Mjr. Whoopass said:
Basically Confed used their advantage in numbers and surprise and pressed the advantage to the conclusion. The way it was written really made me feel immersed in the battle and it was easy to visualize what was going on. The marine's basically mopped things up on the ground and desecrated the Kilrathi shrine (which was their objective in the mission).
Great job by the intelligence dept. in figuring out what to do to get the Kilrathi to do exactly what Confed wanted. That's the only battle I can think of where Confed had complete superiority from start to finish. Usually it's a desperate battle where they're outnumbered, outgunned, and have to use strategy alone to win. If all battles were like this I would find it boring. Since it's so rare, it was refreshing to watch the Kilrathi get completely pwned from start to finish.