War



Declaring War

 * You can declare war on anyone that isn't in your mafia.
 * You can declare a war in your Fights tab by clicking on one of the random players that show up or click Declare War beside their name in the Fight tab.
 * You can then rally others to help you in your war by posting it to your profile and to the news feed. The person you go to war with can do the same, but since you are initiating the war, they usually don't get the time to call for help.
 * You and all those who come to the war can choose 1 person to attack. You do NOT spend any stamina doing this and the outcome of your attack is based on your skill points. If your attack skill is way higher than the target you're attacking you might do splash damage, which is damage that kills your original target and injures or kills another target from the "extra" attack power you deliver.
 * Your mafia can also rally help for your war. Even if people are not in your mafia, they can attack for or against you. (This feature is no longer applicable since the War system was re-vamped.)
 * A War can end in 2 different ways.
 * You defeated your opponents Top Mafia and him/her, or they defeat yours.
 * If not all opponents are defeated the person with the most kills wins the war after the timer runs out.
 * If you win, you receive 2 random war rewards you receive 1 known and 1 random war reward item based on what tier you are in and everyone who helps you gets a known war reward item.
 * You can also get revenge on those who fought against you by attacking, sucker punching or starting a war on them.
 * The "Mafia Size" indicator does not include any Hired Guns you have since Hired Guns aren't "real" mafia members and can't respond to the war request anyways. However, if you don't have a Top Mafia set up, the 6 defensive spots to protect you CAN be filled by Hired Guns.
 * Wars last 16 hours. Wars now last for 8 hours.
 * To declare war, you must have 6 mafia(does not include hired guns)

Helping in a war


You can also help others who have declared war. When they post on the news feed, you can click on it, then choose someone to attack. but where

New Declare War
"More Force, More Loot, More Help"

Skill-Based Damage : Your skill determines the damage that opponents suffer at your hand. You can wound them, take them out completely, and even cause splash damage, which is dealt to one opponent as the result of killing another!


 * War Skill Levels
 * [[File:Easy_icons.png]]Easy
 * [[File:Medium_icon.png]]Medium
 * [[File:Hard_icon.png]]Hard

 New Spoils of War : Collect new loot to get new Achievements!

Insta-Recruiting : Use Chat to ask friends who are currently online to come help you beat your opponents!

 COMING SOON Play Mob Doctor : Heal your friends who are wounded!

Achievement
You can earn 7 Achievements while doing Wars


 * Mwach_firstblood_75x75_01.png First Blood - Declare and win the war
 * Mwach_veteran_75x75_01.png Veteran - Participate in 500 wars
 * Mw_warlord_achievements.png Warlord 1 - Earned by obtaining all 1st tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements2.png Warlord 2 - Earned by obtaining all 2nd tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements3.png Warlord 3 - Earned by obtaining all 3rd tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements4.jpg Warlord 4 - Earned by obtaining all 4th tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements5.jpg Warlord 5 - Earned by obtaining all 5th tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements6.png Warlord 6 - Earned by obtaining all 6th tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements7.png Warlord 7 - Earned by obtaining all 7th tier War rewards
 * Mw_warlord_achievements8.png Warlord 8 - Earned by obtaining all 8th tier War rewards

Blog Post
"Brush up on Sun Tzu's The Art of War and grab your helmet. It's time to declare war on your enemies. We have updated the Declare War feature so that you go to war against rivals instead of your friends/frienemies. We have included 10 new awesome rewards and a new achievement that you can only get from winning wars. Here's how you go to war.

1. Make sure you have assigned your top 6 mafia members. You can do that by clicking the "My Mafia" tab and picking 6 friends to fill up those top slots. A friend's class (Fearless, Maniac, or Mogul) determines which position (ie Bodyguard, Bagman, Wheelman) you can promote them to.

2. Go to the Declare War page and pick an enemy to attack. Your war lasts 16 hours, and you can only declare one war each time.

3. Recruit your mafia to go to battle with you. The more friends that help you bring down your enemy, the better chance you have to win. Friends get "Helper rewards" if you win your war. Friends can help fight in as many wars as they want, but can only receive "Helper rewards" for the first 5 wars they contribute to.

4. Below are all the items you can win from Declare War. Earn all 16 Declare War rewards to gain the Warlord Achievement."

- Mafia Wars Blog

Blog Post
"Declaring war and helping your friends out with their wars is a great way to collect some awesome loot. Because the war loot is so awesome, we limit how much of it can be collected in a day to maintain game balance.

We have discovered that some of you have collected more than you should have. We will be reclaiming this extra war loot over the next few weeks. This will only effect non-giftable, tier 2, high-end war loot and above.

So, to recap: If you have collected more high-end loot from wars than you should have, we will be adjusting your quantity of that loot to what you should have earned within the appropriate limits."

- Mafia Wars Blog