Declare War on Your Enemies

Zynga announced a new feature called Declare War on a Mafia Wars Blog post titled Declare War Against Your Enemies.
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From reading the article above, it looks like this feature will be very similar to the old war feature but with a few key differences. War will now be declared on enemies instead of friends. We can declare one war every 16 hours instead of every 5 hours. Helper rewards will still be available to pass out to friends who helped you win a war but there are going to be 16 different items instead of the one crappy item chosen by Zynga. As of tonight that reward was a Pair of Pet Tigers (28/12). The 16 items are listed below.

Item	Attack	Defense	Type	Rarity
Cañonazo	42	22	Weapon	Common
Big Bad Wolf	42	25	Weapon	Common
Tanto	43	28	Weapon	Common
String of Firecrackers	33	46	Weapon	Common
Raed Armored Sedan	30	47	Vehicle	Common
Deadly Impression	28	47	Vehicle	Common
Cataclysmic*	53	26	Vehicle	Uncommon
Savanna Baboon*	25	54	Animal	Uncommon
Snapping Turtle*	56	25	Animal	Uncommon
Duster*	27	56	Armor	Uncommon
Spiked Baton*	58	28	Weapon	Uncommon
Armored Biker Boots*	27	59	Armor	Uncommon
Contender*	33	63	Vehicle	Rare
Galapagos Hawk*	64	32	Animal	Rare
Growler*	33	65	Vehicle	Rare
Hack N Slash*	65	35	Weapon	Rare

For now when you click on it the new Declare War Tab, you get a message telling you it's currently unavailable but will be in the near future. I doubt many will miss the war feature during the time it takes to get it going.

A new achievement called Warlord has also been added to our profile page. To get it, we have to get all 16 of the War Rewards listed above.

Al Catraz, Super Moderator, started a Zynga Forum Board discussion thread titled War being Updated Tonight!!.

Bmaniac, Mafia Wars Team Member, stops by to answer some questions. Players who have not yet received The Veterans achievement need not worry. Helping in wars declared on enemies will still count and we can declare war on any enemy profile from where ever it's listed.

One player on this discussion thread posted the following image of what he gets when he clicks on the Declare War Tab.

My friend Mr. Sim y0 posted that he already got the Warlord Achievement Badge! I think he was just messing around with the Forum Board posters as Bmaniac states "it's currently off for everyone".