Mafia IX: Triumph of the Mafia [Concluded]

[Renata]

I think GH hit the nail on the head with the "skate by in the early game = no defense in endgame". The strategies that work well for mafia in the first 7 rounds look like...well, strategies that work well for mafia, when looked at in retrospect.

Yeah, for all that I got it embarrassingly wrong on Subotan, this is exactly correct. People who play like Subotan did tend to wind up dead in the second half of most games. If for no other reason (and there are other reasons) than because the more vocal players usually disagree on each others' guilt or innocence, but they all agree that the semi-lurkers are inherently suspicious.

Thank you once more for the entertaining game, GH, for the AWESOME writeups (the 'Khaan lynch should be bronzed for posterity or something), and also for the thoughtful post-game. Hope I get to play another one some time.

[Kagemusha]

Thanks for the great commentary GH!Like i have said times and times again. I enjoy thoroughly reading your commentaries. These small peeks inside the brains of others are extremely valuable. I know i was personally off the mark the whole game, but this game was a great lesson for me to return to the basics of my game and not to become too focused on high profile players.

[Andres]

Great write-up, GH

I shoud apologise because I was not very active in this game. Several reasons for that: RL forces me to have other priorities due to certain circumstances is one reason, but I'll admit that being killed N1 me off a lot. I had decided not to join Shadow Fort, which seems to have been an excellent game, because it appeared to me that it would be as time consuming as the Capo games; so I was very pleased to see this good ol' vanilla Mafia to join. Looking forward to a game only to find out you're killed N1 is a turn off. Somebody needs to go N1 of course, but did it have to be *this* game? Cruel fate.

When the frustration of being killed N1 was gone, the game had advanced too much to catch up for me.

So, my apologies for my lack of participation in this one

[Thermal]

I read it all, nice commentary.

Somewhere around end game I remember voting for a low key player as most of them were dead (so why weren't the remaining low key players?) but chaotix and subotan considered this, by keeping say psychonaut in with subotan in the end game, without sasaki sussing subotan out he could have had a good chance as psychonaut and maybe W&F would be in a similar situation.

[Chaotix]

Great commentary, GH!

I was going to post something long and profound, but Subo beat me to the punch.

Nonetheless, it was a great game, and I agree with just about everything he said. Near the endgame, it got hard to pick kills.