Quote Originally Posted by johnhughthom View Post
Scrutinise away, my lack of imagination makes it difficult for me to get involved fully in a game where I don't receive a role pm, hence my level of input.


If the only people who are active and engaged in the thread are people with pro-town roles, then there is no cover for them to hide in, and they have to lead the effort themselves. Basic townies are the backbone of the entire town effort. They are often the most important role. Think of them as the bodyguards of the President, they take a bullet for the important people. But if they don't take on some kind of leadership role (even if it is just the blind leading the blind) then the only people leading will be the people we don't want killed off at night. And, the mafia will be able to easily blend in, and only show up when they need to nudge us in the wrong direction. Some of my better picks and better tactics have been executed when I was a basic townie. It gives me the freedom to be extra accusatory, even when it will result in my death when I am wrong.

One tactic the townsfolk might use is to lynch the person who first accused the person who gets lynched, thus the only lynches will be done by actual townsfolk, and the mafia might be too timid to accuse someone. That should shut them up or at least put them in danger when they make their scummy accusations.

I would offer more, but I don't want to come off sounding like I think I know it all; I just mean to say, we HAVE to be creative as basic townies, and we have to get engaged and we absolutely MUST pay attention and be involved, or else what happens is... we are easily manipulated, our lynches are much worse, and we eventually lose the game.

These first few round lynches aren't throwaway lynches, these are our safest lynches. There's enough people where we can easily bandwagon and smash a mafia to death, and also easily change our mind when we are wrong, and if we are wrong, it isn't the end of the game. This is where we have to be both creative and aggressive, in my opinion.