Quick thoughts.
Huge Townie Win.
Congrats. The successful vote-out of Vudu seemed to hasten things greatly and put everyone on a roll. I think this is the fastest Townie Victory ever recorded so congrats again to all involved.
Some good things obviously worked in their favor. Because Vudu was the vote changer, it helped on day 2 when there was a tie. If Nickmitch was the vote changer, the mafia probably would have taken the chance to change a vote and win the tie but they didn't have that ability.
Plus, by keeping the vote small, a few townie were able to cash in big on points. With the hidden-role mafia member gone, the townies could easily narrow down the choice of who to investigate with their points.
It's a shame the mafia didn't try to recruit someone earlier. Obviously, there was the fear of choosing the wrong player but I'm not sure what the mafia hoped to do otherwise.
Townies also came close to the first ever perfect win. With the Acadamy option, 3 players got have used their points, bought in and brought back Thatguy making the game perfect of all townies left and all mafia gone. However, when the players with the most points accumulated started doing investigations, I didn't bother to mention the possibility for this evening. Sorry Thatguy.
It's a shame that we didn't get to dig deeper into the points system. That said, I welcome your thoughts on the idea and for those that were around when I called them Warbucks, how did you think this compared? Likes, dislikes, etc.
Finally, I must admit a broke a long standing rule of mine and selected one player for a certain role. That was Vudu for the Pony Killer. Looking back now, I wonder if that didn't decide the whole game right there. But I did it for a couple reasons. Vudu's joke about wanting a Pony. I didn't think anyone would guess that I gave him the role since making up the title would seem to be enough. But also because it was Vudu who suggested the idea of a mafia having no godfather. So, I wanted him to at least be mafia to see what he thought of his idea. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if this was much of a test. Vudu also had a couple other idea's I'll post in a moment.
Finally, I just want to remind and invite everybody back for the next mafia game. It's going to have some big prizes and Thatguy and myself really want to try and put on the ultimate AAA mafia game. We'd really like to make it a big party and hope it will be a blast. With this game going so quickly, I don't think we are going to wait long before launching it, so get ready.
Thanks for playing!