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[callforjudgement]

I'm thinking 6VT 1Cop 2Goons is still scum sided. Probably quite a bit.

This is interesting because I always thought a 13 player game with 3 goons and one cop was balanced.

I've seen arguments that it is as an Open, although I'm not sure if I agree with that. It very much skews the game because town has to focus on hiding the Cop whilst getting the Cop

results

into the open.

As a Closed game, it's definitely scumsided (not disastrously so – town will win sometimes – but enough so that I wouldn't call it balanced).

[callforjudgement]

Well, if a setup's scumsided here but balanced elsewhere, it could be because they're better at playing town, or it could be because we're better at playing scum. So it's hard to tell anything about the skill level of a site from the balance of setups there.

(This particular setup would need a metagame built around the setup, though; there are sites where having a defined strategy for specific setups is popular, but this isn't one of them, because we tend to discourage setups that would benefit from them. So I can well imagine town doing better in the setup elsewhere.)