Haha thats good stuff. I heard Windhelm gets partially destroyed by joining the imperials. Does Solitude get the same treatment from the stormcloaks??
either way, Whiterun looks the same after you defend it or take it over. I believe the Solitude Market has a toppled stand but thats about it. Windhelm being mostly stone survives without many scars if I recall correctly.
Whats weird is I successfully destroyed the attacking Stormcloaks on Whiterun. Even kept them from breaching the barricades. On the quest log successfully kept them from breacking the barricades, the bride, the gates and dragonreach. Yet somehow they still manage to destroy the center courtyard and the house of the Talos Priest... guess they have no love for their Talos priests and destroyed his house. I wonder if he switched to another of the divines lol