Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20171002223259/@comment-31920817-20171008213931

BaconCheesecake wrote: (Great name btw)

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  (actually Coven can use their team chat to their advantage aswell, with poisoner's poison being healed by a PM so he can claim doc or the CL asking the Medusa to stone gaze so she can control an important role to kill into the Medusa, bam gone), 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. (that is true but Coven can do the same thing)

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.(This is true but once the Coven get the necronomicon they can get some pretty devastating kills per night, and in ranked you are guraenteed a medusa which with some luck and a CL can be a good combination of roles, Coven also can get up to 3 kills a night and sometimes 0, which would equal out to about 1.5 KPN)

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. (Mafia do (for the most part) have good roles that they can claim to deceive the town into believing they are also townies, but Coven with the help of some of their fellow Coven members, can also claim roles pretty easily. Like previously mentioned PM healing a poisoner's poison)

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).