Why do evils hang veteran first?

[syjfwbaobfwl]

Note: idk if this goes here or in discussion section, pls move it to the apropiate zone



Probably all of you have been in a game where evils get majority and start hanging townies

They usually hang the most dangerous, jailor, vigi, trans, vet etc

The thing is, why do they hang vet first?

Sometimes they hang vet over a bg or a escort with no exes, vet cant do anything while bg and esc can stop a kill


Why is it even a high-priority role? If you know who the vet is, why not just avoid them?

It may be a dumb question but it just made me curious

[CapWarrior2]

I mean I do it just incase as it eliminates room for failure.

(Some people's capacity to make well decided choices is low)

[cob709]

because suicide into vet to find tt strat

[syjfwbaobfwl]

because suicide into vet to find tt strat

Yeah im talking about ranked or AA, or any mode other than TT

[kyuss420]

I usually see vet being last to hang... or close to it.

The only reason I can think of, is that vet is usually confirmed.... and having a confirmed player in game means town is harder to sheep, and less chance of a mislynch, especially in AA where another evil faction may be secretly lurking

[Brilliand]

To my mind, you may as well lynch the Veteran the first time you want to lynch a townie and have no preference which - because you know already that you're going to be killing the Veteran with a lynch, not with a night kill. Considering lynches as a limited resource, there's no risk of "wasting" that resource by lynching the Veteran, because you're going to lynch him sooner or later anyway.

Granted the only penalty for letting the Veteran be the last to die is possibly making the game take 2 minutes longer than it needed to.

[Emily372]

Because if the veteran alerts, the evildoers could die to the vet. Furthermore, if a Godfather, Mafioso, Potion Master, Poisoner, or Serial Killer tries to kill the veteran, they will be unable to kill the veteran and will be killed instead. Vigilante has a similar situation, but unlike GF, Mafioso, PM, Poison, and SK, Vigi is town-aligned. The Werewolf, However, can still kill the veteran even if the Veteran alerts.
A somewhat similar story occurs for Jailors and Mayors. Evildoers will try to kill Jailors and Mayors ASAP.

[Joacgroso]

You can kill any other threat at night, but veterans are better off lynched so you don't risk dying. Even if there is a bg, evils can just kill him at night. At worst he will delay his death for one night.

[Jerme]

Do not necrobump, thanks.
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