Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2021 2:15 am
First thing I'm doing in my review this morning is reading T3.
If I had to draw conclusions from T3's iso, I'd say it leads me to think Hockey is town, Hectic is town, and Enchant is scum.
The very first thing T3 tries to do in game is clear Enchant. He hard townreads the slot early (11, 16, 27) and then doesn't make too many comments about it thereafter (townreads him again in 299). Townreading Enchant is hard to do in this game (imo) and he never justifies it.
He defends Hockey pretty consistently in the thread, listing him as a top-tier townread just about every time. I'm not saying it's a pocket attempt (though there could be some of that - 137 f'rex), rather that it could be whiteknighting to gain towncred. It's not super-obvious WKing though, as Hockey wasn't under tons of pressure. Townreading Hockey rings more genuine than townreading Enchant because he's able to actually make the case for Hockey. It's possible Hockey and T3 are teamed and the interactions between them are theatre (Hockey bristles at a pocket attempt in 233) but it just doesn't strike me that way.
As for Hectic, his scumread of that slot is tied up with his defense of Hockey and I'll grant I might be doing mental gymnastics to TR them both, but this is how I get there:
T3 knows all of our alignments.
If I accept that Hockey is town, and T3 is gonna defend that slot for cred, then
Pushing town!Hectic for pushing town!Hockey becomes a credible ploy for a mis-shoot on Hectic with a defense after the fact of "well, he was attacking somebody who's basically locktown for me"
And it's possible T3 comes out of a mis-shoot on Hectic looking not particularly scummy in that hypothetical.
(I am realizing, after typing this, that this line of thought leans toward town!Hectic even if Hockey were scum.)
Consider also that as the pressure mounts and T3 looks like a likelier shot, he locks in and doubles down on scum!Hectic. I don't think scum, in a position under pressure, is just gonna try to shunt pressure off onto another scum slot. Worst case: it doesn't work and nothing is achieved, best case: it buys them a day and we get to weigh whether their arguments were genuine or whether they *knew* scum was scum, which keeps them under focus.
It can be dangerous to try and sort out when scum is lying and when they're being truthful because it benefits them, so I'm not calling the game based on this, but these are my strongest gutreads from T3.
If I had to draw conclusions from T3's iso, I'd say it leads me to think Hockey is town, Hectic is town, and Enchant is scum.
The very first thing T3 tries to do in game is clear Enchant. He hard townreads the slot early (11, 16, 27) and then doesn't make too many comments about it thereafter (townreads him again in 299). Townreading Enchant is hard to do in this game (imo) and he never justifies it.
He defends Hockey pretty consistently in the thread, listing him as a top-tier townread just about every time. I'm not saying it's a pocket attempt (though there could be some of that - 137 f'rex), rather that it could be whiteknighting to gain towncred. It's not super-obvious WKing though, as Hockey wasn't under tons of pressure. Townreading Hockey rings more genuine than townreading Enchant because he's able to actually make the case for Hockey. It's possible Hockey and T3 are teamed and the interactions between them are theatre (Hockey bristles at a pocket attempt in 233) but it just doesn't strike me that way.
As for Hectic, his scumread of that slot is tied up with his defense of Hockey and I'll grant I might be doing mental gymnastics to TR them both, but this is how I get there:
T3 knows all of our alignments.
If I accept that Hockey is town, and T3 is gonna defend that slot for cred, then
Pushing town!Hectic for pushing town!Hockey becomes a credible ploy for a mis-shoot on Hectic with a defense after the fact of "well, he was attacking somebody who's basically locktown for me"
And it's possible T3 comes out of a mis-shoot on Hectic looking not particularly scummy in that hypothetical.
(I am realizing, after typing this, that this line of thought leans toward town!Hectic even if Hockey were scum.)
Consider also that as the pressure mounts and T3 looks like a likelier shot, he locks in and doubles down on scum!Hectic. I don't think scum, in a position under pressure, is just gonna try to shunt pressure off onto another scum slot. Worst case: it doesn't work and nothing is achieved, best case: it buys them a day and we get to weigh whether their arguments were genuine or whether they *knew* scum was scum, which keeps them under focus.
It can be dangerous to try and sort out when scum is lying and when they're being truthful because it benefits them, so I'm not calling the game based on this, but these are my strongest gutreads from T3.