User blog comment:Matthew Paul/BioWare never made a case?/@comment-24174486-20130110074615/@comment-98.21.229.149-20130111030749

@Lily, Ah what the heck... It is not that more soldiers don't help out, but you just said it yourself that the main objective is protecting the Crucible, and last I remember, soldiers can't move very effectively in space, and are not anywhere near close enough to protect it, my Sahara analogy comes to mind again, what I meant was that while more soldiers will mean you have a higher chance of winning, you could completely forego soldiers and invest only in Dolphins and Sharks and if you have enough still win, that is what I am saying.

@GEnerally, I was saying that in the end it does not matter whether you have 6,000 WA of ships, or 10,000 WA of soldiers, as long you meet the requirements of the best ending, it doesn't mean squat in the vanilla game, and they lied about the endings being wildly different, they were and still to a point are identical save for a different color scheme.