I know not everybody has played out the war so I won't spoil anything. But it seems its didn't really matter. I know dragons were around but it seemed the war was very short and didn't change too much in the game. You don't really have many battles and it seems purely offensive. You rarely see any Legates or Stormcloak generals on battlefields either.

I would have liked to see the CW have more effect on world, especially as it progresses along one of the sides.

OK, let's assume it's too much of a pain to record new dialogue with existing characters. Given that, how about some new random encounters. Imperials win, new Imperial trade caravans, more Thalmor patrols. Stormcloaks win, pilgrims heading to shrines of Talos and the like. And where the hell are the 'you won, now clear out the camps' missions?

The Civil War really needed a lot of things to be added to it:


And more. This would have actually made it interesting for me to participate in. I like zen's ideas for post-war random encounters too.

I also wish there was a side-quest/random encounter that allowed you to either help Talos worshipers reach a point of safety, or hand them over to the Thalmor. Maybe even helping them establish their own Sanctuary out in the wilds of Skyrim, similar to that one quest involving the Lincoln Memorial in Fallout 3.

It could even become a source of income for the player, earning gold for giving the head of either organization an Amulet of Talos or, in the case of the Talos worshipers, Thalmor clothing to take as signs that the Divines are on their side, and allowing the Thalmor to be killed.

All in all, I wanted both the Civil War and the Talos ban to have a bigger impact on the game than they seem to have had.