In post 384, implosion wrote:
There's a world where
361 is dragon + one of DV/Klick as scum and Dragon sees an excuse to try to replace the double-scum coalition that's been building with a single-scum coalition. That would also mirror my play in the scum coalition game I mentioned. In that sense that when the game was going well, I went a bit out of my way to try to get the other scum off of the coalition (when that plan failed, I had to bus them on the first lim).
hm. this was like exactly the thought i had when i saw that post. interesting
it felt very much like a pivot to establish a better gamestate
but i kind of dismissed it because i don't really read dv or klick as scum. both feel towny to me. which made me start to wonder if my read on dragon was wrong, because i didn't really see a scum motivation behind him making that post, despite it feeling like it was part of a plan
but now part of me wonders if it was intended to be read that way by a dragon/implo team. in that world, they would probably be worried about how both of them seemed too okay with the coalition (dragon in, implo out) going through. the thing with coalition setup is that the scum in the coalition almost never endgames. and i know implo as scum likes to plan ahead paths to victory, and i think dragon does too. so knowing that dragon would likely eventually flip, planting this here makes it look like dragon is unhappy with the gamestate and wants to shake things up -- which points away from implosion and towards DV or klick
im not sure if that's like too elaborate of a plan, idk, my predictions of that sort of thing aren't always accurate. but it does feel like dragon has this energy throughout the game where he feels like he wants to be doing more, taking more control, forcing the gamestate into places he wants it to go. and he's presenting that as a town mindset, but if he is scum, then i think that kind of energy could manifest in making plays like this. i recognize it because i think i have that kind of energy as scum a lot, where i want to keep doing more and keep setting things up and improving the position
