The thing is it doesn’t always happen. People are generally suspicious of Knight/CW claims, but they might give them the benefit of the doubt. This isn’t for the Merc’s benefit, it’s for the Sellsword/Ritualist’s.
Yes to mercenary, no to occupation/redirection. There’s nothing wrong with butler/drunk learning if their target is immune. This prevents them from occupying the same occupy immune player. And butler needs a buff, not a nerf.
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Here’s how I look at it.You’re doing this change for Sellsword and Ritualist’s benefit.Here’s the thing.If BD wastes a day hanging you then they are not hanging the MM or the CL.If they’re dead then you probably lost if you name a scenario when you want the MM to die instead of the Sellsword the I will concede the point.
Butler can help but it can also hurt.It can stop investigations and guards.It can defend itself and it is pretty useful for ensuring your survival but it doesn’t do much as if you aren’t attacked it doesn’t do anything and doesn’t let investigative know you occupied them.Also it doesn’t investigate it is literally told your target was immune to occupation.You can use social deduction to try and guess who the Killer is.Ever Bd can do this.You could claim CW barrier or Hunter,or Butler,or Drunk.It’s all up to you.
Also butlers may not want to go through with that information as they might expose the prince.
Yeah, you generally want to kill the MM before the Sellsword. But you still want to kill the other Unseen, you need to in order to win. And if I don’t know who the MM is but I know who the Sellsword is, I am most certainly going to kill them. Just because MM isn’t the preferred thing to kill, doesn’t mean I won’t do it in lack of more pressing issues. Same goes with the Cult Leader.
Merc is not confirmable, he is only confirmable if his target is confirmable
You can claim merc to your mm if you want
In practice, evils lying to cover for each other almost never happens, because it risks having two people outed if one of them gets caught, which is often GG (and it increases the attention investigatives pay to them, specifically because the potential of catching two people at once is so tempting.) I always write down “X defended Y” in my will when that happens.
And if they’re going to lie to cover each other, Mercenary is a really bad claim because you will have to choose a new target if your first one dies, and will be instantly outed if your second target dies.
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You should note that the MM is the one exception. I always defend the Mastermind to the death if he needs it to survive because if he dies then we’ve already lost
Note: There are exeptions such as where it is late enough for me to win anyways or if it would do more harm then good because my defense would fail.
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