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But most places have battle mages of their own, who might not be as skilled but many will be able to hold their own long enough their allies can kill 'em, and we are talking majorly different here too. Lets say we slash the Thalmor number by 7000 due to the great war and the Elves slow replacement of these losses (it could potentially be even less troops, as Khan said 25,515 at best without a counting the great war) then compare that to Hammerfells 33,000. It's almost half the size, the Redguards have about a 15,000 lead on them, and that's a large number advantage. Not saying it's be a walk in the park (Thalmor Battlemages are strong, as you said) but the Redguard definitely hold a fair advantage there I think.
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I think this whole argument itself on the presumption that they have met an opposing army in a land war. Provided with the current political climate of Tamriel, The Dominion has more than likely pulled most, if not all of its forces out of the mainland and back to the Isles. Given this probably highly possible scenario, no force in all of Tamriel would be able to stand a chance at crushing Alinor, short of recreating the All-Flags Navy sans Alinor, that is.

Given the way magic is, was and has been used within the lore, any forces at sea would be pulled under by summoned whirlpools, blown off course by summoned gales of wind and ambushed in summoned mist by the hilariously superb Altmer navy. It would take a very, very skilled enemy to beat the Altmer at sea, and the only time that the Isles have been invaded, it took a CHIM-Having Dragonborn Emperor holding the leash on a Time-Breaking Mega-Robot built by the Dwemer.