If you were to ask one question for Bioware to answer, about the trilogy, what question would you as

Thank you  - I need this "what happens to everyone after the war" thread - reading it might help qualm some of the post me3 angst I had. It's kind of embarrassing to admit it but I suffered it after growing to love everyone in the story.

No reason to be embarrassed When I first finished ME3, which was even before having the Extended Cut installed, I cried like a baby. Sometimes I still do, depending on what I do to my characters
I can totally get wanting a happy end. EC made it possible and sometimes I take advantage of it, sometimes I deliberately let my characters die to see and feel something else. I picked Synthesis and Control already as well, but yeah, it won't be too often overall, hehe.

The closest I came to crying was seeing Earth being scorched. Since then, I have done that many times. Still sad, but not as bad as seeing it for the first time

I played the trilogy for first time on this year and I cried with the extended cut during the memorial wall scene.

Why was the make your own choice system free of any real consequences for your actions? There are absolutly choices you can make that would lead to everything going to hell in a hand basket.

What happened to the Virtual Aliens during Mass Effect 3?

Yeah, Heavy Weapons in ME3 are totally imbalanced and lead to making the game far easier than it already is. I can see why they removed them. I just think its a shame they didn't add all of them to different places in the game. Would have been nice to use them all again, even just once.

Yes, I think I can assist you.

The normal strategy would be to focus on a single heavy mech and take it out fast. one at a time.

But this simply does not work on this mission. You should do the exact opposite of what one would normally and instinctively do.

You need to engage them simultaneously. Keep them all at bay while drawing their attention away from the crates. Squad control, drones, charge, hacking mechs can be of great advantage. And of course, heavy weapons. It is a good strategy to start with heavy weapons and destroy one of them really fast (or damage it till it can be hacked), and then try to divide the action with the squad-mates and the 2 enemies remaining.

If you can wait till you can recruit tali (or maybe even legion) because of drones as well as ai hacking, this becomes much easier because you need to act like an attention whore and keep all the mechs occupied and focused on your forces instead of the crates. You can also use snipping to divert mechs away from the crates and provoke them into engaging you. Kasumi fast invisible strike can also provide good assistance (if you have her dlc).

Even with this strategy, of using heavy weapons, drones and ai hacking once their life-bar gets exposed, it may take some attempts prior to succeeding.

  With galactic readiness at 50%, the player can get up to 3499 total war assets and still get that scene. Its not hard to do. Depending on what the player chooses to do for that playthrough, he/she could complete a couple of N7 missions.