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OK, but we don't actually know how autobalance works. We think we know how it works. But we also thought that having a magic knife in our game-zone would be harmless fun.

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We've made a lot of assumptions and 'figured the optimal solution out' many times. It's just as easy to assume that Wax doesn't count for his own autobalance function, or any other manner of problem that would throw a big ol' cat-shaped wrench in the plan.

If Wax winds up joining one team or the other, it forces the remaining player to either join their rival and Wax for a 3v3 or join our 3 person team for a 4v2.

To me it seems like the most likely course of action to result in a 4v2 game.

While sensible numbers-wise, I can't imagine Wax or Grind/Rein will be happy with that solution for their own assorted reasons. Who says that that aligns with their actual goals? Their first response to this idea will probably just be 'No, that's not how the game works'. This has happened in response to basically all of our choices in this adventure, and whether it's just blind intuition or pattern recognition, that's what I see coming if we ally with M&M and try to win the numbers game.

The 'worst' case scenario is a 3v2v1, if we misunderstood autobalance and Wax joins one of the two teams (this has the side benefit of revealing who Wax agrees with out of Grind and Rein, as he would have the active choice of who to side with). Whoever is the '1' leftover would probably be open to a 4v2 alliance, since their rival would be with Wax.

One of the 'better' scenarios is 3v1v1v1, in which all of our opponents are scattered and divided, but we are a team of noobs. There is potential to ally with either Rein or Grind to make it 4v2.

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SpoilerOOC: From experience playing Starcraft in the school computer lab back in high school, a really good player can beat three noobs ganging up on them about 70% of the time. If there are three good players all fighting each other as well... I dunno. I have no experience in that particular matchup.

Another good scenario is straight up 4v2, convince either Macaron or Marzu to flip and then join that alliance. Solid teams, but a more tangible number advantage and we have at least one veteran on our team. The problem with going straight here is that Marzu doesn't like Rein, and Grind doesn't like us.

Going up against Wax would be dangerous, but we would be stuck in 2v2v2 if we want to stay on Wax's team alone.

To both be on Wax's team and be in an even 3v3 game at the same time, the best solution would be to convince Macaron to join Grind, then essentially stab Macaron in the back to ally with Rein and Wax. This would place us with two veterans against a veteran and two noobs.
(This seems like a really villainous thing to do, and I don't want to manipulate Macaron. So I am against this particular course of action.)