I am not free enough to full rant
Flagged is Fool in practice
It makes night kills too risky to do freely
Berserk Wolf is hard counter, but Berserk gets 1 use
It’s more asymmetrical balance. Asymmetrical balance always sucks, but here more so because wolves are the vast underdog
I basically have like three golden rules for winning as a wolf:
1) At least one wolf claims seer (preferably) two and pushes info (real or fake)
2) ALL wolves have a DAY 1 public claim.
3) Protect the solos until the town is
beaten.
The town had good luck and this game probably ends in an evil loss, but it's not a wipeout if
ANY of the golden rules get followed.
There is always going to be a random draw aspect. Otherwise every single game would be the same, right? Instead of the town checking the berserk wolf night 1, maybe the wolves check and kill the flagger night 1. It's random.
I will say the wolves brought some of the night 1 bad luck upon themselves. Out of all the roles, where does Spirit Seer rank in terms of value? Doctor and Instigator are off the table since the instigated wolf would never let you vote them anyways.
My order or importance would look something like this (being RRV pushes a role's value down of course):
Conjuror
Flagger/Bully
Aura Seer
Violinist
Judge
RRV Spirit Seer
RRV Spirit Seer
Farmer
RRV Preacher
So you knowingly checked and killed one of the least valuable roles in the game. It's hard to win that way! If you just go random you have a 2/3 chance to kill someone who can do far more damage.
