Criticism of RTS Storytelling

To follow my prior post about how Tassadar's actions during episode 1 are questionable, here's a post pointing out his blatant hypocrisy in episode 3 . At the end of mission 7, Aldaris chastises Tassadar for refusing to destroy the terran worlds. Aldaris is technically incorrect here: Tassadar delayed destroying terran worlds, but he still destroyed them.  Tassadar retorts and says he doesn't regret his actions and would've made the exact same decisions again. So he doesn't think in retrospect that it would've made more sense to ally with the terrans at the earliest opportunity instead of incinerating planets? He genuinely thinks his actions were the best he could've taken? It's even worse when you remember that he originally promised himself he wouldn't destroy any more planets after Chau Sara. Did he forget his promise? I get that the writers are trying to make him look like a strong hero here, but he come across like a sanctimonious moron who refu...

I think it makes more sense for Tassadar’s character to propose an alliance with the terrans to prevent further losses and glassing. This is at odds with the game canon, but that’s what this blog is all about. We know from the tie-in short story “ Revelations ” (written by the same author as StarCraft ) that Tassadar and his forces were on the surface of Mar Sara during the battle, fighting off zerg and rescuing civilians and marines. Why did Tassadar never hail the Magistrate of Mar Sara and offer an alliance to repel the zerg? He hailed the Sons of Korhal in a  cut mission  on Antiga (which is apparently still canon?), so it would be in-character for him. In the manual, after the glassing of Chau Sara Tassadar promises himself that he will never glass another planet and will  find some way to rescue the terrans . But in the game he goes on to glass more planets. He completely fails to prevent the zerg from decimating the terrans. Why have him make this promise if he can...