Mafia Wars – The Moscow Expansion « Mafia Wars Tips and Strategy Blog

Mafia Wars – The Moscow Expansion

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Sep/090

Recently Zynga announced the imminent introduction of the Mafia Wars Moscow expansion. This announcement comes as a welcome relief to those of us who have been playing Mafia Wars for a long period of time. Many have migrated away from the game because there is only so much fun that one can derive from completing missions over and over after reaching the top.

What will our passage into the old Soviet Block bring to the mix? Zynga gave us our first introduction to the Moscow expansion on Wednesday, August 26th in the form of a celebration message. This message told us that we needed to collect 8 items by doing any missions in the current game to find 8 special Moscow items. When we found all 8 we would unlock an exclusive item.

Here is a list of the 8 Moscow expansion items and the exclusive reward for getting them all.

Weapons

.45 ACP Pistol (18 attack, 12 defense)
Dragunov – (36 attack, 14 defense)
Grach (20 attack, 10 defense)
IZH-35m (28 attack, 15 defense)
PPSH 41 Submachine Gun (22 attack, 8 defense)
VSK-94 Sniper Rifle (28 attack, 12 defense)

Armor

Ushanka (10 attack, 20 defense)

Vehicles

Impression (15 attack, 35 defense)

Exclusive Item Reward

Shturmovik – Armor (45 attack, 28 defense)

While I am sure that other found all 8 items, I had no luck. After easily finding 7 of 8 on the first day of the celebration on all of my accounts I tried in vain up until midnight of August 31st to find the last one. Maybe it was dumb luck but I did not find the last item on any of my accounts. I did as many missions as possible by dropping down to the Thug tier and doing the “Collect Protection Money” job over and over.

Like I said it was probably dumb luck and I would love to hear some comments from you on the subject. Maybe there was someone as unlucky as myself.

I do like the way Zynga incorporated real world loot items.

The Dragunov is actually a real world sniper rifle (dragunov.net).

Grach is one of the newest standard issue military side arms.

IZH-35m is a .22 cal. Target pistol originally introduced to the market in 1979 (imzcorp.com).

PPSH 41 Submachine Gun is real Soviet weapon (ppsh41.com)

VSK-94 Sniper Rifle is a 9 mm silenced rifle that was a low cost alternative and is based on the 9A-91 assault rifle.

Ushanka is the typical fur lined hat worn by the Soviet military.

When the Moscow expansion goes live property owners will most likely get a break from robberies as most players will be busy with new jobs and gobbling up the new loot rewards. Personally I am looking forward to the expansion. Mafia Wars was starting to get boring doing the same thing over and over. The new expansion will breathe some life into the game for me. I hope that you all enjoy it as well.