The existing rules are all based on Burglars encountering Guards. This rule changes it so that Guards encounter Burglars – but the rest of the ruleset still checks to see if Burglars encounter Guards. As such, it (possibly unintentionally) creates a wording scam in which Encounters don’t meaningfully happen at all. (There’s no rule specifying that Encounters are two-way; Agent A encountering Agent B doesn’t necessarily imply that Agent B encounters Agent A.)

“One guard shouldn’t be able to simultaneously apprehend 5 burglars.” - no “apprehending” is currently happening, though, Burglars can still move around after being encountered.

The Burglars making a clever plan to not be seen at all seems more in keeping with the genre than six Burglars “storming” through the same entrance because if there’s only a single Guard posted there they know that five of them will get through safely.

CoV – I had noticed the issue Kevan pointed out but thought it probably wouldn’t be that much of an issue (given that they can also be caught on the way back out), but perhaps it is enough of a problem to vote against this.