Geez, the depth of this game. Like a good game of chess, there are basic operating principles governing the openings but then you're quickly into unpredictable tactics that put a higher value on situational awareness and knowledge of general principles. But like chess, I can see that there's also a lot of community knowledge about how to respond to well known lines.
I've been playing vanilla. Do people still play that or is CBM pretty standard? After reading the 300 page manual, I'm concerned that everything I know is wrong (to paraphrase Firesign Theatre).
