TheKillerAngel wrote...
I don't like the Ruthless profile because good officers do not get large numbers of their men killed.
That's a rather... narrow view of what it means to be a good officer. The fact is, sometimes, good officers don't have a choice. If they want to complete their objective, the only way to do it is to spend their men's lives. What seperates a good officer from a bad officer is that a good officer will do everything they can to save as many of their men as possible, and is competent enough that their efforts will actually make a difference. A bad officer may be someone who spends their men's lives carelessly, or someone who isn't competent enough to save their men's lives, or who doesn't have the spine to order his/her men to their deaths when it has to be done.
The situation on Torfan, as it's described, was a nightmare. The Batarians were dug into fortified, underground bunkers. Fortifications are generally accepted as a ten to one force multiplier. I.E. you need ten men to take a fortification for every one man defending it. That's the reason people build fortifications in the first place. Take those fortifications and put them underground, and that ten to one number will very likely increase, in the defender's favor. Shepard wasn't given discretionary orders. The orders didn't read "And if you can take these Batarian outposts without to much trouble, that would be swell." The orders were most likely something along the lines of "Dig those Batarian f*****s out of their holes." Shepard did what had to be done to complete the mission. And don't think for a second that Torfan was something that didn't need to happen, either. If the Alliance hadn't spanked the Batarians, chances are the Alliance would have seen another Skyllian Blitz sooner or later.
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