User blog comment:Tullis/Absentia/@comment-158596-20100228133600

I do play a Vanguard, but I actually prefer longer range. The only time I've actually felt I needed to use Charge was in the battle with Jedore; I find it risky to suddenly be in the middle of all my enemies because my shields now appear to be made out of tissue paper. I normally use it to knock enemies off ledges or do massive damage when they're frozen... maybe I picked a different Charge specialisation from you? Worth investigating.

My strategy is debuffs and crowd control. I take out the enemies' armour, hit them with Warp, Reave, Overload, Throw or Slam, then use headshots to take them down. Garrus is probably filling the long-range role in your play strategy that I prefer to fill myself. But I haven't tried that team combination, not on Insanity anyway. Hmm.

Incidentally, I think part of my long-range thing may be due to a bug. It never occurred to me until someone else discussed his Vanguard playthrough, but my Vanguard, for some reason, has access to a sniper rifle. The sniper rifle slot has subsequently disappeared from an older saved game on a different charater, though, so I'm guessing this is an issue and not intentional.