Keeping these definitions in mind, particularly the second sentences--In post 0, LicketyQuickety wrote:Strategic: Strategic planning emphasizes making goals analyzing the future. In Strategic planning, goals remain the same and methods change.
Tactical: Tactical planning emphasizes making goals analyzing the present. In Tactical planning, methods remain the same and goals change.
For scum you want both, and most people underrate tactical mindsets. I mean, yes, you want to pressure five people to claim and go out on limbs to keep your scumpartners alive, but a lot of the time - especially when you only draw scum under "disadvantageous conditions" - the path to doing so is either infeasible or carries a strong risk of getting pulled down yourself. Under those circumstances, knowing how and when to adapt without holding onto a position that seems indefensible or inevitable is a Good Thing. Most people should already know this, so stop underrating the scum ground game.
For Town you want a strategic mindset. It's called "knowing what you're doing", and it's my favorite advanced play technique. Whatever it is you post should always have a purpose, even if it's not stated. Otherwise you're wasting time and needlessly opening yourself up to attack. Playing tactically as Town makes you one more dumbass Townie who obstinately flails at the other players and then shrugs postgame about how their preferred method of rolling the dice didn't work out. This only really works if you're Fate and you're here to Trump the site meta.