alex1234321 wrote:In the vast majority of cases, shooting a revealed Mayor as Vigilante is considered to be gamethrowing. Usually, it is only considered a valid play if that Mayor is gamethrowing or is extremely bad. But I was thinking about situations where it's actually a viable strategy to shoot the Mayor and no gamethrowing/really bad play is involved. Let's say that it's a 3v1 and there's a revealed Mayor. Other than that, nobody knows anyone else's role, but there are no TP claims. I know this would almost never happen in a real game, but it's supposed to be hypothetical. In most cases, the Mafia would kill the Mayor. If you shoot the Mayor, you're usually not going to cause any additional deaths, and the game is going to end the next day so guilt isn't an issue. The benefit of doing this is that now you're a confirmed Townie. Assuming that the players randomly lynch one of the unconfirmed players, the Town's chances of winning just increased from 33% to 50%. I'm not sure if this outweighs the risk of the Mafia killing someone else, but it is a possible strategy.
Does anyone else have any situations where it may be a viable strategy to shoot a revealed Mayor as Vigilante?
Problem with this
It is always a 50/50. because you know that you are town. Now you have confirmed that theres a vigi 2 things can happen:
- Maf claims vigi first, or CCs you. Remaining townie that hasnt claimed till a 2v1 has a 50/50 to decide which Vigi claim is the real deal.... good luck with that
- Maf has a different claim ready. You are confirmed. You now have a 50/50 to decide which townie is the dumb one that hasnt claimed until a 2v1. (no chance to go for draw if youre wrong)
Or you dont take the shot, maf kills mayor -
-Theres a 50/50 chance the other townie will vote with you ; )
Worst case scenario:
Maf realises a 2v1 with mayor wont be much different from a 2v1 with any other 2 town roles, it just going to be a 50/50 on who mayor decides to lynch. It just depends on which player the maf thinks he can sheep. Or if he can put sus on the non claiming townie.... I mean, if mayor is dumb, as maf, youre better off keeping him alive if he can be swayed into thinking the other guy is maf.
- In this case Maf win, and vigi gets reported for throwing.
kosmo16 wrote:Yes. You shoot mayor without announcing the shot in this scenario:
Only Godfather left. Claims are Vigilante, Veteran, Doctor (confirmed), Mayor. Godfather(Veteran claim) kills mayor along with you and instead of 50/50 you win 100%. I would say it is low risk.
- GF kills doc, weighing up whether doc has a self heal left or not... Mayor is left to decide between a vig (with 3 bullets remaining??? or ''I only hit immunes'') and a vet claim (that never killed while on alert?)..... as long as he kills a confirmed role and leaves 2 sus af claims standing, its a 50/50 (But we all know maf is going for the mayor) From maf POV its not any different whether doc or mayor makes the decision on who to lynch (the dumber the player, the better)....maf is always voting you and you are always voting maf.