. But if the friggin Dragonborn himself were to go over there and start peacefully negotiating an ALLIANCE, NOT [censored] REJOINING THE EMPIRE, they would be very inclined to atleast listen, which is the whole point of the possible DLC I am suggesting.

Actually there is a quest that does just that.