Umlaut

Prefer to be a Pro-Mafia Player.

I'm just this guy, you know?

I'm a longtime player and a relative newbie all at once. I started playing Mafia when it was introduced to my old message board by mith himself, before MS was even a thing. But I played maybe 4-5 games total there, quit years ago, and only started playing again on MS in 2015.

I consider myself a better scum player than a town player, probably because I'm better at being townread than I am at actually forming correct reads and being scum relieves me of the need to do the latter. This is something I'm working on.

As of March 2017, I have never been lynched on MafiaScum, and never been mislynched in any game of forum Mafia anywhere. Personally I don't think this should be read into too much, but it's still fun to mention.

My played games

Newbie 1661
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Newbie	Zaicon	Mafia	Roleblocker	Started	Survived	Mafia Win
Rolled a scum PR for my first game ever on MS. While I played well, I think we owe most of our success to the town cop, who deliberately acted sketchy on D1, quickhammered town, then claimed at the very start of D2, which claim was widely greeted with skepticism. My partner zeevo's counterclaim sealed Blackstar's mislynch, put the game on rails straight up to 3-player lylo, and made it easy for me to blend in with no real decisions to be made except whom to shoot. I do give myself style points for endgaming the IC.

Newbie 1668: Welcome to the Mafias
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Newbie	Firebringer	Town	Vanilla Townie	Started	Survived	Town Win
Town lynched scum D1, no thanks to me. After both PRs softclaimed on D2 without anyone counterclaiming, the game was pretty much an auto-win for town, though Almost50 managed to be hard-townread by nearly everyone in the game for a long time and probably would have won if not for having had such bad luck early on.

Blitz 11: Pick Your Power X/Y
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Blitz	Rob13	Town	Cop	Started	Shot Night 3	Town Win
First in the draft order, hell yeah! With the exception of a few standout players, most of the town did pretty poorly. This seemed like a likely scum win from very early on. But Pisskop, via his awful reads and lazy attitude, managed to fly under the radar until 5p lylo, at which point he suddenly smartened up dramatically and not only correctly identified the remaining scum but correctly identified one as vengeful, allowing town to lynch in the correct order and win. I'm still not sure whether his earlier play was an act or not. I managed to crumb my clears well enough, but they were pretty obvtown by the time I died anyway. I was aided in surviving as long as I did by Hinduragi, who knew my role due to the setup and fake-slipped to draw the kill.

Blitz 15: Monks and Masons in Serona II
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Blitz	fferyllt	Town	Mason	Started	Shot Night 1	Werewolf Win
I was V/LA for much of the first day and the entire first night, so I really didn't get to do much other than say "Hi, fellow mason" and then die. My one major scumread of Day 1 turned out to be town, so.

Open 645: C9++
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Open	Not_Mafia	Mafia	Goon	Started	Shot Night 2	Mafia Win
I was townread by most of the town, but not by a plain farmer, who turned out to be the vigilante. Ironically, we blocked Farmer from shooting the doctor on N1, giving him a second chance, which he used to shoot me. Then the next day he caught our roleblocker Bins in a lie and all but proved she was scum. Zachstralkita didn't want to hear it, though, and pushed a mislynch at mylo on a player who should have been confirmed town by my interactions with him.

Newbie 1719: Volcanic Mafia
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Newbie	SirCakez	Town	Jailkeeper	Started	Survived	Town Win
I pushed two mislynches and hard-defended scum, even inadvertently helping him to fakeclaim, which made me the obvious suspect after he effectively outed himself at the end of D2. I was saved by the setup and by the lack of a counterclaim when I outed myself. Aquanim was town MVP, replacing in late, making himself obvtown, and correctly arguing for my innocence and BrainpanSonata's guilt; but ultimately this was a lucky win.

Micro 634: Wolf Hunt
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Micro	SnarkySnowman	Town	2-Shot Commuter	Started	Survived	Town Win
We lynched the first wolf by pure luck on d1, in a manner that all but confirmed me as town and made it very easy to PoE the remaining scum.

Micro 635: 09:12
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Micro	shaddowez	Town	Vanilla Townie	Started	Survived	Town Win
I correctly identified A Simple Plan as scum from the start of the game, but it took a failed fakeclaim at mylo to get the town to go along with me. This was convenient, as I probably would have been a viable mislynch if I couldn't point to my consistent pushes on ASP as counterevidence.

Micro 639: Noughts and Crosses Blitz
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Micro	Firebringer	Town	Vanilla Townie	Started	Shot Night 2	Mafia Win
This setup encourages townhunting over scumhunting, but despite that most of us (myself included) correctly identified the scum on Day 1, as well as correctly identifying a winning strategy based. At the very end, however, paranoia got the best of lane0168 and he mislynched. It happens to all of us sometimes.

Open 654: Surrealism
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Open	Creature	Mafia	Goon	Started	Mauled Night 1	Werewolf Win
First run of a new multiball setup based on Matrix6; I felt it was balanced enough in the end, though obviously it will take more runs to decide. The town never lynched a single werewolf or mafioso, but might well have won anyway if Dunnstral had followed his instinct to shoot Zachstralkita at the right time.

Newbie 1740: MS Pain
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Newbie	Creature	Town	Vanilla Townie	Day 2	Shot Night 4	Mafia Win
Replaced into a slot at L-1, but this was mostly for inactivity. Successfully pushed a lynch on one goon, then used a truly beautiful statistical analysis of his posts to convince myself and everyone else that Lil Uzi Vert was his partner. Too bad I was completely wrong. Lesson learned: test new techniques before employing them in an ongoing game.

Mini 1858: Aeronaut's Drunken Christmas Party
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Mini Theme	Aeronaut	Town	Stephen King (Cop)	Day 1	Killed Night 2	Town Win
The Mafia was completely destroyed; three lynched in three days. Sickofit11138 the SK survived a bit longer, being lynched d5 for the win. I outed myself D1 in response to a fakeclaim (by a townie, go figure), but managed to survive a night and come out with a guilty on Pine. The game used a new mechanic in which the dead thread controlled one vote between them. As such, when I was killed N2 with another guilty, on Sick, that vote ended up locked there for the rest of the game. This probably didn't have much effect on the outcome, all told.

Micro 667: Chosen Mafia
Type	Moderator	Faction	Role	Entry	Fate	Outcome
Micro	ChaosOmega	Town	Townie	Day 2	Survived	Town Win
Replaced the lurkiest of all lurkers under some minor suspicion, to find that PsychoticDave had already provably fakeclaimed and somehow Human Sequencer was the only one who cared. Once we lynched him, the Mafia was all but forced by the setup to stop shooting in order to have any hope of winning. TTTT made a strong effort but I don't think anything could have saved him, given that the two chosen townies were also the two most obvtown players in the game.

My modded games

Open 661: Pick Your Poison
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Open	13	Day 5	Town
The Mafia had a rough start, with one of them being lynched Day 1 and confirmed town popping up at a dangerous rate, but culted managed to carry through to 3-player lylo and very nearly won the game.

Micro 691: Just Mafia
Type	Players	Game ended on	Winner(s)
Micro	9	Day 2	Town
Complete shutout; the town lynched the scum PR day 1 and then the jailkeeper successfully jailed the remaining goon overnight. Kind of a disappointing outcome after a full week spent tweaking the balance with the NRG.