Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
With the Allied offensive stalled and bogged down fighting Dominion forces all along the Cardassian border, progress once again ground to a halt, forcing a new approach. Starfleet knew that a battle of attrition against the Dominion was doomed to ultimate, inevitable failure. As such, Alliance forces began striking Dominion shipyards and factories in an attempt to cut off the Dominion's flow of reinforcements.
Now on the defensive, the Dominion entered into an alliance with the Breen Confederacy, a development that would have significant ramifications for the war. The mysterious Breen demonstrated their prowess by immediately launching a raid on Earth itself - a devastating blow to the Federation's morale. The Breen then led the Dominion fleet in retaking the Chin'toka system, pushing the Alliance from Cardassian space and into retreat until countermeasures to the Breen's exotic weaponry could be developed.
Meanwhile, the Cardassians were growing increasingly disgruntled with life as part of the Dominion. Treated as second-class citizens on their own homeworld, an organised resistance eventually launched a guerrilla campaign on Dominion forces, effectively making the Cardassians the Alpha Quadrant's greatest hope. As a reprisal, the Dominion launched an orbital strike on Cardassia, killing two million civilians in the hopes of frightening the Cardassian populace into compliance. In fact, this had the opposite effect on the proud and resolute Cardassians.
Launching one last major offensive on Dominion space, the Federation Alliance was surprised to see the Cardassian fleet change sides mid-battle, laying waste to the Dominion and Breen fleets and forcing the Dominion to retreat back to Cardassia Prime itself. Completely surrounded and now without hope of victory the Dominion was initially prepared to fight to the death but eventually backed down, surrendering and officially bringing the war to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Bajor at the end of 2375.
Federation won this war by wishes and miracles. Literally. The alpha quadrant should've been annihilated, but the profits intervened. And the Founders were dying. If neither happened, everything would be gone.
It won the war due to the Prophets and section 31 that produced the disease that infected the Founders and also due to the Cardassians revolting after being tired of living under the Dominion occupation it was only a mater of time until they rebelled.
I love how Section 31 won the war single handidly. The Cardassians revolting had little part in it. They woulda just been bombed all to hell by the orbiting Dominion Fleet.
Well the Cardassian rebellion along with Kira and Odo were the ones who stormed into the Dominion headquarters and healed the Founder which convinced her to surrender.
From a military standpoint, I think that the healing and surrender of the Founder played little role in the war outside of giving the viewers an ending.
The Alpha Quadrant probably did not have the strength to invade the Gamma Quadrant and the wormhole was closed to the Dominion's forces. If the Dominion wanted to send another expedition fleet they would have to send it the long way and hope it got there without detection and intact.
The Breen would probably have to surrender to the combined alliance and much of Cardassia Prime would be slag.
The Founders would all die and that might end the conflict as the 'gods' of the Dominion would not be able to command their followers to continue the fight. On the flip-side, the Dominion might try to finish the final orders of the Founders in something like a religious war which may or may not die out.
I don't think I understand what you mean. Healing the Founder is what convinced her to end the War entirely, from a Military standpoint that is quite significant. the Founder ordered the remaining forces in the alpha quadrant to stand down.
Sending a fleet the long way without passage through the wormhole would mean crossing the vast distance between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants a trip that would take decades.
Not sure why the Dominion didnt just park a single Dra'hel outside of weapons range and just blow up DS9. Oh wait only in the game does that happen.
Butthurt much?
He does have somewhat of a point. The siege ships do ridiculously high damage to heavy targets. I killed the Whale Probe in 2 volleys from a few Borg wedges. Yes, they are Borg ships, but still, that thing had something like 60000 hp and a crap-ton of armor.