[Terminator]

He's the admiral Sol deserves, but not the one it needs...

[Flak]

I don't think he is Batman, he is Rommel.

[Dilmah G]

You know, that's not too bad of an analogy. Good call as well, I was reading (about) Rommel's book just now.

[-Sara-]

And I have this stupid gut feeling that he is going to sacrifice himself for Earth's sake through a strange play of circumstances. In the end those guys always see the bigger picture and do the noble thing, reinforcing the whole "I'm doing it for their sake, even if they don't appreciate it". Can't wait to see who Steele really is, when presure and the final hour really push him to the edge.

[An4ximandros]

 If UT has any degree of believability, he will charge a wall of Juggernauts & a Leviathan and get ROFLstomped. Of course, he's probably not that stupid in the real world, and that may just have been one way the whole thing could play out. It is a simulation after all.

[General Battuta]

If UT has any degree of believability, he will charge a wall of Juggernauts & a Leviathan and get ROFLstomped. Of course, he's probably not that stupid in the real world, and that may just have been one way the whole thing could play out. It is a simulation after all.

That doesn't happen in UT.

[-Sara-]

If UT has any degree of believability, he will charge a wall of Juggernauts & a Leviathan and get ROFLstomped. Of course, he's probably not that stupid in the real world, and that may just have been one way the whole thing could play out. It is a simulation after all.

I'm basing no assumption on UT. It's how that breed of character strikes me, there's always more to them. They're not the typical flat-character that needs killing, for the sake of 'good riddance'.

[Gray113]

I hope you are given a choice regarding Steele's fate depending on the decisions that you make throughout the game, although this would probably make the plot for BP3 problematic.

[An4ximandros]

 How so? According to 'Tutta you play as a 'Sudan

[Gray113]

I would still expect the most successful Terran admiral in the GTVA to get at least a mention in passing. A character mentioning that Steele got wasted by some crazy lesbian hippy would look daft if I choose not to kill him.

[NGTM-1R]

I don't think he is Batman, he is Rommel.

Steele is a far better officer than Rommel was. Rommel was an inspirational front-line genius but his skill as a manager of large enterprises was suspect. He was not a strategic or operational thinker, but a tactical one.

Steele has shown he can do all three, and more importantly, effectively integrate them.

[FIZ]

No offense intended NG... but first thing that popped in my mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIsSNEUmc4

[General Battuta]

No offense intended NG... but first thing that popped in my mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIsSNEUmc4

We try to develop our fiction with an eye for this level of analysis.

[FIZ]

Yeah, I know, and I respect that (exception that proves the rule above). 

Just me being silly after a long drive home.  I'll go back to lurking now.

Edit: (Trying to contribute and save face) Steele does have quite the logistical advantage over what Rommel had to keep parity.  Steele faces a siege on an unprecedented scale against an opponent that has been entirely self sufficient for quite some time.  Rommel... not so much.  After Africa, I do not think he was granted the same 'exception to the chain of command' that Steele now has at the conclusion of Act III.