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'''wlf-071''' was an August 2019 13-player (10 village, 3 wolfpack) [[Online Werewolf]] game in which [[Leucosticte]], as village [[militia]] MaryWatson, tried an experimental and controversial tactic of claiming as militia in the closing moments of Day 1 and indicating his intent to shoot fellow player ClaudeRavache on Night 1, as a way of proving his role and village alignment.

==Background==
Prior to this game, Leu had researched the history of [[N0 vig shot]]s in wlf- games, and found that in the three games in which this had been tried, wlf-024, wlf-038, and wlf-045, a wolf (a shapeshifter, a bloodletter, and a bloodhound, respectively) had been hit. Also, in two out of three of those games, a village victory had occurred. However, the shot had not been announced by militia beforehand.

ClaudeRavache was chosen as a target due to her having appeared at the top of the player list. This character, who had the [[Diseased]] role, was played by [[Diamond_Dove]], who happened to have also been killed in their prior game, wlf-068, on N1 by the wolfpack of which Leu was a member.

==Events==
Multiple players explicitly expressed objections to this militia shot:
:2019-Aug-19 08:04:04	JamesMoriarty	For wasting a valuable Militia shot and could be an Alpha

:2019-Aug-19 08:05:31	SebastianMoran	They're either a militia useless enough to waste their shot, or an opportunistic alpha.

:2019-Aug-19 08:38:40	JohnWatson	I think doing shit to 'live' is a bad play

:2019-Aug-19 08:59:30	LordBlackwood	You could have shot the Protector or Diseased though...

:2019-Aug-19 11:27:37	Dredger	We don't have any other militia, so to use it was a bit risky

:2019-Aug-19 18:55:10	MrsHudsonMary's actions are irritating
:2019-Aug-19 18:55:15	MrsHudsonshooting blind, if she did, is ...
:2019-Aug-19 18:55:25	MrsHudsonnot pro-village in my opinion

Of these commenters, JamesMoriarty, SebastianMoran, JohnWatson, LordBlackwood, and Dredger were village, while MrsHudson was wolfpack. Vanilla KarlHoffmanstahl, [[Alphawolf]] Gladstone, and [[Bloodhound]] RobertCecil did not voice any objections, although RobertCecil did say on D4, in response to Mary's change of vote from SebastianMoran to him,

:2019-Aug-21 12:54:09 		RobertCecil 	Mary : as fast as switching meta as she's pulling militia trigger 

Additional setbacks to the village faction were that LordCoward, played by experienced player [[SavvySteve]], was also killed on N1; that on N2, LordBlackwood, the [[Lycan]], was lynched because of a wolf check by [[Seer]] JohnWatson; that seer JohnWatson was killed on N3; and that on N4, vanilla KarlHoffmanstahl was mislynched.

The game ended with wolves achieving 3-3 parity with the N4 mislynch.

Post-game, critique of the N1 militia shot continued.

Mods opted not to include militia in subsequent games wlf-072 and wlf-073.

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