Thoughts on Setup
My favorite setup of all time would have to be the Heroes: Smalltown setup. Along with that, I looked at Adel's, xyl's., SSSB and few other smalltown games and how they turned up. (So while I am happy at RC's scummie suggestion, I do not think this setup deserves one because it borrows heavily from the previous games). A few problems that I observed in each of the games:
- The watcher role was pretty powerful. Scum usually had to take a call between sacrificing one mafia-ite to kill the watcher or take a risk with killing off one of the others. I wanted to make a role which was investigative but not as powerful as the watcher. I added the scenario where self voting didn't count since I could see town asking the lynched person to hammer to help em out. However in all the scenarios I ran, I assumed a person would use it on N1. I did not anticipate someone holding it till N2. I did anticipate the town to try and maximize the sensor role; there were indications that you were moving towards that goal but didn't follow through on it.
- Had to be a day start. (Some of Adel's game were night starts)
- I wanted to have a couple of roles with no night actions. There was a double voter in the setup but reviewers said it might unbalance play so left it out.
Thoughts on Play
- At the end of D1, I thought Starbuck would win the game.
N1 was a very interesting time for me.
- I was sort of surprised at Starbuck's move at redirecting Jack since Jack would know he had been redirected and it would become 1:1 = either Jack or Starbuck is lying and hence scum.
- Magna's roleblock was surprising - I would have probably held it off to see what Jack would have done.
D3
- I'm surprised no-one analyzed why RC claimed when he did. If I was the SK, I would want to be in the background as much as possible. I wouldn't have counter claimed; I would have killed Starbuck in the night.
- I thought a Zang lynch might have happened if the Sensor was a bit more pro-active on it
Overall, I think the scum played it well. They might have been in trouble if D3 hadn't gone as planned.