I was about to take the last fort in Eastmarch when Odahviing passed by. I hadn't even called him but we had a lot of fun taking the fort

They fixed that glitch so the values don't get to insane levels and then into negative territory. With all the bugs to focus on it's amazing how they deem it important to fix the fun ones like this glitch or the Ohgma exploit.

I read somewhere a while back (was probably somewhere on here) that summoning Karstaag during the Battle of Whiterun is the very definition of "extreme overkill." Apparently the Stormcloaks never made it to the first barrier, so that's something that could be fun to try, if you wanna replace "Battle" with "Massacre."

Yes. For some of the fort battles I would ride Odahving with Durnehviir close by.

It feels good mopping up enemy forces, and then reporting back to Tullius/Ulfric in style.

another fun thing is, if you got a fire breath upgrade in Dragonborn, wait till there is a large amount of stormcloaks at the Barrier, then kill them all with your fire breath.

those Fire Wyrms spread like Locusts..

Such great ideas here. On my first play through i called a dragon to defend whiterun. Anytime it felt like i was getting overrun, Ova scooped up some guys or reigned down fire on them to thin out the herd.

On my second, i used all three words of storm shout and literally walked through whiterun to confront the jarl. It was perfect, people couldn't even touch my dragonborn.

Both times it was pure BA. I haven't done the fight again, but the fire wyrms sounds good, or disintegrating everyone could be options.