If Joooray were part of your group, Andross wouldn't have been able to wipe you out in two turns; it would have taken three. There would have been a chance that town lynches the one recruit, and then they lynch the other one, and then after you wipe out one last townie, you go into the endgame with one remaining Wolf member, thus it could have been a Star Wolf victory as mafia.

It wasn't guaranteed but it could have happened.