Yaseikhaan started the game by calling for the death of certain people, and I obliged. Reason was, if he's mafia, such a tactic will get him dead sooner. If he's townie, he's got a decent shot of hitting mafia or at the very least spooking them. Sasaki and TinCow didn't enter into it until Khaan died. And yeah, I decided to wagon people this game, I decided rather arbitrarily who to follow. Until recently I've never really ever been on the same page as Sasaki, and we've often had fundamental disagreements on how to play and what constitutes scummy. Khaan was actually a purely for fun choice because he claims he's a terrible townie. Well, if he hit a scumbag with my help, yay... maybe he will feel better about his townie-ness, or at least laugh about how absurd it was that someone actually died based on a silly point and wagon/destroy strategy.
What was my reaction to his bold leadership? I decided to follow. Which is significantly different from what I usually do, which is pick my own suspects and hope people follow me. This game has been tons of fun because I'm trying something different. What if I were mafia and someone had picked my partner? Wouldn't it have been very, very obvious that I wasn't bandwagoning my own partner, a change from other rounds? I'd end up being an immovable (without looking scummy) vote against my own team. And then me surviving the game is a nonexistent possibility, after my partner dies I'd be soon to follow. So it would have doomed my entire team. It's ridiculous for me to use this strategy as mafia, but no one has noticed that or factored that into their analysis. But then again no one truly understands me. As for Joooray thinking I should be given a break, all I've ever asked for is that I don't get Night One killed/investigated/roleblocked a dozen games in a row, which has been happening (and continued to happen, in Shadow Fort). That's all I ever asked for. That's all... vote me as you please. No cheese off my slice. I also said I didn't want to be treated with kid gloves, I said that explicitly. I can't control what Joooray does, though, or what he thinks. Frankly in this game I would have loved to have been murdered. It's a very strong tactic leaving me alive because then people, for some odd reason, analyze me like no one else, and I become the topic of discussion even when I am doing nothing but lazy, mindless bandwagoning all game long. I can't even have a normal game by playing like how other people do without being scrutinzed, but that's fine by me, whatever floats your boats.
In other games, especially in the past, I would have been very critical of bandwagoners. Well I've done that for over a year now, and it is getting stale. In a game with this simplistic setup, I believe there is a tactical advantage in creating a voting bloc the mafia alone cannot overcome. That way all our blunders will be town blunders. That last round with shlin, for example, was miserable. Shlin shouldn't have self-voted and we shouldn't have allowed it to stand at 3 votes to several with 2, but I think people weren't paying attention. I take it for granted that if people are going to try to have 2 or 3 votes put together every round that they should eventually die. Otherwise it becomes the easy strategy for the mafia to win the game. I'd expect that you wouldn't let me or Sasaki or Tincow actually survive after we take several shots at the mafia, but the underlying point of it all (speaking for myself only) is that the mafia would be dumb to try it because it will result in unavoidable death and it will invite criticism and it will piss people off. So what?
The point of the game is to analyze (that comes later, for me) to use strategy and tactics (I'm using a brand-new one for this game, for me) and to eventually win (as is my goal). But like I said, what reasoning have you for voting certain people? Other than the vague and highly likely to be wrong things like "I saw Pizza in the writeup, he must have did it to himself..." or "These sound like pevergreen and Kage's ideas for kills" we don't really have anything. And they are certainly very subjective, and quite possibly bad reasons. But, perhaps it is a long shot which may work... better than a random vote. A quick and subjective calculation of the odds tells me that Sasaki and TinCow are probably townies, and that this wagon strategy will annoy the mafia, and probably get either myself or them killed, which just adds extra credibility to either mine or their analysis in the endgame, where the mafia are the most vulnerable and exposed and the analysis is the most accurate.
That's my grand strategy, to get myself murdered and to prevent mafia control of the vote, or make it suicidal for the mafia to control it. Nothing fancy, and nothing I've ever tried before. That's as much thought as I've put into the game so far. IMO it is a simple and probably effective strategy. When I die, lynch or not, I will switch tactics to a more analytical style and do actual deep thinking. Until then, your fierce opposition to my chosen strategy this game means that there is a slight chance that I've rattled your cage and you want me lynched, but not murdered. As such, I think Sasaki's suggestion of your head was a good one. It's quite possibly wrong, this isn't an exact science.
