I recently used your guide to do my suicide mission. This time around I was trying to kill as many as possible w/ all squad memebers loyal (I don't have Kasumi though) and all upgrades.
Having the upgrades makes it hard to have everyone die especially if they're loyal.
Try this.
Send Garrus through the vent. he will die
Have anyone, not Samara or Jack, do the barrier. Take Grunt and Tali with you. Grunt will be carried off by the seeker swarm.
have Zaeed be 2nd fireteam leader. He will die
Since you mentioned that you took Samara and Legion to fight the reaper, I will use those. Both will survive fighting the reaper.
Tali, Mordin, Jack, Jacob, Thane and Miranda are left to hold the line. Since you don't have enough to keep everyone alive, these squadmate will die in this order. Mordin, Tali, Jack, Miranda, Jacob, and Thane.
If you send someone to escort the crew back to the Normandy, I would send Thane. He will survive.
So it will be Mordin, Tali, Jack, Jacob and Miranda left to hold the line. If I had to guess, Mordin, Tali and Jack will die
So overall, you will have Thane, Miranda, Samara, Legion, and Jacob left alive.
Of course if you didn't have the upgrades for the ship, at least 2 would survive since both squadmates would survive fighting the reaper because both are loyal
As I planned, Thane died as my tech, Zaeed died as my second leader, Grunt got swept up by seeker swarms, Garrus was my escort, and Mordin died holding the line. However, my calculations told me that Tali would also die the way I set it up and according to your guide. However she survived. Now the math was close but it was less than a 1.5 average (5 people were holding the line). I used the ME2 calculator too and it confirmed your guide's and my math, and yet I check and Tali is still in my squad afterward.
Here was my full setup:
Tunnels - Thane
Leader 1 - Garrus
Biotic - Miranda
Squad - Grunt & Tali
Leader 2 - Zaeed
Final Squad - Legion and Samara
Mordin dying is correct, leaving enough score for the others to survive.
Any idea what I did wrong? Or is it randomness? I don't mind Tali being alive I'm just confused as to why she is when everything says she should be dead.
Follow what I posted above. What you want to do is put Garrus, Zaeed and Grunt in spots where they will be killed. They have the highest scores. Getting rid of them makes things easier