[Squirrelloid]

The problems with the VQ are manifold.

She has a really expensive face value, even in CBM.

She basically requires Dom9-10, but her starting dom is 1. (Dom 9 costs 252 points from Dom 1, and its another 63 points for Dom 10)

She's a rainbow, but it costs 30pts/path to actually use it (in CBM, not sure what vanilla is). And of course, any paths are on top of the already insane price.

So what are you paying for? She's immortal, thug quality (not really SC against players), stealthy, and magically diverse - but only if you pay for it! But she can't use all of these attributes at once!

The whole point of rainbows is labwork and research - something you're not going to shell out 100+ pts for just to have the chassis when there are 0 and 10 pt chasses available (CBM, but the discrepancy is even worse in Vanilla because all the relevant chasses are more expensive). So the fact that she can rainbow adds no real value.

You can buy a better SC for less points, even after you factor in the costs associated with developing enough magic to matter after you retire the SC from combat duty.

You can buy immortal pretenders who are cheaper, and have higher starting dom. At least one of which rainbows easier, and one of which 'SC's easier.

And since a pretender *cannot* do everything, you're always going to go with the pretender that's a better buy for what you do want it to do. The VQ is never the better buy, and therefore should never see play. Ok at everything and good at nothing is a recipe for failure.

I mean, even the nations that are given above do far better with other pretender options. You want B/D access? You can get it with a rainbow or a fountain of blood much cheaper than with a VQ.

Basically, you waste a lot of points on a VQ that could be better spent on adding to a pretender that does what you want, or taking better scales.