I don't know...I mean it sound difficult, but if you think about it:
If you lose WC1 or SM1 the Confederation is likely to lose the war in short order and you won't even get to WC2. Likewise you can't lose WC3 and continue the war.
If you lose SM2 then, well that's really a minor defeat, however horrendous the situation is for the Firekka. The situation could well be essentially identical by the time of WC2 ten years later.
WC2's winning and losing endings are fairly similar, it's just than the major Confed victory happens closer to Sol in the losing case. This may actually matter, but I doubt it, since Vukar Tag is away on the other side of the Galaxy from Enigma so everything that happens post-WC2 can probably still happen.
Tolwyn was always evil.
CT25 said:Is there any chance Tolwyn might not go 'evil' if the best victory scenario here occured?
Semi-on topic, but wasn't it during Fleet Action that the supposed Omega battleships were being developed? Or am I remembering that wrong?
More like "stealth carriers" according to FA.
The Kilrathi had gone through incredible expense and effort to start the secret building of a new class of carriers, if indeed what flimsy information intel had been able to dig up so far was true. The Confederation was doing the same thing. It was not so much a super carrier along the lines of suspected Kilrathi design, but more a stealth, heavily armored battlewagon with upgraded shielding that was proof against medium-yield antimatter warheads. There were rumors as well of a super weapon to be carried on the new ship, but that was an even darker secret.
I just want to say that my feeling is that since the Kilrathi came so close to conquering Earth, Tolwyn may very well feel that Humanity as a whole is still unprepared to face the next big threat, regardless of how well the Confederation did in the Standoff campaign. Yet, if one of the major catalysts for his decision to initiate the Black Lance was the Behemoth debacle (and the Behemoth was only pushed into service prematurely because of the Battle of Earth as it plays out in Fleet Action), then a swift victory in Standoff possibly would sway Tolwyn from doing what he did.