User blog comment:FridgeRaider88/Mass Effect 3 Squad Speculation (spoilers)/@comment-216.163.255.1-20100810145733

Interesting, but uou seem to not be taking 2 things into account with your analysis:

1. Love interests. For example Jack romanced in the male paragon route seems far less likely to leave Shepard to fend for himself.

2. One of the reasons the Vermire survivor wasn't recruitable is because they supposedly have an important role to play in ME3 that wouldn't support them dying in ME2. Could that role be NPC, possibly. But it would be far better if they were squadmates. Or maybe the "reward" for being faithful to them as a LI in ME2 will be the ability to recruit them whereas other storylines won't supoort that.

Personally, I hope that rather than introduce new character/squadmates, they set X number of spots on the team and let you custominze your team of 6-8 by choosing suriviors from ME1 & 2.

That means you won't be able to get everyone and maybe your overall squad choice reflects something about that Shepard or confer various bonuses/achievments. For example, recruiting your entire ME1 team gives you a "Like the Old Days" achievment with a defense bonus or recruiting an all human team gives the "Humanity Ascendant" and gives a weapon's bonus.

Just random thoughts. :)