What a great job of that he did. Mind you he was spot on about everything else prior (though no doubt with the help of marcuss)
Killing him in the day made perfect sense given he was third party and not to be trusted, so taking out his vote was fine. I wouldn't have lynched him though as it left the whole game in Cevno's hands, who was a third party claiming to have townsided (i.e. just like Skippos). I'd have bitten the bullet and lynched Captain, the evidence was there.
Mariner was extremely suspect too, but he always is, so yeah. Captain played pretty well, he was just up against watertight evidence at the end.
Problem is, with themes, it can become very predictable who is in the game and so character claiming becomes lethal. But not being able to character claim leads to boredom or soft claiming anyway.
From my plans of Harry Potter mafia II: "- Remember that character claiming will be to your detriment (in the majority of cases). There are lots of people that want you dead. In some extreme cases, it will actually help the town more that you are lynched rather than a mafia objective is achieved. Keep that in mind. I have also removed two characters who may be considered key town members – I have informed the mafia as to the identity of these missing characters."
Don't think this game was too townsided at all. And there was no real roleclaiming till the last day IIRC. I killed 3 townies lol. Mafia should have just played better except 1/2 of them.
I think that's part of it but it's actually mainly due to town getting better. I mean we can all rage away at the odd mislynch and moan that town played it really badly but that stuff used to happen all the time. I remember one case in SW 1 where McGrath claimed a guilty report on Eddie and everyone lynched him immediately, without stopping to question who McGrath was, whether the reoprt might be dodgy or even letting Eddie speak. That would never happen now.