[Vicious Love]

This is a bit of a delayed response but, since no one else seems inclined to do so, I've gotta commend Illwinter on the changes made to the VQ. I positively love the new Version. She can still be made into a proper, nigh unvanquishable SC, but point costs are so prohibitive that both serial castling and dominion pushing are much, much less viable.
More importantly, relying on a VQ SC at the expense of your ability to muster or summon a proper army means there's very little you can do against a massive enemy stack marching towards your capitol, particularly if they are equipped with necromancers(Scripted to wither bones/dust to dust) or flyers(Particularly Caelians, elementals, angels, and others with magical/anti undead weapons)
Choose not to rely on a high-end SC strategy, though, and you've got a great pretender in the VQ. She still makes for a cost-effective, recuperating lower-end SC, she's still a spectacular raider, who gets to choose her own battles and achieves superb results even with relatively low path levels, she's still a better expendable defense mechanism than the Lich ever was(And she doesn't even have to teleport to get to the battlefield on time), and she's a superb addition to any army, even if she's no longer an army in her own right. I mean, a 0 encumbrance stealthy regenerating ethereal flying immortal with great combat stats and a life draining attack, how could you not find a use for that? She can fill a variety of roles, none of which really overlap those of any other SC, she has balanced strengths and weaknesses, and she gets the coolest titles.
Two thumbs up. They shoulda been up a few weeks ago, but I always assumed someone else would beat me to it.