[DonCorazon]

Not that I have done it, but it seems fairly simple to set up a game on LLamaserver so unless QM is bribing people to start CB games, it seems that the trend to CB is clearly player driven. I definitely enjoy how CB makes pretender selection much more interesting given the expanded viability of builds that otherwise would rarely see the light of day. And since I never memorized the stats or costs of units from plain vanilla, it doesn't impact me too much. Switching from CB to PV can be mildly confusing, but eventually you pick up on the differences. Usually you end up wishing you were in CB so you could do something fun that is too expensive in plain vanilla.

Going back to the OP, I probably muddled a few CB and plain vanilla items in the TC guide I wrote, but for the most part I tried to point out relevant differences.