Community Guide

Town Strategy

Bodyguard

The key to bodyguard is similar to the doc: try to predict the nightkills each night or protect the most valuable target each night like a Sheriff or Mayor.

This means that you have to be good at predicting who's gonna get attacked, but when you do protect somebody the rewards are huge: you confirm someone as non-mafia (if you blocked the mafia nightkill), a scum dies, and you die; that's three confirmed alignments right there.

On night 1, try to pick 1 or a colored name. Those players are commonly targeted during the first night. Of course, make sure that you ignore night immunity, otherway you might die protecting scum, while if you ignore the immunity of killers, then you will get rid of a scum, even if you die protecting another.

If there's a confirmed town player, it's almost always the right play to be on them each Night. Also try to determine the patterns of kills - are scum trying to kill lurkers or active townies? Is the SK killing all players who picked a nam with a particular theme?

Another strong play with the bodyguard is to team up with a doctor and be on eacho ther every night. BG-Doc circles are especially powerful during the late game, as you have two town players that can't be killed during the night.