Bavarois Situation

Yesterday Bavarois experienced a major event. Lord Pyre and starz nearly took a classic base of a vice host and at the same time Kirk Helfen launched an attack on a vice host of ClassicB. If you need more information on the battles check the alliance war reports (lots of dead archers, heh). During the battles we were contacted by classic and through a long series of discussions held by Pyre several things resulted. One is that hostilities between Bavarois and classic are finished, for now. Two Classic and all Classic branches have listed us as friendly and we have reciprocated. Three Classic has offered some of our members membership in ClassicB (classic Bavaria). The last part of the deal was I believe greatly unexpected, but does present Bavarois with an opportunity. Currently the offer is for 1VH, 3 Presbyter, and 5 officer positions, as well as 50 slots or so for general membership. There is no easy way to communicate the offer effectively to all members of the alliance and have them vote in under 500 characters. It is also difficult to discuss unless everyone is on alliance chat at the same time. We do have a history with Classic for some of our newer members. One of the very first major conflicts in Evony server 9 involved Classic and Dominion. We in our infant state and trying to extend an olive branch of peace to one of the alliances chose to side with Classic and declared hostile towards Dominion. There may be more to it, as some of the hosts have relationships with people outside the alliance, but as a group we decided to back Classic. Well Classic and Dominion resolved their differences and came up with the idea of S9S, which I’m sure some of you are aware of. So Dominion felt it necessary to just attack us because we had them as hostile, instead of trying to be diplomatic with us as well. Thanks to the diplomatic prowess of some in the alliance, we averted a full on conflict with Dominion, but no thanks to Storma or Classic, who did not help with Dominion. So now the dilemma is do we 1) join classic (certain members would go, some would stay) and Bavarios becomes a feeder alliance to ClassicB, 2) Join Classic’s cause but keep Bavarios intact, 3) Join FF, the anit-S9S block, 4) Do Nothing. I fear option 4 would result in many of the mid-level members being under constant attack from various forces, as well as upper level members. I think some members could do fine defending themselves, but it would take some fun out of the game. So the real choice are 1), 2) or 3) unless someone has some other input. Please mail Kirk Helfen, Lord Pyre, justshawnf, Aberdeen or Cheesecake in game for other suggestions. We need to decide by Wednesday so time is critical. Classic is determined to move in Bavaria so keep that in mind, also they are friendly with most of the alliances we are currently friendly with Justice, Own3rz, 410. The one alliance they are not friendly with is Ironfist, who we have no current status with.