Quote Originally Posted by Kommodus
Interesting how it was really the mafia families turning on each other that did them in. Sounds like you're right - a temporary truce would've been a better way to go.
It'd never work. To adequately work together, they'd have to know each other's membership, which would just make it a case of seeing who would stab the other in the back first. Also, once they knew who your members were, what would stop them from betraying you postmortem? The families were each other's enemies just as much as they were the town's.

Also, most of the original families members were dead for all but the Barzinis, so you have no way of knowing who the new members- if any- were. Made investigations were unreliable, considering the townie kill groups, a criminal result wouldn't mean mafia. On the subject of townie kill groups, I think it might've been an interesting idea to only allow them with approval from an existing family. Having townies able to get together on their own and kill enemies gives the town too much power imo. I dont think the town is supposed to be able to actively kill their enemies- they're supposed to use lynches.