Master Strategist 2019

[Scummies]

Archangelsk
Russian Federation
1993

The white knight lowered his lance, spurring his mount into a spectacular charge. The deadly combination of man, steed, and burnished steel barreled forward, flashing in the light of the sun at high noon. Enemy soldiers scattered like chaff in a hurricane before the menace of his approach, even one of his own yielding lest he be crushed beneath the flailing hooves or sheer momentum of his approach. Suddenly the knight burst through the fray into open space, wheeling as he took stock of the situation before him.

A beautiful damsel in distress! He cantered to his lady's side, the horse blowing and rearing as he pledged undying fealty and admiration to her. On his honor, the knight would give no less than his life and that of his loyal destrier, if only to preserve the fair maid's honor and security. The haughty look on the lady's face softened for the knight, and she plucked a scarf from her sleeve to offer as a favor to the valiant hero, willing to ride to certain death in her service. The knight, learned in the ways of courtly love, lowered his lance enough for her to tie the token around its wickedly-sharp steel tip. He bowed low to his liege lady before whirling off to find an opponent.

There! A black knight, as villainous and debauched as he was noble and pure. The enemy sighted him at nearly the same moment, and pumped his own lance in the air in challenge. The knights charged one another, but even the favor of the white lady proved inadequate before the onslaught of the cruel knight in black. The white knight's body was dragged from the field to be dumped unceremoniously among the heaped remains of slaughtered soldiers on both sides. Meanwhile, the white lady seized the opportunity provided by her champion's fall to ride forth in a straight line to chasten the enemy king directly.

"I believe," said Northsidegal, "That that is checkmate."

[Scummies]

Congratulations to the 2019 winner of the 'Master Strategist' award,

Northsidegal!

For her performance (as Brown Eyes) in Undertale Mafia!

This thread is now open.

[schadd_]

northsidegal

[the worst]

This is one of the most interesting town performances I've seen in a long time.

nsg rolled a (to put it simply) conditional triple dayvig which would trigger on the event scum got too many town kills, and tapped into certain powers too much. she was pretty widely townread day one, but when the gamestate tended towards scum overpowering the town, (and obviously having picked 3/4 of the scumteam), nsg allowed herself to slip under the radar a bit while still pushing the game in a positive direction.

One member of the scumteam had correctly identified her as a massive threat and lobbied to n1 her, but we were all so distracted by noisier townies that she was never a serious contender for the scum nightkill. This isn't a failing on her part. It was incredibly deliberate.

When the time came that her ability triggered, despite apparently having nailed 3 of the scumteam, she elected to shoot two scum and our most primed mislynch, and then out herself (having become effectively vanilla) and push to lynch the third scum, eating a nightkill in the process.

The gamestate was wrecked enough that it took a while for the town to listen. But they did, eventually. Both remaining scum had huge ability to endgame, and nsg's actions completely crippled the team's integrity.

This is a very rare situation of
- role pm effecting dayplay
- gamestate read effecting dayplay
- dayplay effecting mechanical play
- use of mech effecting ongoing dayplay
- across all of these, perfectly managing threat level

Congratulations, nsg. This is incredibly well deserved. By a huge margin one of the best plays from a single slot in my time onsite.


pedit: basically what schadd_ said.

[gobbledygook]

NSG for president

[Brown Eyes]

guess i'm pretty good at my job, huh?



Thanks to RC for randing me this once in a lifetime role and thanks to the rest of the town for bringing the game home when I couldn't. This would be a lot less notable if there weren't a win to follow it through, and I can only point to the rest of the town as for who made that happen.

[Ircher]

Congrats northsidegal!

[the worst]

guess i'm pretty good at my job, huh?

nooooo my scumteam >:

[Pink Ball]

guess i'm pretty good at my job, huh?



Thanks to RC for randing me this once in a lifetime role and thanks to the rest of the town for bringing the game home when I couldn't. This would be a lot less notable if there weren't a win to follow it through, and I can only point to the rest of the town as for who made that happen.

Fuck I forgot the edit of your avatar when all this shit happened that was AMAZING

Ugh this was such a great game. Congrats NSG, well deserved!

[OkaPoka]

This is one of the most interesting town performances I've seen in a long time.

nsg rolled a (to put it simply) conditional triple dayvig which would trigger on the event scum got too many town kills, and tapped into certain powers too much. she was pretty widely townread day one, but when the gamestate tended towards scum overpowering the town, (and obviously having picked 3/4 of the scumteam), nsg allowed herself to slip under the radar a bit while still pushing the game in a positive direction.

One member of the scumteam had correctly identified her as a massive threat and lobbied to n1 her, but we were all so distracted by noisier townies that she was never a serious contender for the scum nightkill. This isn't a failing on her part. It was incredibly deliberate.

When the time came that her ability triggered, despite apparently having nailed 3 of the scumteam, she elected to shoot two scum and our most primed mislynch, and then out herself (having become effectively vanilla) and push to lynch the third scum, eating a nightkill in the process.

The gamestate was wrecked enough that it took a while for the town to listen. But they did, eventually. Both remaining scum had huge ability to endgame, and nsg's actions completely crippled the team's integrity.

This is a very rare situation of
- role pm effecting dayplay
- gamestate read effecting dayplay
- dayplay effecting mechanical play
- use of mech effecting ongoing dayplay
- across all of these, perfectly managing threat level

Congratulations, nsg. This is incredibly well deserved. By a huge margin one of the best plays from a single slot in my time onsite.


pedit: basically what schadd_ said.

Good post i like reading these type of posts we need more of these type of posts

[Skygazer]

def not salty

omg congrats ! ! ! !

[RadiantCowbells]

WPWPWP

[Bitmap]

Congrats NSG!

[popsofctown]

I don't think I voted this category but I like how measurable the efficacy of the winner is here

[Krazy]

thank u for turning the only team rwby game into a win nsg <3