Which kingdom for Vamp Queen?

[Bonfire]

True she is ridiculously overpriced in vanilla but in cbm she does have a narrow niche. Specifically when you want both an immortal thug and someone to summon national blood summons. eg.

LA Ulm has sanguine heritage for D3B3
A dom 9 VQ with B3D3 only costs 8 points more than a dom 9 B3D3 Lich.

Patala/Bandar Log have summon Dakini for A1B2
A dom 9 VQ with A1D2B2 is 2 points cheaper than a A1D3B2 Lich.
A dom 9 VQ with A1D3B2 is 14 points more expensive than a A1D3B2 Lich.
A dom 9 VQ with A1D3B4 is 18 points cheaper than a A1D3B4 Lich.
You may want to go to B4 to get easy access to blood boosters and summon mandeha.

So in those two cases the cost between a Lich and a VQ are roughly equal and the VQ is cheaper if you go up to blood 4 to get easy access to blood boosters. The VQ also becomes cheaper if you add on other paths either for magic diversity or better combat buffs.

You get higher hit points and protection with the Lich but the VQ gets flying, regeneration, and freespawn vampires which is a fairly even trade off imho.

Now personally I think the value of an immortal thug is questionable at best but if you want an immortal thug with blood access the VQ is not necessarily worse than your other options in cbm.