ME3 and EMS score

themikefest Extremely helpful!

Copying this here from the "lets play" thread.

I finished with 8075 military strength (higher value is possible as I didn't even maximize, I wrote 100-200 in the "lets play" thread but it's more 400-500 apparently), I got the breath scenes. Note thet getting the Geths/Quarian friendly really helps getting an high score, going Quarians requires you to scrounge every war assets to get enough for the breath scene.

Geths are worth 810, Quarians 500.
Without Geth: 7265
Without Quarians: 7575

14thcommander got it with 7500.

I played through all 3 games, and in ME3 I did most side quests, all 3 DLCs and got all war assets from the planets. It only took me 28 hours including the last mission. So it's really not hard! You just need to do some exploring and side-questing and you'll be good to go. It's also important to get both the Geth and Quarians on your side. They both help a lot.

It is technically possible to get above 7500 with just the Quarians, but you need to get pretty much every little war assets from the game, especially the DLCs.

No much role-playing allowed to reach it.

Likely won't get there since I'm planning on trying to get out of ME2 with just Garrus and Tali alive lmfao

Well, technically Geth/Quarian war assets flip numbers based on what you did to the heretics in Legion's ME2 mission.

You rewrote them. If you destroy them instead, Geth have 510 assets and Quarians have a max of 830.

Getting the breath scene  playing a default ME3 playthrough will not happen. The most can get is about 7150. There is a thread mentioning missing war assets. I would guess a patch will be released to fix those, and Bioware might lower the requirement for the breath scene so someone can get it if he/she were to do a default ME3 playthrough.

Depending on your playthrough, at least 6 loyal squadmates can die during the suicide mission.

Another suggestion talk to Jacob right away. He will mention the armor upgrade. Do not get it. Since you have Garrus and Tali in the next game, and both will be loyal, they will automatically provide their upgrade for the ship, if you didn't ask them about them already. DO NOT upgrade the ship before doing the suicide mission. That's if you plan on recruiting all squadmates. 

One recommendation is to gather all the mineral resources you can before doing the suicide mission. If each are over 100,000 when importing you should get 100 war assets. 

If Grunt and Zaeed are not loyal, have them fight the proto reaper. Both will die. Most likely you will have Garrus and Tali for that. Then I would set it up where Grunt/Zaeed die during the barrier section and Grunt/Zaeed die as 2nd fireteam leader. Since you mention keeping the crew alive, have Zaeed/Grunt be the escort. What you want is to have the weakest squadmates possible to hold the line to maximize death. 

My plan was to take Tali (loyal) and Miranda (not loyal) to the reaper battle so that miranda would for sure die, since she's hard af to kill in ME2. Then Zaeed for the escort cause if I take him on the bubble I would have to have Morinth in order for him to get taken. But recruiting morinth is basically making her loyal. Even tho I do like Morinth for the comical shit of her being a succubus lmao. 

Also was thinking of Grunt for second fire team so he can die in battle like a true krogan warrior should. "good fight shepard" 

Which would mean Jacob for the vents (or non loyal legion).

Jack, Kasumi, Thane all dead with no ship upgrades. 

That would leave Garrus, Mordin, Morinth/Samara, Legion/Jacob for the hold the line. 

But I think this would mean only mordin dies at hold the line? So I would be left with Garrus, Tali, Morinth/Samara, Legion making it thru. Perhaps I should have tali escort the crew (which btw I'm letting half die, cause we don't stan that abomination that bioware put in ME:LE that's supposed to be "kelly") for her to survive and not die at the hold the line. Then I could take Garrus to the reaper with miranda. But then not loyal Zaeed is still alive. 

Idk shit's tough lmao

it's way harder to kill people off than it is to have them survive!