Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171002223259/@comment-32848622-20171008212559

Team Mafia

Now, I think both of teams are interesting and fun in their own ways, I think Mafia is my favourite due to how your actions affect your team more and the chances of winning the game.

Unlike Coven, who all go off and do their own things each night, The Mafia uses their team chat more to their advantage. For example, the killing roles will need to talk to the deception roles each to figure other if they need to forge/clean, or the Consigliere will need to talk to the others about what they should do with the person they just found out is the unrevealed mayor.

Also unlike Coven(who will most likely get a role that can't kill until Nerconomicon), Mafia is guaranteed to have a killing role all game, and will probably get a kill every night unless they hit an immune.

Also claiming roles could be either much easier, or much harder than Coven roles depending on the role you got. For example, claiming Escort as a Consort is an easier claim unless there's a spy saying that you visited [person number] that night and they claimed roleblocked; or claiming Investigator as Consigliere is also pretty easy claim that most towns believe.

Lastly, deception is much easier for Mafia than for Coven due to the fact that there are 11 roles for Mafia(5 of them are deception), compared to the 6 roles of coven(only 2 of which you can classify as deception).