Official Vanilla vs CBM debate thread

[Squirrelloid]

You're definitely doing it wrong

Lets look at it this way:
a 9 bless costs:
168 starting at 3 path length
224 starting at 2 path length
288 starting at 1 path length
360 starting at 0 path length

3x9 in the *worst case* scenario (all 0 length) = 1080 points

You also need to pay for:
Chassis Cost
Some Dominion (A Dom 1 bless chassis is useless)

Points:
350 starting
+250 imprisoned
+120 per 3 scales sacked (ie, totally sacking a category, 6 categories available)

Max possible points: 720 + 250 + 350 = 1320

1320 (max points) - 1080 (most possibly spent on bless) = 240 for chassis and dominion.

So if you ignore dominion, *every single chassis in the game* can afford a 3x9 blessing by your metric.

Ok, you didn't actually say you made them imprisoned, so you're working with 250 fewer points. But you also aren't factoring in the cost of dominion. So, by your metric:

-Any chassis which costs 0+ points and has no paths can't do it. (off by 10 points). So no Manticore, Wyrm, etc...
-Any chassis with only 1 path at length 1 can be worth up to 62 points and still do it. I'm not sure there is a chassis with only a single length 1 path that's worth more than 50 points...
-Any chassis with only 1 path at length 2 can be worth up to 126 points and still do it (covers every single chassis in the game with only a single length 2 path)
-Any chassis with 2 paths at length 1 can be worth up to 134 points (covers every single chassis in the game with 2 paths at length 1 iirc)
-Any chassis with 2 paths at 2/1 can be worth up to 198 points and still do it, so even the VQ can do it!

Any chassis with more than 2 paths or better than 2/1 path depth can do it.

That's all just mathematical certainty.

Of course, the main reason you're doing it wrong is you're not buying *survivable* dominion, much less reasonable dominion for running a bless strategy off of. Dominion is important because it limits how many of those sacred troops you can actually buy, after all. Once you factor in dominion, the frost father looks much worse because he starts at dominion 1. All those titans start at Dominion 3 and sometimes 4.

You're also taking negative scales over imprisonment, which is really weird, since everyone imprisons pretenders carrying a big bless.