Tiny Chat People

I seriously doubt Grind wants anything to do with us by now, and maybe joining team admin as the junior partner does us good. At least it would give us strong incentive to clean up our act (or be kicked for being too annoying).

I mean, I agree that Grind probably doesn't want anything to do with us....
But I also feel that due to how patient Grind has been with us, and despite the sheer amount of frustration he's experienced he may still be willing to enter into an alliance. He seemed to understand that we tried to look for other options out of a desire to avert pain and suffering, and took the time to explain to us that not going to war would only enable Rein's tcp's to suffer worse fates should they survive this game.

I keep running this through my head, comparing the two sides of this conflict, and I think the phrase "the devil you know" applies, to an extent.
I think that Grind is less willing to express pleasantries and smooth things over than Rein, and what that means is that while Grind will likely chew us out openly he's still gonna be honest with us about that we fucked up as soon as possible.
There's a lot of floating variables about Rein, and I don't trust that.

If we have to go the Wax route we know it will at least be humbling. The issue still being that Wax joins the smallest team, and that means that we would have a 2v2v2.
The only advantage we have on that situation is that everyone is fighting a war on two fronts.
If we assume that Grind will go after Rein, and that Marzu will accompany him into battle, then we would be able to take advantage of it by assaulting Rein alongside them, or more sneakily, setting up traps at Grind's base.

The big issue here is that Prophet likely is on Grind's side. Not allying with Grind means we will likely have to kill Prophet. And even if we don't have to kill them, there will still be conflict that comes from besieging their second home, their only home.