Sable Rhapsody wrote...
GuardianAngel470 wrote...
Yeah, I didn't know that either. Pretty crazy, and exactly why I don't ever put her in charge. It's also why I never think of her as my second in command.
Garrus is that, followed by just about anybody, except kelly. She's way, way down at the bottom.
That's something I don't get. I was convinced I would hate Miranda, and upon actually playing with her, I came to quite like and respect her as a character. She doesn't have the magic touch that Shep (and to a lesser extent, Garrus) have for lighting a fire under people's asses and getting them to rush into certain death, but she's a smart tactician who cares about mission success first and foremost. That was something my Shep came to respect, even despite the Cerberus thing. Miranda may not inspire loyalty or friendship as a leader, but she gets everyone to do their jobs competently regardless.
Also, to be entirely fair, Garrus does have some serious weaknesses as a leader. He's headstrong, IMO a little too emotionally driven, and he himself admits he has trouble with shades of grey. I can't see him dealing well with morally murky decisions like Legion and Mordin's sidequests, or who to leave on Virmire. That kind of stuff would just eat at him. And the Shadow Broker's assessment of him was a fairly spot-on one. Despite his own skills, he continually defers to Shep's judgment even when he strongly disagrees (Saleon, Sidonis if Paragon). Even if he's a fire team leader all the way through and at the hold the line sequence, that leadership isn't independent of Shep--it's BECAUSE of Shep.
Not that these are bad things per se. I like Garrus's character flaws. They make him more realistic.
A very large part of leadership is inspiring subordinates. Very large. You cannot lead people that don't respect you. Miranda can get the job done if it is just her or a few of her closest underlings like Jacob but she doesn't engender trust and she doesn't understand what it means to make sure that subordinates have what they need.
She isn't a people person.
It's hard to explain why she makes a bad leader when it's 2:30 in the morning so I'm sorry if I'm not being clear.
There is more to leading than tactics and strategy. You need to be able to convey why people should sacrifice their lives for something. You need to inspire others to want to follow your orders because in the end those orders may get them killed. They know that, so they need to know why their sacrifice is necessary. Maybe not explicitly, and maybe not the truth, but a good leader needs to be able to make their subordinates willing to follow.
Shepard does this with the loyalty missions. I don't really know how Garrus managed to weave together a bunch of misfits on Omega, but his operations and leadership were obviously good. Miranda's track record however is not as good. Wilson, specifically, would have been spotted by a good leader because a good leader listens to his/her troops and watches for signs of discontent or fatigue. And before you say it, Garrus couldn't have predicted the gangs catching Sedonis and because of the external influence it wasn't his fault. Wilson, from his logs, saw Miranda as an ice queen, which is not a good leadership characteristic.
In this vein, a Renegade shep who is mean to the crew would also be a bad leader, but since this is a game, it doesn't amount to anything.
And Miranda wouldn't be at the bottom of my list, but as a second in command, she ranks fairly low. Not above Jack, Grunt, Zaeed, or Kasumi, but definitely below mordin, samara, Garrus, Tali, Joker, EDI, Legion, Jacob, and Thane.
There is the lack of trust the crew have for Miranda, her lack of people skills, and her lack of combat experience that rank her that low.
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