I wouldn't have allowed Wolves to ally with Coalition from the very beginning of this current strategus because of what kinn pulled off in the last one, but generally i didn't have anything to do with most of the stuff that was going on simply because i disliked some decisions made by our leadership in the beginning, so this is all just my very own opinion on the matter. I don't think a "sandwich" was what the Kaiser, Ramses or anybody else had in mind. Can't talk about Mercs or templols, though. Since the GO and HRE rivalry is a neverending story the main goal was to stomp down GO. I'm not sure why we didn't do that already, but again, i'm not really involved in the whole thing for quite some time now, so i really cannot know.
Also, noone actually quit strat, i mean, as long as you are still mercing for the castle defence it's not really quitting, is it? That would have send chadz a message, although the point of the whole "we quit" was a little bit stupid to begin with.
I for myself can say that i did see that coming, when Wolves and cotgs were still on our side i even applied for GO and DRZ several times because goddamn, commanders while wolf-battles were just not the kind of commanders i would voluntarily jump to my death with. Let's just leave it at that.