Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27398195-20200121233049/@comment-27398195-20200123182835

205.237.153.138 wrote: I don't know why so many people keep rating the mafioso high, he's just the godfathers meat puppet, if you have no godfather and a mafioso you might as well have just got one of the worst mafia roles because it is just a worse godfather in EVERY WAY, maybe if Godfather was confirmed for maf anytime maf exists in game but that's not it. My way of thinking is this:

A rolled mafioso with no Godfather is USELESS, because while you could have had a Godfather instead now you have the objectively worse one. You haven't had a game where the only killing role gets RBed/Jailed N2 and the town just rapidly RBs the GF while they slowly hunt down the other mafia members?

That's the point of the mafioso and why he's rated so high. He prevents that stuff except in a very rare situation, but in that case more likely than not town is probably gonna assume you hit immune than them blocking GF+Mafioso. And if they assume they blocked both you were dead anyways.

Also vigilante isn't the worst claim in the world, gives you a few days. 2/3 odds say that NE is going to have immunity so it's not like you'll have to instantly shoot the NE to confirm. Also if you wanna get REALLY tricky you can claim Veteran and hope that it's more likely because mafioso would claim vigilante.